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Reading, Berkshire

Fitted wardrobes in Reading

Reading is the furthest town we actively work, and the only reason it is on the list is the M4. Twenty-seven miles of motorway is a shorter journey than twelve miles across London.

Area
Reading, Berkshire
Postcodes
RG1, RG2, RG4, RG30, RG31
From us
About 27 miles from Hayes, but almost all of it motorway: M4 junction 4 to junction 11, usually under forty-five minutes.
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About Reading

Why the joinery here is not the joinery two towns over.

Plan of a Victorian bedroom in Reading Looking down on a late-Victorian or Edwardian bedroom. A deep chimney breast projects into the room with a narrow, deep alcove either side. The window is on the outside wall and the door opens against the opposite wall. The wardrobes fill both alcoves, deep enough to hang across the recess rather than along it. 1m deep Window Chimney breast Wardrobe, hung across Wardrobe, hung across
Plan, looking down Deeper chimney breast, narrower alcoves. The recess is often deep enough to hang across rather than along, which is what makes these rooms worth the money.

Reading is the one town on our list where the drive is easier than the distance suggests, because it is junction four to junction eleven of the M4 with nothing in between. The housing splits cleanly.

Central RG1 is dense Victorian terrace, much of it built for the Huntley and Palmers workforce, with narrow frontages, small bedrooms and the usual chimney breast and alcoves. Caversham across the river in RG4 is the opposite: substantial Edwardian and interwar houses on the hill with generous room sizes and the ceiling height to take full-height joinery. Tilehurst and RG31 to the west are largely interwar and post-war semis.

And around the station, Green Park and the Kennet, there has been heavy apartment development in the last fifteen years, which brings the same metal-stud partition walls and 2.4m ceilings that new-build brings everywhere. Reading is also a town with a lot of people who commute into London, which in practice means most of our visits here happen on a Saturday or after six.

Access is the practical constraint in central Reading. Much of RG1 is permit parking with no loading bay, and the terraces have no side access, so every panel comes through the front door and up a turning stair. We measure the front door, the hall and the stair on the first visit for that reason, and it occasionally changes how a wardrobe is built.

  • Front door, hall and stair dimensions, because there is no side access
  • Parking and permit restrictions on the street, before a delivery date is set
  • Whether the walls are Victorian solid brick or new-build metal stud
  • Whether a Saturday or an evening visit suits better, which here it usually does

Also covering Caversham · Tilehurst · Earley · Woodley · Winnersh · Twyford · Shinfield

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Four kinds of Reading house

Central Victorian terrace. Narrow, chimney breast, two alcoves. Alcove units and a bridge.

Caversham Edwardian. Tall, wide, generous. Full-height joinery with a top box.

Tilehurst interwar semi. Bay at the front, alcoves opposite. Metroland logic, Berkshire postcode.

Station-area new-build. Flat walls, metal stud, 2.4m ceilings. Fixed into the studs, not the plasterboard.

Why the M4 decides our boundary

Our working radius is about fifty miles from Hayes, but a radius is a blunt instrument. What actually matters is whether Arshdeep can get to you, measure, and get back without the day being gone.

Reading is twenty-seven miles and forty minutes. Some places twelve miles away are worse. That is why the list looks the way it does.

Prices are the same in Reading as everywhere else we work. For the ranges, taken from jobs actually done, see what fitted wardrobes cost.

Common questions

Asked often enough to answer here.

Do you really travel to Reading?

Yes, and regularly. It is twenty-seven miles but it is motorway the whole way, junction four to junction eleven. It is a more predictable journey than a twelve-mile run across London, which is why Reading is in our area and some closer places are not.

Is there a travel charge?

No. Reading is inside our fifty-mile working radius from Hayes and there is no distance charge anywhere within it.

Can you visit outside working hours?

Yes, and in Reading most of our visits are evenings or Saturdays because so many households commute. Say what suits when you get in touch.

Our Caversham house has very tall ceilings. What do you recommend?

Take the joinery all the way up, with a top box above the hanging. In an Edwardian Caversham bedroom that is often an extra half-metre of storage across the whole wall, and it stops the wardrobe reading as furniture standing against the wall.

We are in a Victorian terrace in central Reading and the bedroom is small. What fits?

Alcove units either side of the chimney breast, floor to ceiling, with a bridge across the top. In a narrow terrace bedroom that is usually more hanging space than a freestanding double wardrobe, and it takes no floor at all.

Which areas around Reading do you cover?

RG1, RG2, RG4, RG30 and RG31, plus Caversham, Tilehurst, Earley, Woodley, Winnersh, Twyford and Shinfield.

Do you only do wardrobes in Reading, or kitchens as well?

Both. A recent Reading job was a full kitchen under a roof lantern, off-white units with a marble-effect island. See the fitted kitchens page for more, and the same free home visit and drawing applies whichever room it is.

What we build in Reading

Everything below is fitted in Reading homes, by the same man who measures it.

The next step

Arshdeep can be in Reading to measure this week. None of it costs you anything.

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