Tavola Kitchen Fitting Derby

Tavola's appeal is mostly in what it leaves out - no raised panel detail, no visible grain lines breaking up the door front, and, if you choose the handleless option, no handles interrupting the run at all. That flatness suits open-plan kitchen-diners particularly well, where the kitchen sits in view of the dining and living space all day and a busier door style can end up feeling like the loudest thing in the room. It's a look that lives or dies on precision, though: flat, handleless doors show every millimetre of misalignment in a way a framed shaker door simply hides, which is why cabinet setting-out matters more with Tavola than with almost any other range we fit.

We build Tavola alongside several other ranges, and if the flatter, more linear panels aren't quite right for your kitchen, our Zola range sits at a similar price point with a slightly different door profile that's worth comparing before you decide. Whichever you choose, the same design team, the same in-house trades and the same written guarantee apply - nobody here is paid more for steering you toward whichever range happens to be cheapest to install that month.

• Full design visit with measuring and CAD layout options for the Tavola range
• Cabinetry made and fitted to your kitchen's actual dimensions, not a standard flatpack grid
• Choice of Tavola door finish and colour, discussed against physical samples at the design stage
• Woodgrain or matt textured foil finishes where the Tavola specification allows, shown to you as samples rather than a photograph
• Worktop supply and fitting, including laser templating for stone and solid-surface options
• Integrated appliance housings built to fit the specific appliances you're keeping or buying
• Handle and hardware fitting, or handleless channel fitting depending on the door style chosen
• Plumbing connections for sinks, taps, dishwashers and washing machines by NVQ Level 2 qualified plumbers
• Electrical work for sockets, lighting and appliance circuits, certified by our Part P registered electricians

• Gas Safe registered connection and commissioning for gas hobs or range cookers
• Plastering and making good around new units, extractor ducting and any wall alterations
• Removal and legal disposal of your old kitchen units through our registered waste carrier status

• Structural work such as removing load-bearing walls or chimney breasts - we can price this in, but it's quoted separately once a builder or structural engineer has confirmed what's needed
• The appliances themselves unless you ask us to supply them - we'll happily fit customer-supplied appliances
• New flooring, though we'll work around your fitter's schedule or recommend one
• Rewiring the property's main consumer unit or fuse board beyond the kitchen circuit
• Building regulations or planning applications for larger structural changes
• Ongoing appliance servicing after the manufacturer's warranty period ends - that's between you and the appliance maker

1. Free design visit -- Someone comes out to measure the room properly, discuss how you use the kitchen day to day, and talk through Tavola door finishes and worktop pairings against physical samples rather than a screen.
2. CAD layout and written quote -- You get a proper layout showing where every unit, socket and appliance sits, plus an itemised quote with no vague 'from' pricing - you see what each part of the job costs before you agree to anything.
3. Strip-out and first fix -- On the agreed start date, the old kitchen comes out and goes straight into legal disposal. Our plumbers and Part P electricians do the first-fix work, moving pipework and cabling to the new layout, before a single new unit goes in.
4. Cabinetry and worktop fitting -- Tavola units go in level and square against the new first-fix points - flat, handleless doors leave no frame detail to hide a slightly-out cabinet, so alignment gets checked more carefully at this stage than with a framed door style. We then template for your worktop - stone, solid surface or laminate - and fit it once it's cut, jointed by experienced stonemasons where the material calls for it.
5. Appliance connection and finishing -- Gas Safe engineers connect and commission any gas hob or range cooker, electricians finish sockets and lighting, and a plasterer makes good any disturbed walls or new ducting runs.
6. Sign-off walk-through -- We go through the finished kitchen with you door by door, note anything that needs a final tweak, and hand over your written guarantees on the spot rather than posting them later.

There's no single published price list for the Tavola range itself, because the final figure depends on kitchen size, the worktop material you choose, how much electrical and plumbing first-fix work is needed, and whether any walls or ceilings need altering. As a general steer, UK-wide data on fully fitted kitchens (Checkatrade, 2026) puts a typical full fitted kitchen project somewhere between £7,000 and £10,000, and a Tavola kitchen from us tends to sit within that range depending on specification - a small galley kitchen with laminate worktops comes in well below that band, while a larger kitchen with stone worktops, integrated appliances and structural changes can run above it. The only way to get a figure that actually applies to your kitchen is the free design visit, where we measure the room, talk through what you want from the Tavola range, and give you an itemised quote in writing, not a verbal estimate that changes once the job starts. If cash flow is a factor, raise it at the design visit - we can talk through a staged payment schedule tied to project milestones rather than one lump sum upfront, though we haven't set up a formal finance or instalment scheme, so ask us directly what's practical for your job.

A flat-panel, potentially handleless kitchen like Tavola only holds its line if the carcass work underneath is dead square before a door ever goes on, which is why our joinery and cabinetmaking is handled by joiners with formal City and Guilds training and a bench-joinery background rather than someone working from a flatpack manual. "We only fit kitchens to the standard we'd want in our own homes - and we put that in writing before we start," is how the team here describe the approach, and it runs through every other trade on a Tavola job too: plumbing connections go through plumbers qualified to NVQ Level 2 and City and Guilds, electrical work is carried out by Part P registered electricians who issue full safety certificates for the lighting and power they've added, and any gas hob or range cooker is connected and commissioned by Gas Safe registered engineers - a legal requirement, not something we're offering as a nice extra. Plastering around the new units falls to master plasterers with decades of hands-on site experience, and your old kitchen leaves the property legally through our registered waste carrier status rather than an unmarked van.

That in-house structure isn't incidental. Derby Kitchen Fitter started because too many homeowners were getting a fitter one week and a plumber the next, with nobody quite accountable when a joint failed by the following winter, so the business was built around designers, planners and every qualified trade a kitchen needs working as one crew instead. We've kept it that way for around two decades across Derbyshire now, and we're members of both the CITB and the FSB. On a Tavola job specifically, that matters because the same crew who levelled your carcasses is still on site to template the worktop and finish the plastering - one team who saw the job from the first measurement, not three separate visits and three separate opinions about whose fault a gap is.

Derby is home ground - our workshop sits on Stenson Road in Sunny Hill, which keeps us close to jobs across the city whether you're in Allestree, Chaddesden, Mickleover or the Derwent-side streets nearer the centre. From there we cover Derbyshire more widely, regularly fitting Tavola kitchens in Chesterfield, Long Eaton, Belper, Ilkeston, Heanor, Alfreton, Swadlincote, Ripley, Duffield and Dronfield, and we're just as comfortable travelling out to the Peak District edge towns of Matlock, Wirksworth, Bakewell and Buxton, where older stone-built cottages often mean a kitchen that isn't a standard rectangle and needs units adjusted on site rather than ordered to a catalogue size. We also fit across the border into Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, where terraced properties nearer the city centre often have similarly tight galley layouts to parts of Derby, so the same made-to-measure approach applies rather than trying to squeeze a standard-sized run into an awkward space. Wherever the job is, the same design visit, the same trades and the same written quote apply - distance from the workshop doesn't change how the kitchen gets measured or fitted.

Photos and screens change how a flat, low-detail door reads, so the only reliable way to choose a Tavola finish is against your own walls and worktop, in your own kitchen's light. Book the free design visit and you'll leave with a CAD layout and an itemised quote in writing - not a verbal figure that shifts once work starts, and no obligation to go ahead.

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