Concept site. Built for DCL Kitchens as a proposal, not published by them. The prices, lead times and guarantee are illustrative and marked as such; the photographs came off the current site.

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How your kitchen gets made

Survey, drawing, price, changes, workshop, fitting, and a visit afterwards to put right whatever has moved. Nothing gets cut until you have signed a drawing with real dimensions on it.

The seven stages

Roughly two months from first visit to finished kitchen, though the design stage takes as long as you need it to.

  1. We come and measure
    An hour or two at your house. We measure the room as it actually is, including the out-of-square corner, the boxed-in soil pipe and the floor that falls 15mm from one end to the other. We also look at where the services are, because moving a waste pipe is a real cost.Free, no obligation, and we will tell you on the day if we think a modular kitchen would suit you better.
  2. You get a drawing and a price
    A plan and elevations with dimensions, and a price with the cabinetry, worktops, appliances and fitting on separate lines so you can see what each part costs and take any of them out.Usually within a week of the survey.
  3. We change it until it is right
    Move the larder, swap the hob to the island, decide the bin drawer is in the wrong place. This is the cheap place to do all of that. There is no limit on revisions and no charge for them.
  4. You sign the drawing, we order the materials
    The signed drawing is the contract for what gets made. Timber and sheet material are ordered against it and the job goes in the workshop diary.30% deposit at this point.
  5. We build it
    Cut, assemble, machine, spray, dry fit. Your kitchen is stood up complete in the workshop and checked before it goes anywhere.Six to eight weeks depending on the finish. Hand-painted in-frame takes the longest.
  6. We fit it
    Old kitchen out and gone, new one in, levelled and scribed to your walls. Worktops templated once the units are set, then fitted when they come back from the cutters. Appliances in, silicone on, site cleared.Around a fortnight, with the worktop gap in the middle.
  7. We come back
    Six weeks or so later, once the house has been lived in and the doors have settled. Hinges adjusted, anything that has marked touched in.Guarantee: ten years on cabinetry, two years on moving parts.
A light oak kitchen with dark granite worktops and a tiled splashback

Why the design stage is the one that matters

People assume the workshop is where a kitchen is won or lost. It is not. A good joiner will build accurately from a bad drawing and you will end up with a beautifully made kitchen that is wrong.

The mistakes that ruin a kitchen are all design ones: a bin in the wrong cupboard so you cross the room with a handful of peelings, an oven at a height that means bending over a hot shelf, a fridge door that opens into the walkway, an island 800mm from the run so two people cannot pass.

None of those show up in a photograph. All of them show up the first week you cook in it. So we spend the time there, and we would rather redraw a plan four times than have you live with the third one.

Questions about the process

The ones that come up before people commit.

Do I have to pay for the design?

No. The survey, the drawings and however many revisions it takes are free and there is nothing to sign until you order.

We do ask that you are reasonably serious about doing the work, because a survey is a couple of hours of somebody’s day.

Can I see a drawing before I commit?

You get a plan and elevations with real dimensions on them, plus an itemised price, before you are asked for anything. If you take that away and get someone else to quote against it, that is your right.

What if I change my mind halfway through?

Before we cut, change whatever you like, as many times as you like. That is what the design stage is for and it costs nothing.

After we cut, a change means remaking a component and you pay for it. We will always tell you what it costs before we do it.

Will I be without a kitchen for long?

Around a fortnight for a typical kitchen, with the first two or three days being the messy part while the old one comes out.

Worktops add a gap: stone is templated once the units are level and comes back cut about a week later, so you get a working kitchen with a temporary top for a few days. Most people put the kettle and the microwave in the dining room and live with it.

Book the first stage

It starts with somebody standing in your kitchen with a tape measure. That part is free and you are not committing to anything by having it done.

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The workshop

Unit 1 & 2, Bootham Lane Industrial Estate, Bootham Lane
Dunscroft, Doncaster
South Yorkshire DN7 4JU

Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm
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