Kitchen renovation in Wandsworth
Kitchen replacement and open-plan reconfiguration, including structural openings.
The Southfields kitchen project is typically a side-return infill combined with removing the wall to the dining room — a well-understood job on that stock with predictable structure. In the Tonsleys the kitchen is usually a small rear addition with no scope to widen, so the work is about making a small room function properly rather than opening it up: better storage, better light, and levelling the inevitable step down to the back door.
The properties we see in Wandsworth
The Tonsleys are 1850s–1870s two-up two-down cottages: solid-walled, almost no floor void, and with lath-and-plaster ceilings, which makes them the most difficult properties on our patch to run services through. Southfields is a large 1900s grid of substantial Edwardian houses, mostly intact as family homes, with generous voids and logical layouts — much easier to work in. Earlsfield is smaller Victorian terrace, heavily converted to flats. The riverside developments are post-2010 with three-phase supplies, heat networks and management companies.
Planning in Wandsworth
Wandsworth is a comparatively permissive authority, and much of the Southfields and Earlsfield stock retains permitted development rights. Conservation areas apply around Wandsworth Common and parts of the Tonsleys. Riverside apartment blocks bring lease and management-company consent into play, and several require a permit to work and out-of-hours restrictions that materially affect the programme.
What kitchens involves
A full kitchen renovation in Fulham is £25,000–£70,000 including units, appliances, and all building work. Around half of that is builder's work — moving services, structural openings, floors and plastering — which is the part people underestimate when comparing showroom quotes.
Consider this if
- The kitchen is a closed-off galley you want opened up
- You are removing a wall between kitchen and dining room
- Appliances and services need relocating, not just replacing
- The floor level steps down into a back addition
- You are fitting a kitchen supplied by a showroom and need a builder
- The kitchen is part of a wider extension project
What's included
- Structural opening with steel beam, designed and building-control signed off
- All services relocated — gas, water, waste, power, extraction
- Floor levelling across the old back-addition step
- Plastering, decoration and floor finishes
- Installation of your chosen kitchen, or supply through our suppliers
- Electrical certification and gas safety certificate
The standard we build to
Structural openings designed by an engineer and inspected by building control; electrical work certified under Part P; gas connections by a Gas Safe registered engineer.
For the full write-up on kitchens — costs, timescales, certification and the questions people ask most — see our kitchen renovation page. The prices and standards are the same wherever we work.
| Guide range | £25,000 |
| Typical duration | 4–8 weeks |
| Planning | London Borough of Wandsworth |
Guide ranges for budgeting, excluding VAT and professional fees. We quote a fixed price after a site visit.
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