Kestrel Close, Skipton — island kitchen
5 800 mm runIn-frame tulipwoodHague blue, sprayed 21 doors5 weeks on siteFitted Feb 2026
Hollowfield Kitchens Kitchen fitting and joinery, Skipton Rev C · 2026
Ninety-four kitchens. All within twenty miles.
- Fitted since 2019
- 68 kitchens
- Radius from Skipton
- 20 miles
- Honest price band
- from £18,400 inc. VAT
Elevation A — north wall Scale 1:20 @ A1 Kestrel Close, Skipton
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- Job
- HK/2611
- Scale
- 1:20 @ A1
- Sheet
- 01 / 13
- Date
- 23.08.26
- Drawn by
- T. Vane · Hollowfield Kitchens, Skipton
Sheet 02 / 13The workTwenty-one jobs, 2025–26
Six of last year's jobs, measured and drawn in full.
Twenty-one jobs went through the workshop in 2025–26; these are six of them, drawn the way they were built. Alongside each one: where it is, what it is made of, how long the run is, and how many weeks we were in the house.
6 jobs shown
Roundwood Lane, Skipton — galley
4 200 mm runSprayed MDF, boneOak worktop 4 weeksNov 2025
Cravells Road, Skipton — kitchen & walk-in larder
6 100 mm runAsh, hard-wax oiledMarble pastry shelf 5 weeksSep 2025
Addingham — utility & laundry
3 100 mm runBirch ply, lacqueredBelfast sink 9 daysJan 2026
Long Preston — boot room
2 600 mm runOiled oak benchPainted carcass 6 daysMar 2026
Kinsbourne Green — fitted wardrobes
4 400 mm runIn-frame, sprayed clayPly interiors 12 daysApr 2026
Sheet 03 / 13One job, start to finishHK/2611 · Kestrel Close
Including the fortnight nobody photographs.
The same room, ten times, in order. Most fitters show you week one and week five. The middle is where the trust is: a house with no kitchen in it, and a plan for getting it back.
01Day −28
Survey and drawings
Two hours with a laser and a notebook. Every wall out of square, recorded.
02Mon, week 1
Strip-out and skip
Old units, tiles and flooring out by 3pm. The sink goes today.
03Tue, week 1
Walls back to brick
Two coats of old tile adhesive and a plasterboard patch nobody knew about.
04Wed, week 1
Chasing out
The dusty day. Extraction on the grinder, doorways sheeted, floors covered.
05Thu, week 1
First fix, electrics and plumbing
Nine new sockets, two spurs, the gas capped and moved 600mm left.
06Fri–Tue
Plaster and dry out
Two days to skim the room, Friday and then Monday after the weekend, then one day drying out with the heating on low.
07Tue, week 2
Floor levelled
14mm out corner to corner. Levelling compound, or the doors never line up.
08Weeks 2–3
Carcasses and doors
Seven days. Everything levelled off one datum line, not off the floor.
09Mon, week 4
Worktop templated
Templated Monday, cut off site. Six working days before it comes back.
10Week 5
Worktop, sink, sign-off
Sink back Wednesday. Snag list written by you, worked through on the Friday.
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Sheet 04 / 13What it costsFigures inc. VAT unless marked
A real number, opened up.
Most kitchens we fit land between £18,400 and £46,000 including VAT. Here is one of them with the lid off — the actual quote from Kestrel Close, line by line. Tick the things that would apply to your room and watch the number move.
£18,400 — £46,000
Typical range, inc. VAT · 68 jobs since 2019
Below £12,000
Not a job for us — see sheet 08
Worked example · HK/2611 · Kestrel Close, Skipton
Units and carcasses21 in-frame doors, 6 drawer banks, 2 larders£11,450
Worktop30mm quartz, 5.8m plus upstands, templated£3,980
AppliancesOven, hob, extractor, dishwasher, fridge£2,600
LabourTwo of us, 15 days on site£6,300
Electrics, plumbing, plasteringPriced by the trades, passed on at cost£2,150
Waste, fixings, sundriesTwo skips, sealant, sheeting, dust barriers£640
Extras you have ticked—£0
Subtotal£27,120
VAT at 20%£5,424
Total, inc. VAT£32,544
Deposit 25% at order · 45% on the day units are delivered · 30% at sign-off. Nothing is asked for before the drawings are signed.
