Kitchen Fitters Chellaston

Chellaston, on Derby’s southern edge

Chellaston is a suburban village on the southern edge of Derby. It became part of the city in 1968, when its parish was abolished and merged with Derby and neighbouring parishes. It borders Shelton Lock to the north and South Derbyshire to the south, and the A514 runs through it as Derby Road before becoming Swarkestone Road at the High Street crossroads. Beyond the southern outskirts lie the A50 and Swarkestone.

It was once one of the biggest producers of mined alabaster in the country, and the poorer grades were sold as gypsum and carried along the local canals. The site of the old brickworks is now a local nature reserve, and St Peter’s Church, with fifteenth-century origins, was largely rebuilt in 1842.

Our kitchen fitting services in Chellaston

Every Chellaston kitchen draws on some of the services below, from a straight door-and-worktop swap to a full knock-through.

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

Three generations of housing

Chellaston grew steadily between 1880 and 1950, then faster after the war, with houses built around Springfield Road and St Peter’s Road among other places. By the 1990s larger estates had gone up around Sutton Avenue, Maple Drive and Parkway, and around a thousand homes have since been built on the west side, close to the line of the filled-in Derby Canal.

That timeline matters for kitchens. Post-war houses usually have a separate kitchen and dining room, and opening them into one is the most common larger project. Kitchens in the 1990s houses are reaching the end of their first life: doors are tired, hinges have dropped and the worktop has swollen around the sink. A straight swap into the existing layout is often all that is needed, and that is the job where a fit-only service saves most.

In the newest homes the kitchen-diner is already open plan, and owners tend to want to improve on what the developer installed, replacing a standard laminate worktop with quartz, adding an island with power, or adding tall units for storage the original design left out.

How we run a Chellaston kitchen fit

We start with a site visit, measure every wall and check where the water, waste and power come in, because moving a sink across the room on a solid ground floor is a bigger job than it first sounds. The written quote then sets out what is included and how long the fit should take.

Liam Taylor founded the business after more than ten years working in property and joinery. Our joiners fit the units, worktops and panels, while partner electricians, plumbers and tilers handle the trades that need them, so you have one quote and one contact from strip-out to handover.

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