A kitchen removal takes the old kitchen out in the right order, so the room is empty, swept and safe when the fitter arrives to start the new one.
What happens in a kitchen removal?
The gas, water and electrics are disconnected and capped first, by someone qualified for each. Then the wall units come down, the worktops and sink come out, and the base units and appliances follow, with the tiles if they are going. Complete Waste Management carries it all out, loads it and sweeps the room.
Before anything comes off
Nothing is unscrewed until the services are safe. The hob or the cooker, the sink, the dishwasher and the washing machine are all joined to something, whether that is gas, water, a waste pipe or the electrics, and often more than one of them. Each is disconnected and capped by whoever is qualified for it: a gas engineer for the gas, a plumber for the water and an electrician for anything wired in. We take out what is left once it is safe. Most people already have a plumber or an electrician booked for the new kitchen, and asking them to cap the old one on their first visit is usually the simplest way to do it. In the kitchen in the photograph the boiler hangs on the wall above the worktop, so it stays where it is and the units around it come away by hand. If a boiler or a radiator is moving with the new layout, that is a job for your heating engineer and not part of the strip out, and it is worth saying so when you book, so that nothing on the day surprises anyone.
The order it comes out
The wall units come down first, so nothing heavy is lifted over a worktop that is about to go. Then the worktops and the sink, then the base units and the plinths, then the cooker, the fridge and the washing machine.
The wall tiles come off last if they are going, and the floor after them if you said so at the start.
Everything is carried out through the house and loaded as it comes off, so the room never fills up with the old kitchen while the new one waits on the drive.
A bathroom as well
Plenty of kitchen removals come with a bathroom that is going too. The bath, the basin, the toilet, the tiles and the floor come out the same way once the water is off, and a photo of each room gets one written price for both.
What it leaves
The room is left empty and swept with the services capped, ready for the fitter to measure up. What can be recycled is recycled, and the old fridge goes for proper treatment rather than in with the rest.
Send a photo on WhatsApp to 07523 280964 of the kitchen as it is now, with the cupboard doors open if you can, and the price comes back in writing before anything is booked. Nothing is paid until the job is done. What a strip out covers is on our kitchen strip out page.