What pushes a job up
Tick anything your room needs on top of what's already itemised above. The total moves with it.
Sheet 05 / 13The programmeFive weeks · 25 working days
Who is in your house, on which day.
This is the programme we hand over with the quote, before you have paid anything. Pick a start date and it moves with you. If a week slips, you get a new one of these by the Friday.
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Strip-out, skipTom + Joe
Chasing, first fixDan, spark · Ray, plumber
PlasteringMartin, plasterer
Drying outNobody in the house
Floor levelledTom
Units fittedTom + Joe
Worktop templateFabricator, one hour
Worktop cut off siteNobody in the house
Worktop in, sink backFabricator + Ray
Second fix, tilingDan + Tom
Snag and sign-offTom, with you
Sink out
— Sink back
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- Days without a kitchen sink
- 30 calendar days
- Cooking on a microwave
- 22 working days
- Days somebody is in the house
- 19 of 25
We set up a temporary run in the utility on day one — kettle, microwave, a plumbed washing-up bowl — and it stays until the sink is back. It is on the quote, not an extra.
Sheet 06 / 13How it worksEight stages, survey to sign-off
Eight stages. Named, timed, and in this order.
Nothing here is a surprise. The only stage that can move is the unit lead time, and you will know that number before you pay a deposit.
- 01Survey Tom comes out, measures the room laser-to-laser, checks the floor for level and the walls for square, and looks at where the services actually are. Tom · 2 hours · free
- 02Drawings Plan and elevations at 1:20, drawn to your room rather than to a designs layout. You get them as a PDF and we change them until they are right. Tom · 5 working days
- 03Fixed written quote Priced the way sheet 04 is priced: units, worktop, appliances, labour and trades on separate lines. Fixed for 60 days. It does not move unless you change the drawing. With the drawings
- 04Deposit and order 25% releases the unit order and books your fit dates in writing. You get the programme on sheet 05 with your dates on it. 25% · same day
- 05Units made Painted in-frame carcasses are built and sprayed to order. This is the wait, and it is the honest reason we quote so far ahead. 6–8 weeks
- 06Fit The five weeks on sheet 05. Same two fitters start to finish, same electrician, same plasterer, same plumber. Tom + Joe · 25 days
- 07Snagging You write the list, not us. Anything on it that is ours gets done before the last invoice, not after it. You · 1 week to look
- 08Sign-off and paperwork Electrical certificate, gas certificate if the gas moved, appliance manuals in a folder, paint codes written on the inside of the sink cupboard door. Tom · final 30%
Sheet 07 / 13Who does the workTwo fitters, three trades
The same four people, on every job.
Tom Vane
Fitter and joiner · 19 years
Time-served joiner, ten years on site with a shopfitter before going out on his own in 2019. He does the survey, draws the job, fits it, and is the person who answers the phone. There is no office and no salesman.
- City & Guilds Carpentry & Joinery
- CSCS Gold
- Part P notified via Dan
- £5m public liability
And the three trades he brings
- Joe HallamSecond fitter — on every fit since 2021
- Employed
- Dan WhitlockElectrician, NICEIC · first and second fix, certificate
- Same on every job
- Martin RowePlasterer · skimming and making good
- Same on every job
- Ray OttleyPlumber and Gas Safe · sink, dishwasher, gas moves
- Same on every job
Nobody is subcontracted off a website the week before. If one of them is ill, the programme moves — we do not send a stranger into your house to keep a date.
Sheet 08 / 13What we don't doAnd who this isn't for
Five jobs we will turn down.
