Service
Kitchen renovation
Replacing a kitchen means opening the part of the house that carries the most services in the smallest area. What is behind the units decides more of the price than the units do.
Contacting Rawdha starts a review, not a project. Site information is not a quotation, offer, contract or binding price; the inquiry may be declined.
A kitchen is a services problem wearing a joinery costume. Water, waste, power, gas where present, extraction and increasingly data all converge in a few square metres, and every one of them was installed to suit the kitchen that is coming out. That is why we survey the services and the substrate before we discuss a door finish — and why a figure produced from a photograph and a room size is a guess rather than a price.
How we work
Proof before promise
Know the scope. Know the price basis. Then we build.
We do not compete on a headline figure or a headline duration. We compete on whether you can see what you are buying before you commit to it.
- Existing condition, recorded. What is physically there, written down at survey.
- Findings, stated. Including the ones nobody wanted, because those are the ones that move the price.
- Scope, defined. Item by item, so that "included" is a document rather than a memory.
- Inclusions, exclusions and assumptions, written. What is in, what is deliberately out, and what is being assumed until something is opened.
- Approval considerations, identified. Which permissions apply to your property and who issues them.
- Price drivers, visible. Measured items, named allowances and stated provisional sums rather than one absorbed rate.
- Construction and hidden work, evidenced. Recorded before it is covered.
- Finished result, against the document it started as.
Scope
What kitchen renovation covers
Scope is set per property. This is the range the service works within, not a fixed inclusion list.
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- RWD-AI-044
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- AI-generated illustration — not a photograph, not project evidence
AI-generated illustration of a renovated space. It is not a photograph, not a Rawdha Alaqsa project and not a record of completed work.
- Strip-out and making good — removing existing units, worktops, appliances, splashbacks and floor finishes, and establishing what condition the walls, floor and services are actually in underneath.
- Services alteration — water supply and waste relocated to the new layout, circuits and sockets reworked to suit the appliance schedule, extraction routed to a real termination rather than a recirculating compromise.
- Joinery — carcasses, fronts, internal fittings, tall units, islands and peninsulas, set out to the surveyed dimensions of the room rather than to a catalogue layout.
- Worktops and splashbacks — templated to the installed carcasses, with cut-outs, junctions, upstands and edge details decided before fabrication rather than on site.
- Appliance integration — fitting to the specific appliance schedule, including the clearances, services and ventilation each appliance actually needs.
- Finishes — floor, wall, ceiling and lighting works within the kitchen and the spaces that read as part of it.
Inclusions, exclusions and cost drivers
What moves the figure
Every item below is priced as a measured item, a named allowance or a stated provisional sum. Nothing is absorbed into a rate and recovered somewhere less visible.
Condition of what is behind the units
Substrate condition, existing waterproofing at the sink run, and whether the walls are flat and square enough to accept a rigid run of carcasses.
How far the services have to move
Keeping the sink and the appliances near their existing service positions is materially cheaper than moving them, and the difference is measurable at survey rather than arguable afterwards.
Specification of joinery and worktop
A named material and a held allowance are different commitments. Where a selection is still open, the allowance is stated on the face of the price.
Extraction route
Whether an external termination already exists, and what has to be done to the structure or facade if it does not.
Appliance schedule
The appliances decide the carcass sizes, the services and the clearances, so the schedule is fixed before the joinery is ordered, not after.
Process
How the work runs, stage by stage
Inquiry review
We read what you have sent, check the property type and the community against what we actually take on, and tell you plainly whether it is work we should be quoting for. An inquiry we should decline is declined here rather than three meetings later.
Site survey and existing-condition record
We attend the property and record what is physically there: service capacity and routes, wet-area construction, substrate condition, structural arrangement, access and waste routes, and whether the household stays in occupation. This record is the input to everything after it.
Findings and defined scope
What the survey found is written down, including the things that were not what anyone assumed. From that, the scope is defined item by item — what is being done, to what, and to what standard.
