Kitchen and Bathroom Fitters in Horley (RH6)
In a modern Horley house the kitchen is rarely falling apart — it is just in the wrong shape. Most of the work here is about layout and services rather than putting right decades of neglect.
Layout, not repair
Estate houses were built to a standard plan, and the kitchen is usually a self-contained room of modest size next to a dining area, with a stud wall between them.
That wall is often not load-bearing, which makes opening the two together a far simpler job than on older housing — though it should be checked rather than assumed, because on some plans it does carry load. The bigger constraints tend to be where the services already are: the boiler position, the soil stack and the run to the drain outside. Moving a kitchen to the other side of the room is easy in principle and can be surprisingly expensive in practice, so it is worth pricing the layout options before settling on one.
The older houses near the centre
The 1930s streets closer to the middle of Horley behave like that stock does everywhere: a small kitchen at the back, a load-bearing wall to the dining room, wiring that has been added to, and waste runs laid for a much smaller kitchen. There the structural work and the services are the job and the units are the easy part. Bathrooms in both kinds of house come down to the same things — the floor, and the fall on the waste.
Trades in the right order
A kitchen is several trades in sequence.
Our own team does the building work and we bring in and manage the specialists, so each turns up when the job is actually ready.
More in Horley
Everything we do in Horley is on the Horley area sheet, and the full detail of how we approach this trade is on the bathrooms & kitchens page.
Common questions
Q.01Is the wall between my kitchen and dining room load-bearing?
On many modern estate houses it is a stud wall and not load-bearing, which makes opening up straightforward. It should still be checked rather than assumed — some plans do carry load there.
Q.02Can I move the kitchen to the other side of the room?
Usually, but the cost depends on where the soil stack, the drain run and the boiler are. We price the options so you can see what the move actually costs.
Q.03Do you supply the units?
Either way. Some customers buy their own and have us do everything else; others want supply and fit as one job.
Q.04Do you do bathrooms too?
Yes, same team — and in both the modern and the older stock it comes down to the floor and the fall on the waste.
Q.05Can I add an en suite to a modern estate house?
Generally yes, and it is common work in RH6. The cost depends almost entirely on how far the new room is from the existing soil stack — close to it is straightforward, the other side of the house considerably less so. We price the options.
Thinking about bathrooms & kitchens in Horley?
Tell us what you are planning. We come out, look at the job properly and give you a price for it.