Service

Wardrobes and cabinetry

Fitted joinery is the part of a home where a tolerance of a few millimetres is the difference between built-in and stuck in.

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 wardrobe run made in a workshop has to meet a room that is not perfectly square, walls that are not perfectly flat and a floor that is not perfectly level. Whether the finished job reads as built-in depends entirely on how the survey, the setting out and the scribing allowances were handled before manufacture. That is a documentation problem before it is a craft one.

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 wardrobes and cabinetry covers

Scope is set per property. This is the range the service works within, not a fixed inclusion list.

Walnut tall cabinets with built-in oven and microwave, stone counter.
AI-generated illustration Tall cabinetry with integrated appliances and stone counter.
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  • Fitted wardrobes — hinged and sliding, walk-in and reach-in, with internal configuration set out to what is actually being stored.
  • Storage and utility joinery — laundry, store rooms, understairs, pantry and boot storage.
  • Living and media joinery — media walls, display units, wall panelling and integrated storage.
  • Vanity and washroom joinery — coordinated with the wet-area setting out rather than fitted around it afterwards.
  • Doors, panelling and trims — including the junctions where joinery meets floor, ceiling and wall finishes.
  • Lighting and services integration — power, data and lighting coordinated into the joinery before manufacture rather than surface-mounted after 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.

  1. Room geometry

    Out-of-square walls, uneven floors and out-of-plumb returns all increase scribing, packing and site work. They are measured at survey, so they are priced rather than discovered.

  2. Carcass and front materials

    Board type, edge treatment, finish and hardware grade are specified individually because each of them independently moves the figure.

  3. Internal fit-out

    Drawers, pull-outs, soft-close mechanisms, lighting and internal dividers are priced as items, not absorbed into a per-metre rate.

  4. Services in the joinery

    Any power, data or lighting inside the unit has to be coordinated before the carcasses are cut.

  5. Access for delivery and installation

    Whether the assembled units can physically reach the room decides whether they are built as modules or assembled on site.

Process

How the work runs, stage by stage

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

Television on stone panel above floating cabinet with slatted wood surround and lighting.
AI-generated illustration A media wall with slatted timber surround and integrated lighting.
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AI-generated illustration of a renovated space. It is not a photograph, not a Rawdha Alaqsa project and not a record of completed work.

Worker in uniform adjusting cabinet door hinge with screwdriver, tools on mat.
AI-generated illustration A worker adjusting a cabinet door hinge during installation.
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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.

Read the publication standard →

FAQs

Questions people ask before they write

Is the joinery made to measure or assembled from standard units?

That is a specification decision and it is written down either way, including carcass material, front material, edge treatment, hardware and internal configuration. What we do not do is leave it implied.

Where do the materials and hardware come from?

Each is named in the scope document — board type and finish, edging, hinges, runners and handles. Where a selection is still open, a stated allowance is carried on the face of the price.

What if the wall is not straight?

It rarely is. The survey records the geometry and the scribing allowance is designed in before manufacture. That is why we measure the installed room rather than working from a drawing dimension.

Can we change the internal layout after ordering?

Until the cutting list is released, usually with limited cost effect; after release, the change carries the cost of what has already been made. Either way it is a written instruction stating the cost and programme effect before it proceeds.

How long does fitted joinery take?

The manufacturing lead time dominates, and it depends on the specification and the volume. A programme is issued for your specific scope once the specification is fixed. We do not publish a standard installation window.

What happens on site during installation?

Routes are protected, the units are brought in, set out to the survey lines, levelled, scribed and fixed, then the fronts, internals and any integrated lighting are fitted and adjusted. The adjustment stage is where the doors are aligned, and it is part of the job, not an afterthought.

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Enquiry

Ask about wardrobes and cabinetry 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.

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