Being told no in week one is cheaper for both of us than being told no in week four.
- Flat-pack assemblyIf the units are already bought and boxed in the garage, you want an assembler at a day rate, not us.
- Kitchens under £12,000We cannot fit one properly for less and still level a floor and re-plaster a wall. Below that, a good local handyman is the right call.
- Anything more than 20 miles outSkipton, Gargrave, Addingham, Long Preston, Threshfield, Grassington. Past that the travel starts costing you and the snagging gets slow.
- Supply-onlyWe do not sell units to fit yourself. The guarantee on sheet 09 depends on us having fitted them.
- Starting before the drawings are signedEvery job that has gone wrong for us started with somebody in a hurry.
Sheet 09 / 13Materials and guaranteeNamed suppliers, plain terms
What is actually in your kitchen.
No badges. Here is who makes each part, what it is, and what happens if it fails.
| Part | Who makes it | Specification | Cover |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carcasses | Fenwold Cabinet Co., Luton | 18mm birch ply, edged, glued and dowelled — no chipboard | 15 years |
| Doors and frames | Made in our workshop | Tulipwood in-frame, 22mm, sprayed 2-pack | 10 years |
| Hinges and runners | Blum | Clip-top Blumotion · Tandembox soft-close | Lifetime |
| Worktops | Dales Stone, Skipton | 30mm quartz or 40mm oiled oak, templated on site | 10 years |
| Paint system | Teknos 2-pack | Primed, denibbed, two topcoats — codes left on site | 6 years |
| Our fitting | Hollowfield | Levels, alignment, sealing, doors and drawers | 5 years |
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The guarantee, in plain English
If a door drops, a drawer stops closing properly, a joint opens or a seal fails within five years, we come back and fix it at no charge, and we come back within ten working days. If a supplier's part has failed we chase them, not you. What is not covered: damage, water left standing on a timber worktop, and anybody else's work after we have left. That is the whole of it — there is no registration card.
Sheet 10 / 13PracticalitiesThe questions asked at the survey
Living in the house while we are in it.
- Insurance
- £5m public liability, £10m employer's liability. Certificate emailed with the quote.
- Waste
- Two skips, both on the quote, both on our permit. Nothing is left in your garden.
- Dust
- Zip-door barriers on every opening, extraction on the grinder, floors sheeted and taped.
- Parking
- One van on the drive or the nearest legal space. We sort our own permits in Gargrave.
- Occupied homes
- Yes — most of our jobs. Temporary kitchen set up on day one, at no charge.
- Hours on site
- 8.00 to 16.30, Monday to Friday. No weekends unless you ask for them.
- Pets and children
- Tell us at the survey. Doors stay shut, tools go in the van at 16.30.
- VAT
- Registered. Every price on this page is inc. VAT; the written quote itemises it separately.
- Payment stages
- 25% at order · 45% on delivery of units · 30% at sign-off. Bank transfer, no cash.
Sheet 11 / 13What they saidWith the job attached
Three customers, three jobs, three drawings.
Every review here is tied to a job on sheet 02. No stars, no aggregate score — the village, the month, and the kitchen it is about.
“The programme he gave us in November was the programme. The sink came back on the Wednesday he said it would, eleven weeks earlier. My husband did not believe it.”
“He told us on the first visit that our budget was about eight thousand short and exactly which bits to change. Nobody else did that. Two of them just sent a number.”
“Two dogs, three children and a boot room fitted around all of them in six days. The dust barriers stayed up the whole time and the hall carpet was fine.”
Sheet 12 / 13Book a surveyFree · about two hours
Tell us the room, not your life story.
Current lead time
Quoting for January starts
One slot left this autumn — Monday 12 October. Nothing starts between 18 December and 4 January.
The survey is free and there is no drawing fee unless you ask for a second full redesign. If it is not a job for us, you will be told at the door and pointed at someone it is a job for.
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