Fitted wardrobes in Hayes
Hayes & Harlington station is about four miles south-west of our factory and showroom in Greenford, with Yeading and Hayes End between the two. We fit two very different kinds of Hayes bedroom: the interwar semis around the old factory estates, and the newer flats near the station with one usable wall and dot-and-dab plasterboard. Both are measured by us, made in Greenford and fitted by our own installers, and every photograph on this page is our own work.
What makes a fitted wardrobe in Hayes different?
Hayes has two quite different kinds of bedroom, and they need opposite answers. The interwar semis built around the old factory estates have the same box room, bay window and chimney breast as the rest of West London. The flats built around Hayes & Harlington since the Elizabeth line arrived have none of those — no chimney breast, no alcove, frequently one usable wall, and a ceiling at almost exactly 2.4 metres.
In a new flat the problem is not fitting around obstructions, it is getting a full-height run onto a single wall without shrinking the room. That normally means sliding or mirrored doors, because a hinged door needs half a metre of clear floor in front of it that a small room cannot spare. It also means the fixings matter: new-build walls are usually dot-and-dab plasterboard, and a wardrobe has to be anchored through to the blockwork behind rather than into the board.
Free design visit in Hayes — we measure and check the walls, 30 to 60 minutes, no obligation.
Two kinds of Hayes bedroom
The older stock — Hayes End, Yeading, and the streets around the former factory sites — is interwar semi-detached and follows the Metroland pattern: a bay to the front, a square room to the back, a box room over the stairs. If that is your house, the wardrobe question is the same one they ask in Harrow, and the answer is a shallower carcass with doors that do not swing.
The newer stock around the station is a different exercise. Ceiling heights are consistent, walls are true, and rooms are smaller — which actually makes a floor-to-ceiling fitted run more valuable, not less, because there is no other way to get that storage in. Mirrored fronts do double duty in a compact room by putting light back into it.
Real UKB installations
Sliding fronts, mirror and glass, and a single full-height wall: the answers a compact Hayes flat usually needs. Photographs of our own installations rather than stock, with no street or customer named.
New-build walls, checked before anything is made
We start with a free 30-to-60-minute design visit at your home. In a newer Hayes flat we check the wall construction as well as the measurements, because a full-height run is only as secure as its fixings, and in an interwar semi we measure the bay, the box room and the chimney breast.
The furniture is then made at our own Greenford factory, about four miles away, and installed by our own fitters. See the showroom and the machinery before you commit — details on the about and factory page.
Fitted wardrobes in Hayes — common questions
Do you cover all of Hayes and Hillingdon?
Yes — Hayes, Harlington, Yeading, Hayes End and West Drayton, and the wider Hillingdon borough including Uxbridge. Our factory and showroom are in Greenford, about four miles from Hayes & Harlington station.
Can you fit wardrobes in a new-build flat?
Yes, and it is worth saying how. New-build walls are usually plasterboard dot-and-dabbed onto blockwork, so the fixings have to reach the blockwork behind rather than gripping the board. Done properly a full-height run is completely secure; done into plasterboard alone it is not.
My bedroom is small. Will a fitted wardrobe make it feel smaller?
Usually the opposite, provided the doors slide rather than swing. A hinged door needs roughly half a metre of clear floor in front of it. Sliding or mirrored fronts remove that, and the mirror puts light back across the room.
There is no alcove or chimney breast in my room at all.
That is normal in the newer flats and it makes things simpler, not harder. The design becomes one clean full-height run along the best wall, with the internal layout doing the work instead of the shape of the room.
Do you make everything yourselves?
Yes. Design visit, manufacture at our Greenford factory, and installation by our own fitters.
Book a free design visit in Hayes
Hayes, Harlington, Yeading, Hayes End or West Drayton: book a free design visit and we will measure the room, check the walls and give you a price. No obligation and no charge. Call 020 8991 2800 or book online.
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