Installation Guide
This page answers one question: when the containers are opened, who does the installing, and what has to be settled before that day.
Three ways this normally goes
Your own fitter installs. This is the most common. The units arrive assembled, the packing list tells your fitter which box belongs to which run, and the job becomes a fitting job rather than a joinery job. How the cartons are marked is set out on the packaging page.
We send a team. Installation by our own installers is available and is quoted separately from the goods. It is a chargeable service, not something folded into the cabinet price, and it is worth pricing early if you want it, because visas and travel sit on a longer lead time than the cabinets do.
You install it yourself. For a single room this is realistic. We provide video guidance for the steps that are easy to get wrong, and the hinges we use adjust in three directions, which is what makes a self-install survive a wall that is not flat.
Decide these before production, not before installation
Every one of the following changes something that gets cut in the factory, so leaving them to installation day means leaving them too late. They are the same decisions that sit in the drawing stage of the step-by-step ordering process.
Where the services come in. Water, waste and power. We build in the cutouts and leave the connections to your local licensed trades, which is the normal split and in most markets the only lawful one.
Whether appliances are already chosen. Integrated appliances set the opening, not the other way round. A model change after cutting is a new panel.
Final wall and floor finishes. Tile thickness, skirting, and whether the floor goes in before or after the cabinets. Whatever the floor build-up turns out to be, the plinth changes by the same amount.
Stone tops. If a top needs any cutting, grinding or drilling on site, that work is regulated in a number of markets and in some it is prohibited outright. The practical consequence is the same everywhere: lock the sizes before production so that nothing has to be cut at your end. Where we supply tops, they are made to the signed-off drawing and arrive finished.
Ceiling height and how level the floor is. Measure in more than one place. In the same room these vary more than people expect, and it is the difference between a scribe and a rebuild.
On the day
Set out first, from a level line, not from the floor. Hang and level the wall units before anything is loaded into them. Check the reveals between doors before you fix the last unit rather than after, because the adjustment in the hinges is there to absorb small errors, not to hide a run that has drifted.
If something arrives damaged or short, photograph it before it is installed. Once a damaged part is fitted it becomes very hard for anybody to tell what happened, and it makes a straightforward warranty claim into an argument.
After the install
The cabinetry carries a three-year warranty, and Blum and Higold hardware carries ten years. If you need a spare part, a replacement hinge or a door remade, the after-sales page explains what to send us so it can be dealt with in one message instead of five. For what a single order can cover beyond the cabinets, see what you can source from one supplier.
If you want to talk through the install plan for a specific project, write to thomas@moyisihome.com with the drawings and your intended sequence.