Kitchen Unit Wrapping Nottingham

If your kitchen units are structurally sound but the doors, end panels and worktop edges have had two decades of daily use, wrapping is usually the quickest way to get a matching, new-looking kitchen without pulling the whole thing out. Every visible surface - doors, drawer fronts, exposed unit sides and trims - gets covered in a durable adhesive film, colour-matched across the room, so nothing is left looking like the old kitchen next to the new one.

It's a different job from a full kitchen replacement, and a different job from wrapping just the doors: complete unit wrapping covers the carcasses and end panels too, which is what makes the finished kitchen look genuinely new rather than "new doors, old sides." Most of the work happens with the kitchen still standing and mostly usable, which matters if you're cooking for a family through the job rather than living off takeaways for a fortnight.

The kitchens that suit this best are the ones where the joinery is still doing its job - drawers run smoothly, doors hang square, carcasses are dry and flat - but the colour, the handles or the general look have dated, or the finish has picked up chips and scratches over the years that no amount of cleaning fixes. Kitchens fitted through builders' merchants in the early 2000s often fall into exactly this bracket: solid boxes, worn faces. Where that's the case, wrapping deals with the part that actually looks tired without touching the part that's still structurally fine.

• All cabinet doors and drawer fronts, wrapped in a matching finish or colour so nothing is left mismatched
• Exposed unit sides, end panels and gable ends - the surfaces door-only wrapping leaves untouched
• Plinths, cornice and pelmet trims wrapped or colour-matched so the top and bottom of the run finish cleanly
• New handles and hinges where the old ones are worn, or the originals refitted if they're still sound
• Window and larder unit frames, and any glazed door surrounds, wrapped to match the rest of the run rather than left in the old finish
• Internal cabinet faces that are visible when doors are open, such as the inside edge of a corner unit, finished to the same standard as the outside
• Every visible surface matched in one visit, so the kitchen reads as one cohesive finish rather than a patched-up mix

• Worktops - stone, quartz and engineered surfaces are a separate job with their own pricing and lead time
• Appliances, plumbing and electrics - existing fittings and connections are left as they are unless you're also having them changed
• Swollen, water-damaged or delaminating chipboard carcasses - the film needs a sound, flat surface to bond to, and damaged boards usually need replacing rather than wrapping over
• Layout changes - wrapping keeps units exactly where they are; moving cabinets or altering the room falls under a full kitchen project instead
• Tiling and splashbacks - wrapping stops at the unit edge, so an existing tiled splashback is left in place and isn't part of the quote

1. Free home consultation -- Finish samples are shown against your own units in your own kitchen's lighting, not under showroom spotlights, because colours read differently at home - a shade that looks warm under a showroom's downlights can read completely different under a north-facing kitchen window.
2. Survey and measure -- Every door, drawer front, end panel and trim strip gets measured individually - no two kitchens wrap the same way, so this stage sets the real price, not a rough estimate. Corner units, glazed doors and any awkward angles get flagged here too, since they take longer to wrap cleanly than a flat door front.
3. Doors and drawers come off -- Doors and drawer fronts are removed and taken away to be wrapped under controlled conditions, while the fixed carcasses are prepped and wrapped in place around you, so the kitchen isn't stripped bare for days at a time.
4. Surfaces are prepped properly -- Old finishes are degreased and keyed before any film goes on - this stage is unglamorous but it's what decides whether the finish holds up or starts lifting at the edges within a year. Grease build-up around handles and hobs gets particular attention, since it's the most common reason a wrap fails early if it's skipped.
5. Wrapping and reassembly -- Film is applied, doors are refitted, hinges adjusted so they close properly, and new or refurbished handles go on. Edges and corners are wrapped and trimmed by hand rather than just the flat faces, so there's no visible seam where the film wraps round.
6. Walk-through and sign-off -- A final check together before the team leaves, going door by door and drawer by drawer, with written confirmation of what's been done and the guarantee terms that apply.

Complete unit wrapping starts from around £450 for a small run, with most family kitchens falling between £1,200 and £1,800 depending on how many doors, drawers and end panels there are and how much cutting-in is needed around trims and appliances. The main things that move the price are door count, how many corner or glazed units are involved, since these take longer to wrap cleanly than a flat door, and whether trims and end panels need wrapping as well as the doors. Most jobs take 2-3 days on site, though a small run of doors only can sometimes be done in a day. That's against £8,000-£20,000+ for a full kitchen replacement, which is why wrapping tends to suit kitchens where the layout and carcasses are still good and it's the finish that's tired. Every job gets a written, no-hidden-extras quote after the survey, and completed work carries a 5-year guarantee on labour and installation and a 2-year guarantee on the products used - but the figures above are a guide, and a firm price needs someone to measure your actual units in person, since two kitchens with the same door count can cost differently depending on condition and trim detail. Where budget's a factor, it's worth asking at the consultation which units genuinely need wrapping and which don't - an end panel facing into a utility room, for instance, rarely needs the same finish as one on full display in the kitchen, and leaving it out can bring the total down without it showing.

Every unit wrapping job is carried out under the same trade standards as the rest of the business's kitchen work: membership of the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), and site clearance handled under a registered waste carrier licence, so old doors, offcut film backing and packaging don't get left for you to deal with or dumped illegally. Before anything starts you get a detailed, plain-English written agreement covering the price and the scope of work, with no hidden extras added part-way through, and a formal written sign-off once the job's finished. That standard of accountability comes from being a family-run business that's fitted and refreshed kitchens across Nottingham and the wider East Midlands for over 20 years and worked on 800+ kitchens for local homeowners, which means the person doing your survey and the person quoting the job are the same people who turn up to wrap your units - not a call centre passing the job to a subcontractor you've never met.

Most wrapping jobs are in Nottingham itself, including plenty of older properties in the Lace Market and terraces around the city where the original units are solid but the finish has dated - exactly the kind of kitchen wrapping suits best, since the carcasses don't need replacing. In Wollaton, where a fair few kitchens near Wollaton Hall were fitted with traditional shaker-style doors to suit the area's period housing stock, wrapping is often used to bring a dated painted finish back to a crisp, even colour without losing that traditional door profile. Coverage extends out to West Bridgford, Beeston, Arnold and Sneinton, and further afield into Nottinghamshire towns like Mansfield, Kirkby-in-Ashfield and Stapleford and across into Derbyshire around Derby, Long Eaton, Alfreton and Heanor - broadly a 15-20 mile radius from the workshop. Because it's a mobile, on-site process rather than a factory job, the team also covers addresses along the NET tram corridor through Beeston and Clifton without any extra logistics on your end, and jobs across the River Trent in West Bridgford are scheduled the same way as anywhere else in the city, with materials and tools brought to site rather than requiring a workshop visit.

If your units are sound but the finish isn't, it's worth seeing what wrapping would look like in your own kitchen before pricing up a full replacement - the consultation is free, no-obligation, and the samples are shown in your actual lighting, not a showroom's. Given most jobs are done inside a few days with the kitchen still usable, and the survey pins down a firm, written price rather than a guess, there's little reason to keep living with a finish you don't like while a full replacement quote sits in the back of your mind. Get a date booked in and you'll know exactly what it costs and how long it takes before you decide anything.

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