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Long Ditton's Victorian and Edwardian houses were built with the kitchen as an afterthought, a modest scullery at the back. A century on, the kitchen has become the room these houses are bought for, and moving it into a rear extension or side return is the defining local project. Every one of those moves runs on pipework, and pipework is our trade.
The classic Long Ditton renovation pushes the kitchen backwards or sideways into new space: a side return infill, a rear extension, or both wrapped around the old outrigger. The design magazines cover the glazing and the crittall doors. What they skip is that the kitchen's entire service map has to be rebuilt: new supply runs from the front of the house, a drain connection that respects the existing runs, and a gas route to wherever the hob lands.
That rebuild is where we come in, and coming in early is the difference between a layout you chose and a layout the drains chose for you. We review extension plans against the real drainage before anything is set in concrete, sometimes literally.
Extension kitchens are joint projects. The builder owns the shell; we own the services inside it. Our first fix slots between slab and screed, supplies and wastes for islands are cast into the floor at the right stage, and underfloor heating loops are mapped against the waste routes before either goes down. Then we return once the shell closes to fit the kitchen and bring each appliance live.
We have run this sequence with builders across the Dittons and the Surbiton borders enough times that the handoffs are smooth. You get one plumbing and fitting firm across the whole timeline instead of a different van every phase.
While the new kitchen takes shape, the old house's plumbing deserves attention too. Long Ditton's period homes carry supply runs extended and re-extended across a century, often scaled narrow by Surrey's hard water. A renovation is the affordable moment to renew tired pipe, remove dead runs and leave the whole system isolatable and mapped.
We include scale protection as a priced option on every job. On a kitchen with a boiling tap and quality appliances, it usually pays for itself well inside the appliances' warranty periods.
Free survey, fixed written quote, one point of contact from strip-out to the final appliance test. All gas work is done by Gas Safe registered engineers carrying ID cards, tested and certified. Anything unexpected is priced with you before we proceed.
A Energy Solutions holds a 10 out of 10 rating on Checkatrade across more than 68 verified reviews with a 100% recommendation rate, much of it earned on period houses like Long Ditton's.
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Kitchen Renovation in Long Ditton, answered by our Gas Safe registered team.
A Energy Solutions fits kitchens across Long Ditton and the Dittons generally, a short trip from our Weybridge base. We handle full renovations and extension kitchens, with the plumbing and gas done in-house by our own engineers.
Yes, extension kitchens are the core of our Long Ditton work, and the key is involving us before the slab goes down. Supplies, wastes and any island services are designed into the new floor, coordinated with your builder's programme. Retrofitting services into a finished extension is the expensive version of the same job.
Before anything is ordered or poured, ideally at the same time as the builder prices the shell. We check the proposed kitchen layout against the real drain runs and flag anything unworkable while it is still a drawing. That one early visit has saved several Long Ditton projects from concrete-stage surprises.
Costs range widely because Long Ditton projects run from in-room refits to full extension kitchens. Either way the process is the same: free survey, fixed written quote, assumptions listed. The agreed figure is the invoiced figure.
In an extension, almost always, because the services are cast into the new floor at build stage. In the existing footprint it depends on achieving a continuous waste fall under a period house's floors, which we confirm at survey. Island gas hobs get their run designed and certified by our Gas Safe registered engineers.
Often yes, because Victorian and Edwardian supply runs in Long Ditton have usually been extended for a century and scaled narrow in hard water. Renewing them while floors are up and walls are open costs a fraction of doing it later. We recommend from survey evidence and show you why.
Gas Safe registered engineers, employed by us and carrying ID cards, handle every gas alteration: hob moves, range supplies and capping redundant points, all tested and certified. It is the same legal standard we work to as a boiler company. Nobody unregistered touches gas on our jobs.
The kitchen phases add roughly two to three weeks around the builder's shell programme: first fix early, then installation and testing once the room is weathertight and boarded. In-room refits without structural work run one to two weeks. We map the combined timeline with your builder.
Yes, apart from short planned shut-offs when we tie into supplies, always flagged the day before. The existing kitchen usually stays functional until the new one is close to ready on extension projects, which spares you weeks of washing up in the bath.
Yes, the water here is hard as it is across Surrey, and scale is the main reason boiling taps and dishwashers age early. A softener fitted during the renovation protects the whole kitchen at the lowest install cost it will ever have. It is quoted as an option on every job.
A Energy Solutions is rated 10 out of 10 on Checkatrade with over 68 verified reviews and a 100% recommendation rate, publicly readable. Much of that history is period property work around this corner of Surrey. We are fully insured and happy to show certification at the survey.
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Show us the plans before the slab goes down and we will make sure the drains agree with the design. Free survey, fixed written quote, Gas Safe engineers throughout. Call 07472 777884.
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