We’re rated 5.0 from 62 reviews under East Lothian Trading Standards Trusted Trader, and most of that record was earned in houses like the ones round Duries Park.
What This Article Covers
- The room gets surveyed before anything's ordered, including wall flatness, floor level and where the stack runs.
- Waste runs and circuits go in first, and anything a tiler will cover is signed off before it disappears.
- If you've had a plan drawn elsewhere we'll check it against the room and tell you what won't build.
- One team holds the sequence from strip out to handover, and the joinery isn't subcontracted.
George Herkes & Son Joinery has worked across East Lothian since 1989, holds East Lothian Trading Standards Trusted Trader accreditation and is rated 5.0 from 62 reviews, so the bespoke joinery company in Elphinstone fitting your kitchen is the same one that surveyed it.
Send George the room sizes and the kitchen you’re looking at and he’ll come and survey it.
Full Kitchen Installation
We’re rated 5.0 from 62 reviews under East Lothian Trading Standards Trusted Trader, and most of that comes from kitchens in houses like the ones round Duries Park and Cinderhall Place. It’s a mid-century council-built plan, mostly, and the services were placed when the room was drawn.
That’s why we survey before anything’s ordered. We take wall flatness, floor level, the stack position, the incoming main and where the meter sits. Then the plan gets drawn to what’s actually there. Appliance gaps come off the appliances you’ve bought, not off a catalogue page. Fillers land where you don’t look at them.
The strip out comes before anything new is cut in, and that’s deliberate. Old chases, redundant pipework and plaster that’s only held on by the wall units all turn up at that stage. Anything we find gets priced and agreed with you before it’s covered, so nothing disappears behind a new carcass without you knowing it’s there. It’s the least glamorous day of the job and it’s the one that decides whether the rest runs to plan.
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Plumbing, Electrics and Tiling in Elphinstone
Moving a sink is a drainage question first. In the older village stock the fall you’ve got to play with is limited, so an island sink that looks fine on a plan can be undeliverable in the room.
We check that at survey. Waste runs, feeds and the circuits for sockets, hob and oven all go in before the units, and anything a tiler or plasterer will cover gets signed off first. Splashbacks are set out from the worktop so the cut tile lands low where it’s least visible. It’s the same order of work we use on garage conversion companies in Elphinstone jobs. Services first, finishes last.
Tiling gets its own attention in a small kitchen. A splashback started at the wrong height leaves a sliver cut where the wall units land, and you’ll see it every time you stand at the sink. We set out from the worktop and work up, so the awkward cut ends up at the cabinet line rather than in the middle of a wall.
Kitchen Design and Planning
Do you need a designer for a kitchen in a house this size? Not usually, because the room is doing most of the deciding for you. The wall lengths, the window position and the door swing narrow the options down before anyone opens a planner.
What we do instead is set out the work triangle against what the room allows, then check every drawer and door against the swing of the ones beside it. Corner units get looked at hardest, since that’s where clearance is lost. If you’ve had a plan drawn elsewhere we’ll check it against the room and tell you what won’t build, which is the same service behind a quote on kitchen installers in Tranent. You’ll know before you buy.
Project Management and Trade Coordination
The thing that goes wrong on a kitchen isn’t one trade doing bad work. It’s four trades arriving in the wrong order with nobody holding the sequence.
One team runs it here from strip out to handover. The joinery, the fitting and the finishing are ours and don’t get subbed out. Where a specialist’s needed the dates are set here and held, and you’re told the sequence before it starts and told again if it changes. We run a kitchen installation service in Fala the same way. Same team, same order, start to finish.
Waste is cleared as we go rather than stacked in the garden, and the room’s left swept at the end of each day. You’ll be without a working kitchen for part of it, and we’ll tell you which part at quote stage rather than letting you find out. Nobody enjoys that week. It’s shorter when somebody’s holding the order of work.
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Common Questions About Kitchen Fitters in Elphinstone
Do you work in the Duries Park and Cinderhall Place houses?
Regularly. They're mid-century council-built plans with the services placed when the room was drawn, so the survey matters more than the catalogue. We take the stack position, the main and the meter before anything's ordered.
Can you move the sink in an Elphinstone kitchen?
It depends on the drainage rather than the plumbing. The fall you've got to work with in the older village stock is limited, so we check it at survey and tell you what's deliverable before you commit to a layout.
Will you fit a kitchen I've bought myself?
Yes, and we'll check the plan against the room first. Where a run leaves an awkward end we replace the filler with a purpose made panel from the workshop rather than leaving a gap.
Who does the plumbing and the electrics?
One team holds the sequence from strip out to handover. The joinery, the fitting and the finishing are ours and aren't subbed out, and where a specialist is needed the dates are set here and held.
