Modular Kitchen in Golconda, Hyderabad
Modular Kitchens for Thick Walled Golconda Houses
An anchor bites solidly in one spot and crumbles the plaster a hand's width away. That is the honest starting point for a modular kitchen in Golconda, where the walls are heavy, older than the plumbing buried in them, and slower to give up damp than any block wall. So before a layout is agreed we tap the walls, find out what will carry a loaded cabinet and what will not, and work out where a duct can leave the room. The cabinetry is then designed to suit those answers rather than the other way round.
Golconda, Hyderabad 500020
Modular Kitchen in Golconda
Tell us about the space and we will come out to Golconda for a free site visit, then quote it line by line.
What A Properly Planned Kitchen Changes Here
In a house like this the small decisions carry the result, from the gap behind the carcass to the duct route and whether a false ceiling is worth the loss of height just to hide the ducting, so here is what those decisions give you day to day.
Carcass Off The Wall
Heavy old masonry holds damp, so the run sits on a spacer with the back left ventilated instead of pressed flat against a wall that never fully dries.
Duct Route Or Window
Whether the duct is cored through a heavy wall or taken out beside the existing opening is decided by what the structure can give up, and you are shown both.
Hung Off What Holds
Wall units are carried on a fixing the structure has been tested for, or on a framed base where old plaster cannot be trusted with a loaded cabinet.
Height Above Turned Into Storage
Rooms here are tall, so the space above the wall units becomes a proper ledge for what you use twice a year rather than being left as dead air.
Deep Cupboards Made Usable
Pull outs and tiered inserts stop a deep old cupboard from becoming the place where jars go to be forgotten at the back.
Access Kept To The Pipework
A removable panel under the sink leaves the old pipework reachable, because in a house of this age a joint will want attention sooner or later.
How We Approach Kitchens In Golconda
- Walls Tested First
- We test how the masonry takes an anchor in several places, since plaster that holds firm at one point can crumble a hand's width along the same wall.
- Plaster Made Good, Then Left To Dry
- Where the wall behind the run is patched, it is repaired and allowed to dry before carcasses go on, so new work is not fixed to something still moving.
- A Visit Before Any Figure
- Someone comes from the studio at the Ambedkar Statue in Narsingi to look at the wall, the water line and the window before a single price is discussed.
- Levels Off A Line, Not The Floor
- Old floors slope, so plinth heights are set from a datum marked round the room, which is what keeps a long counter reading level from end to end.
- Every Line In The Quote
- Carcass, shutters, hardware, counter and the chimney work each sit on their own line, so nothing important is hiding inside a single figure.
Modular Kitchen Questions From Golconda Homes
Will wall cabinets hold in the old masonry of a Golconda house?
They will once the fixing suits the wall. We test several points, because these walls give a solid anchor in one spot and crumbling plaster nearby, and where the result is inconsistent the run is carried on a framed base instead of trusting the plaster. That testing happens before the design is closed, not on fitting day.
Can the chimney duct go through our thick walls, or do we have to use the window?
Both are possible and the wall decides. Coring gives the tidier result where the thickness and what sits inside it allow. Where it does not, the run goes out beside the existing opening instead. We look at the wall and the window together at the visit and show you both routes with what each one costs you in appearance and in pull.
The plaster behind our platform is patchy. Does that have to be repaired first?
Yes, and it is much better done before than after. Loose plaster behind a fixed carcass cannot be reached again, so the wall is cut back, patched and left to dry before anything is mounted. That repair sits on its own line in the quote, separate from the cabinetry, so you can see exactly what it involves.
Let Us Test Your Walls First
Call +91 79892 32675 or send your address and someone will come across from Narsingi to test the wall, look at the water line and find the duct route with you. What follows is a measured layout and a quote with every line visible, before anything at all is cut.
Tell us about your space
Send the form and we will call you back to arrange a free site visit, or just pick up the phone. The consultation, the measurement and the quote cost nothing.
- Call the studio
- +91 79892 32675
- Visit
- Ambedkar Statue, Narsingi
Hyderabad, Telangana 500075 - Open
- Monday to Sunday, 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM