Kitchen makeovers, servicing and renovation in Wellington

Ready to renovate the busiest space in your house? Kitchens contain a wide range of applicances and materials, and some of these can require an expert for installation. Jobs have to be done in a certain order, which means that the schedules of your tradespeople must be coordinated to keep the work flowing. All in all, your kitchen renovation needs careful planning.

How to plan renovating your kitchen

Your kitchen renovation will likely involve a good number of tradespeople, including:

• Builder
• Electrician
• Cabinetmaker
• Benchtop installer
• Floorer
• Tiler
• Plasterer
• Painter
• Architect or draughtsperson

Just facing this list can be a lot, especially when you don’t know which tradespeople will be best for your job. It’s just as well that we can scope out your kitchen renovation from start to finish, including finding people to do all of the sub-trade work. Talk to us and we’ll work out who needs to be on your team.

On the other hand, if you’ve already got quality sub-tradespeople you want to use, we’re happy to work with them. The more good people we can add to our network of sub-tradies, the more we can make sure that good people do your job.

Let us help with your kitchen makeover

Within the larger project of your kitchen renovation, kitchen plumbing happens in three stages.

1. Decommission and demolition: Our first job is to decommission your existing plumbing fixtures and kitchen appliances, and cap off any associated pipe work so that we can get your water back on.

If any old piping needs to be removed we’ll do that at the same time.

When decommissioning is complete, your worksite is ready for your sparkie to decommission old wiring, or for your builder to remove old cabinetry.

2. Pre-pipe: Here we modify existing pipes in the wall or under the floor, install any new pipes you need, and remove any old pipes that won’t be part of your new kitchen.

When pre-pipe is complete all of the pipes that will supply water (and gas if required) to your kitchen appliances and fixtures are in place.

If building consent applies to your job, this is when Council will do an inspection and sign off on the work, before you go to the next stage.

2. Finishing and fit-off: Once the floors and walls have been covered and finished, we install your bathroom fixtures.

At this point Council may need to do another inspection and sign off on the work again.

Is your job more complicated than it looks?

Imagine you want to remove a wall from your kitchen so that you can open it up to your lounge. Simple huh?

What’s in that wall? Maybe not just your water pipes. Think about insulation, electrical wiring and data cabling, and whether the wall is holding up something heavy. If it is, you may need a builder and/or an engineer’s help to get the result you want.

Putting in a new kitchen island with a sink and a waste disposal is another surprisingly complicated job. Suddenly you need new hot and cold water pipes, waste water and power. It gets even more interesting when the house sits on a concrete slab, or has limited under-floor access.

Don’t worry, almost everything is possible! We can generally find a way to get you what you want.

Plan ahead to avoid long wait times

You might be surprised at how long you’ll need to wait before we can do your job. It could be a week or three, a couple of months, or occasionally even longer.

Wait time isn’t just about our availability. All of your tradespeople need to be available at the right time to get your job done with minimal disruption to you. The last thing you want is a long wait with a half-done kitchen!

Kitchen renovation challenge resolved

Darren and Amanda wanted to upgrade their kitchen and add some new walls and ceilings. The problem was that some existing water pipes were right where the proposed new structures needed to be.

If we’d disconnected these pipes the whole family would have been without hot and cold water for several weeks, and we couldn’t have that. The answer was to put temporary piping in place while the kitchen cabinetry, walls and ceilings were built. At the same time we put in a water feed for the new fridge’s built-in water filter and icemaker.

Once other parts of the renovation were further advanced we visited again. Now we could decommission the old kitchen services, and complete the pre-pipe stage for the new kitchen.

Once the flooring and new cabinetry were in place, we came back to fit the new kitchen sink, taps, fridge and dishwasher.

Darren and Amanda love their new kitchen and are very happy with our work

“We would thoroughly recommend these guys. Very pleasant, did a great job. 🙂 Very easy to deal with and coped when our plans changed due to another tradesperson.” – Amanda