Kitchen extensions

Kitchen Extensions in Chislehurst

Kitchen extensions across Chislehurst, on larger houses where the kitchen is usually part of a wider ground floor reconfiguration.

A large open plan kitchen inside a rear extension, with full height black units, an oak slatted splashback, a long island with seating and sliding doors onto the garden, built by LD&C Homes

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Working in BR7

Extending a kitchen
in Chislehurst

Chislehurst is BR7, taking in Chislehurst West, Elmstead, Camden Park and the Bickley side. The houses are larger than in most of the towns we cover and the kitchen job is rarely just a kitchen job.

Here the brief usually starts with the kitchen and ends up covering the back half of the ground floor. A new room, the old kitchen becoming something else, a utility, a boot room and a run of doors onto the garden, all decided together because moving one moves the rest.

The specification tends to be higher too. Bigger openings, more glass and heavier structure over them, which means the engineer is involved earlier and the steel is a bigger part of the price than it is elsewhere.

Larger houses also mean more services to move and more to reinstate. That is not a problem, it is a thing to price properly at the start rather than discover halfway.

What is included

What is in the build
and what is not

A kitchen extension is two jobs that have to be planned as one. We build the room. You buy the kitchen. More on the building side on the main extensions page.

The kitchen itself is not in the build price

Our figure is the construction. The kitchen is bought by you. On a BR7 house the specification is usually higher and the room larger, so that second figure is substantial and it should not be hidden inside a builder's estimate.

The layout is settled before first fix

These jobs move a lot of services. Where the kitchen sits determines the drainage for the utility, the boot room and often a cloakroom as well, and all of it is set out before anything is covered up.

Howdens, and the free design service

We work mostly with Howdens, who design and render at no charge. Clients here often use a specialist supplier instead, which we are equally happy to fit. What matters is that a measured drawing exists early, whoever produced it.

Islands carry services, not just worktop

Chislehurst islands are frequently long enough to hold the hob, a sink and seating at once. Three sets of services in a single run under the floor, and none of them movable once the slab is finished.

Utility rooms come off the same plan

A utility and a boot room together is the usual brief on these houses. Both need drainage and both change the kitchen they open off, so the three rooms are drawn as one exercise rather than in sequence.

We install it, we do not sell it

Any supplier, fitted by our own team, with nothing added to the cost of the goods. Once a design is finished we give an accurate provisional cost for fitting, and on a room this size that number is worth knowing early.

Recent kitchens

Completed Projects

An open plan kitchen extension in the evening, with cream shaker units, a stone island with seating and full width sliding doors onto the garden, built by LD&C Homes — / Kitchen extensionIsland and sliding doors

A wide open plan kitchen extension with grey gloss full height units, a long stone island with seating and glazing along the garden wall, built by LD&C Homes — / Kitchen extensionFull height units and island

A kitchen extension with the original rear wall removed and the steel beam left exposed and painted, navy units, a range cooker and an island, built by LD&C Homes — / Kitchen extensionExposed steel over the opening

Typical project £50,000 to £140,000

What it costs

Straight answers
on price

£50,000 to £140,000The build, typical kitchen extension
Supplied by youUnits, worktops and appliances
FreeSite survey and itemised quote

On a Chislehurst house the kitchen usually arrives with the rest of the ground floor attached, which is why these jobs sit at the upper end. The kitchen itself is bought by you, often from a specialist supplier, and we give a provisional fitting cost once the design is settled. More on costs

Local detail

What we run into
on Chislehurst kitchens

Four things that come up often enough on these streets to be worth saying before you ask.

The kitchen is usually part of a bigger job

On a Chislehurst house the kitchen extension normally arrives with a reconfigured ground floor attached to it. That is worth planning as one project rather than two, because the drainage, the circuits and the structure all get decided once.

Bigger openings mean heavier structure

Wide glazing and long spans need more steel and sometimes more than one beam, with pad stones and foundations to suit. The engineer's calculations drive the price on these jobs more than the finishes do, and they come early.

Conservation area status changes what is allowed

If the house sits within a conservation area, permitted development rights are more limited and materials can be conditioned. Your architect confirms whether yours is affected before anything is designed, and the answer changes the drawings rather than the build.

Applications go to Bromley Council

Chislehurst sits with Bromley Council. On the larger houses here a full application is the norm rather than the exception, and the statutory determination period for a householder application is eight weeks from validation.

We also build house extensions, loft conversions, garage conversions and chalet conversions in Chislehurst. For everything we do in the town, see builder in Chislehurst.

Next step

Get a price for
your kitchen extension

Tell us roughly what you have in mind and we will come to the house in Chislehurst, measure up and talk through what is possible. The survey is free, the quote is itemised, and no deposit is taken at any point.

Request a quote

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