Kitchen and bathroom fitters in Reading

What to put in your job description

• Kitchen or bathroom, and roughly how big.
• Whether you have bought the units or suite, or want the fitter to supply them.
• What stays and what comes out.
• Whether anything moves: the sink, the toilet, the cooker, the boiler.
• When you want it done, and how long you can be without the room.

Don't put your name, phone number or address in the description: every trade who covers your area reads it. Your name, phone, email and address go only to the trades who take the job (3 at most).

Questions to ask before you hire

• Who does the plumbing, the electrics, the tiling and the plastering?
• If gas is involved: who is the Gas Safe registered engineer?
• How long will I be without a kitchen or bathroom?
• How are payments staged?
• Do you have public liability insurance?

Registers and schemes to check

There is no register for kitchen and bathroom fitters. The parts of the job that touch gas must be done by an engineer on the Gas Safe Register, and new circuits or new electrical work near a bath or shower by an electrician in a competent person scheme. Ask the fitter who does those parts. We don't check this for you yet.

Your council in Reading

Planning permission and building control are dealt with by your local council. For most of Reading that is Reading Borough Council; a postcode at the edge may be in a neighbouring council's area. Ask your council, or the Planning Portal before work that changes the outside of your home, its structure, or a listed building or a home in a conservation area. A trade in a competent person scheme can sign off some work without building control.

We take jobs from RG1, RG2, RG4, RG5, RG6, RG7, RG8, RG10, RG19, RG30, RG31 for Reading. Trades choose the districts they cover.

More on hiring: Kitchen and bathroom fitters: what to ask and what to check.

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