Kitchen Fitters Borrowash

Borrowash, just over the Derby boundary

Borrowash lies immediately east of the Derby city boundary, in the Borough of Erewash. It shares a civil parish with Ockbrook, and for most of its history it was the smaller of the two, until it began to grow in the late nineteenth century and overtook its neighbour. The Derby Canal reached the village in 1796 and the railway in 1839; the station closed in 1966, and Spondon is now the nearest place to catch a train. Today the A52 dual carriageway runs between Borrowash and Ockbrook.

St Stephen’s Church on Station Road dates from 1899, and early in the twentieth century red-brick houses were built along Manor Road. The River Derwent runs along the southern side of the parish. Older brick houses, later expansion and a river to the south shape most of what we talk about when pricing a kitchen here.

Our kitchen fitting services in Borrowash

Each of these can be part of a Borrowash kitchen, whether you are fitting units you have bought or starting from a bare room.

• Kitchen unit installation
• Worktops & countertops
• Appliance installation
• Supply and fit
• Fit-only for any supplier
• Plumbing, wiring & tiling

Older red-brick houses

Houses from around 1900 often have suspended timber floors in the ground-floor rooms, sometimes with a concrete floor added in the kitchen at a later date. Before any units go down we check whether the floor is sound, level and ventilated underneath, because a soft joist under a full run of base units and a stone worktop will show itself within months as a gap at the wall. If boards need replacing or the floor needs levelling, it is far cheaper to do it with the room empty.

Rooms in these houses also tend to have a chimney breast that can be turned to advantage: a range cooker set into the recess, or a tall larder unit built into the alcove beside it. Old plaster is often softer and less even than in a newer house, so wall cabinets are fixed back to the masonry rather than trusted to the plaster.

Later homes, kitchen-diners and the Derwent

In the houses built after the older streets, the request we hear most is to merge a small kitchen with the dining room. That usually means a steel beam, so the opening needs building regulations approval before work starts. Once the space is open, a peninsula or a small island often makes more sense than a second full run of units.

The Environment Agency issues flood warnings for the River Derwent at Elvaston Castle Country Park, an area that includes the B5010 towards Borrowash. If your home is on the low side of the village nearer the river, it is worth choosing water-resistant flooring, legs and plinths that can be removed, and appliance connections kept up off the floor.

Our founder, Liam Taylor, has more than ten years in property and joinery. Our joiners handle the units and worktops, and partner electricians, plumbers and tilers come in for their parts of the job under the same quote.

Kitchen fitting questions — Borrowash