Trade Advice and Project Guides

Trade guides

Practical guidance for people who buy kitchens for a living. How to schedule a kitchen, how to measure it, what to send for a quotation, and how to make a specification hold across a whole development. Written by the team that prices these projects every day.

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Specification

How to Prepare a Kitchen Unit Schedule for a Supplier

What goes on a schedule, in what order, and the six items almost always left off. The single fastest way to get an accurate quotation.

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Landlords

A Landlord's Guide to Choosing a Durable Rental Kitchen

What actually fails in a rental kitchen, the finishes that hide wear, and why standard cabinet widths matter more than they look.

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Quotations

What to Include When Requesting a Trade Kitchen Quote

The eight things every quote request needs, and why “how much is a kitchen?” cannot be answered without them.

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Guides by subject

The trade cluster is organised around the four things that decide whether a kitchen project runs smoothly: getting the specification right, getting it priced, getting it delivered, and repeating it reliably.

Specifying

Unit schedules, measuring, door styles, worktop selection and specification checklists for designers and developers.

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Pricing and quoting

What to send, how to compare two quotations line by line, and where specifications get quietly substituted.

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Delivery and site

Rigid versus flat-pack, phased releases against a build programme, and checking a delivery properly on arrival.

Delivery information →

Repeating a specification

Standardising kitchens across plots and properties so the second one is quicker to buy than the first.

Multi-unit projects →

Publishing schedule

A new trade guide goes live every Tuesday. Here is what is coming, and when:

  • 1 Sep 2026 How to Choose Kitchens for a Multi-Unit Development
  • 8 Sep 2026 Flat-Pack vs Rigid Kitchen Units for Trade Projects
  • 15 Sep 2026 Shaker, Slab or Handleless: Which Kitchen Works Best for Developments?
  • 22 Sep 2026 How Developers Can Standardise Kitchens Across Multiple Plots
  • 29 Sep 2026 Kitchen Refurbishment Planning for Buy-to-Let Properties
  • 6 Oct 2026 How to Measure a Kitchen Before Requesting a Quote
  • 13 Oct 2026 Choosing Worktops for Rental and Development Kitchens
  • 20 Oct 2026 Kitchen Procurement Checklist for Builders and Contractors
  • 27 Oct 2026 How to Send an Existing Kitchen Plan for a Second Quotation
  • 3 Nov 2026 Planning Kitchen Deliveries Across a Phased Development
  • 10 Nov 2026 Complete Kitchen Bundles for Landlords: What to Consider
  • 17 Nov 2026 Kitchen Specification Checklist for Architects and Interior Designers
Each guide appears here and in the trade section of the Brooklands Journal on the morning it publishes. Want one of these subjects covered sooner, or a question none of them answers? Email sales@brooklandskitchens.co.uk and we will write it.

Guidance for your type of project

Reading is not the same as pricing

When you are ready, send the project. A drawing, a schedule, a set of measurements or another supplier's quotation is enough to get a real number back. We aim to reply within one working day.