A fitted wardrobe is assumed to be furniture screwed to a wall, and in a Prestonpans bedroom it turns out to be a piece of the wall that happens to hold clothes.
Key Takeaways From This Article
- The two recesses either side of a chimney breast are rarely the same depth, so the run is built to both.
- The room is measured at three heights, floor fall is checked, and the access route is walked before anything is cut.
- Carcasses and doors are built and sprayed off site, so fitting is a day or two with floor protection down first.
- Under a slope the rails go high and the drawers go low, and the roof line decides the interior.
- What the quote settles is the whole scope, from survey to the last adjusted door.
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Bespoke Fitted Wardrobes
The assumption is that a fitted wardrobe is a wardrobe that happens to be screwed to the wall. Once you are inside a Prestonpans bedroom it turns out to be the opposite: it is a piece of the wall that happens to hold clothes, and that is why it fits where furniture will not.
The town’s family housing is mostly two storey semi detached, with single storey semi detached cottages and Victorian tenement flats on New Street. All three give you the same shape upstairs. A chimney breast on one wall, a recess either side, and rarely the same depth on both because one side usually carries a flue. Matched shop bought units sit proud on one wall and leave a shadow gap on the other. A built run takes both depths, the face frames are made to one line, and the wall reads flat from the door.
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Installation Process and Lead Times
What is included is the whole thing, and that is what the quote settles.
Survey
The room is measured at three heights and both recess depths, floor fall is checked across the run, and the access route is walked from the front door.
Drawing
You get a drawing back with the sizes on it and the interior laid out. Nothing is cut until you have agreed it, which is when a change costs nothing.
Workshop and fitting
Carcasses, doors and drawers are built and sprayed off site, flatted between coats and left to cure. Fitting is a day or two with floor protection down first. It is the same sequence behind a job with the joinery company in Prestonpans. Nothing is subbed out at any stage.
Bedroom, Alcove, and Sloping-Space Solutions in Prestonpans
The single storey cottages here are the awkward ones, because the bedrooms sit partly in the roof and the useful height runs out before the useful floor does.
Under a slope, hanging rails go at the high side and drawers under the low side. Below about one metre four hundred of headroom a rail is unusable and a drawer bank is not, so the height where the roof line crosses the run decides the interior. In the tenement flats on New Street the ceilings are high and the recesses are deep, which suits a full height run with a separate upper box. In the 1962 Cuthill housing the bedrooms are squarer and shallower, so the run usually goes on the wall opposite the door. The same reading is applied to wardrobes fitting across Tranent.
Materials, Craftsmanship, and Manufacturing
What you are paying for is in the carcass, and the carcass is the part nobody photographs.
Eighteen millimetre board, dowelled joints, glue blocks at the corners. Doors are hand painted MDF where a shaker profile is wanted, because it holds an arris and stays flat through a heating season, or veneered where the grain matters, with the figure running through the run rather than door by door. Hinges are chosen for leaf weight and runners for load rather than width. Fixings follow the wall: resin anchors into stone, frame fixings into block, and in a tenement a check for a party wall before anything is drilled. The specification is identical to fitted wardrobes in Elphinstone.
Made-to-Measure Design and Storage Layouts
Most people ask for hanging space and then find they needed shelves, so the layout is drawn from what actually goes in.
Long hanging for coats, double hanging for shirts and folded stacks, drawers where the depth allows, shoes at the shallow end where the headroom runs out. Shelf pins are adjustable, since what a wardrobe holds in its first year is rarely what it holds in its fifth. Interior width is set so a hanger clears the stile without catching, which is a dimension nobody asks about and everybody notices. All of it sits under joiners here rather than being ordered in. The layout follows the contents.
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Fitted Wardrobes in Prestonpans: Your Questions Answered
Will a fitted wardrobe work in a Prestonpans cottage bedroom?
That is where it earns the most. The single storey cottages have bedrooms partly in the roof, so the useful height runs out before the floor does. Rails go at the high side of the slope and drawers under the low side.
What about the tenement flats on New Street?
High ceilings and deep recesses, which suits a full height run with a separate upper box for the things you want out of reach. The one extra check there is for a party wall before anything is drilled.
How much does a fitted wardrobe cost?
It depends on the run length, the door style and the interior, so the figure comes from the survey rather than a price list. You get it in writing and itemised before anything is booked. For the longer answer, see How much does it cost to have wardrobes fitted by a carpenter?.
What is included in the price?
The survey, the drawing, the carcasses, the doors, the interior, the fitting and the making good. Nothing is subbed out and nothing appears later as an extra without you agreeing it first.
Do you take the old wardrobes away?
Yes, they come out and go with us, and floor protection goes down before anything is lifted.
How long is it from first visit to fitted?
The survey and drawing come first and go back to you for approval, then the run is built and sprayed, then fitted. The lead time is confirmed in writing with the quote once the design is settled.