Price basis: inclusions, exclusions, assumptions
Each item is priced as a measured item, a named allowance or a stated provisional sum. Anything deliberately left out is written as an exclusion. Anything that cannot be known until something is opened up is written as an assumption rather than buried in a rate.
Approval path
We identify which permissions your specific property and scope require and who issues them — authority, master developer, community or utility — and build that route into the programme instead of discovering it during construction.
Mobilisation and protection
Work areas are separated from living areas, routes and finishes that are staying are protected, and the waste route, working hours and service-shutdown windows are agreed before the first tool comes out.
Controlled construction with written changes
Work proceeds against the agreed scope. Anything that departs from it becomes a written instruction stating the scope change, the cost effect and the programme effect, and it is carried out only once you have accepted it.
Hidden-work record
Waterproofing, first-fix services, substrates and anything else about to be concealed is recorded before it is covered, so that what is behind the finish is documented rather than remembered.
Snag list and clearance
We walk the completed work with you, write the snag list down, clear it item by item and record each item as closed rather than treating completion as a verbal agreement.
Handover and documentation
You receive the completion record for the work: the defined scope as built, the written changes, the hidden-work record and the cleared snag list.
Workmanship
What the finished standard looks like
The illustrations below show the type of space and standard of finish this service addresses. They are AI-generated illustrations, not photographs of work we have carried out.
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- RWD-AI-054
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- AI-generated illustration — not a photograph, not project evidence
AI-generated illustration of a renovated space. It is not a photograph, not a Rawdha Alaqsa project and not a record of completed work.
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- RWD-AI-051
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- AI-generated illustration — not a photograph, not project evidence
AI-generated illustration of a renovated space. It is not a photograph, not a Rawdha Alaqsa project and not a record of completed work.
AI-generated illustration These images are AI-generated illustrations of renovated spaces and site activity. They are not photographs, not Rawdha Alaqsa projects and not records of completed work. No client name, project name, address, date or completion claim is attached to them.
Evidence
Published records for this service
Evidence slot pending
No project record is published for this service yet.
A published Rawdha record has to carry the project code, the community and property type, the customer objective, the before condition and findings, the scope with inclusions and exclusions, the approvals, price drivers and changes, the hidden-work and completion record, and exact written publication permission. Until a project completes all of them, this slot stays visibly empty rather than being filled with an anonymous interior.
FAQs
Questions people ask before they write
Can you price a kitchen from a photograph and a room size?
No. The price is decided by the condition of the substrates, the position and capacity of the existing services and how far they have to move — none of which a photograph shows. We survey first and price from what is there.
Where do the materials come from?
Carcasses, fronts, worktops, ironmongery and appliances are specified item by item in the scope document with the material and, where selected, the product named. Where a selection is still open, a stated allowance is carried instead so you can see exactly what is being held for it.
What happens if we change our mind about the doors halfway through?
It becomes a written change stating the scope difference, the cost effect and the programme effect, and it proceeds only once you accept it. Joinery has an ordering lead time, so a change after release costs differently from the same change before it — and the written instruction says which.
How long will a kitchen take?
That depends on the scope, the joinery lead time, the extent of the services alteration and whether any approval applies, so a programme is issued for your specific kitchen once the scope is defined. We do not publish a headline duration, because a duration published before the survey is a marketing number rather than a plan.
Do we need an approval for a kitchen renovation?
It depends on the property and the exact work. A like-for-like replacement usually sits differently from one that moves drainage, alters structure or adds an external extract penetration. We identify which permissions apply to your property during planning.
Can we use the kitchen while it is being renovated?
Not the kitchen itself. What can be arranged is a planned temporary arrangement elsewhere in the home, and the isolation, dust control and service-shutdown windows that make living around the work bearable. That belongs in the scope rather than in a conversation on day one.
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Enquiry
Ask about kitchen renovation for your property
Tell us the community, the property type and what you want the finished space to do. We will tell you whether it is work we should be quoting for, and what a survey would need to establish.
Or email info@rawdhaalaqsa.com.
Contacting Rawdha starts a review, not a project. Site information is not a quotation, offer, contract or binding price; the inquiry may be declined.