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Slade is a family run kitchen, bedroom, home office and bathroom cabinet manufacturer in Somerset.

With 40 years experience we can provide an array of completenor components to the tradenindustry for every need.

30/10/2026

Any supplier can promise precision.

Ours is held up by three rules, and each one costs us something.

Machines serviced on a fixed calendar. BIESSE services all our machinery every six months, whatever the order book looks like. Pushing a service back in a busy month would be easier. We don't do it 🔧

Tolerances that never get relaxed. Those services are there so we keep hitting tolerances as small as 0.1mm. Barrie has spent over 40 years fitting kitchens, and he'll tell you there's nothing worse than out-of-square cabinets or inaccurate drillings. When a supplier lets that slip, it's the fitter on site who ends up dealing with it.

Cabinets built to the order in front of us. Everything we make is made to order and tailored to the client. That's been the idea since Barrie and Alison started Slade in Somerset in 1985.

A rule that never costs you anything is really just a preference.

Sticking to ours means you get the same cabinet from us on a busy week as on a quiet one ✅

22/10/2026

Before the order goes in, your client is allowed to ask anything. That's exactly when they should.

Every cabinet we make is built to a specific brief. Height, width, depth, construction method, materials and finish are all set per order.

So a client who wants to revisit a dimension, query a shelf configuration or ask what a double top rail actually means for their job is asking the right thing at the right time.

A few things your client is entitled to say before sign-off.

"Can I see the full cost before I commit?"
Yes. A made-to-order supplier should expect that conversation, and we do.

"Can the fridge freezer cabinet arrive with a fixed shelf pre-fitted?"
Yes. That's a standard request on a made-to-order line.

"I don't really understand the difference between a double top rail and a standard build."
Fair enough. They should get a straight answer while it's still on paper. Much easier than a workaround once the lorry's gone.

"I want to change the depth before we sign off."
Right time to say it. Every spec is set per order.

Barrie was fitting kitchens in Somerset before he started making them. The questions asked at brief stage are the cheap ones 🔧

Wendy at Wincombe Kitchens has worked with us for over 20 years. Contractors have stayed with us across 40 years because the brief is where we're built to be flexible.

Send us the brief before the order goes in ✅

19/10/2026

Most contractors are more polite with their cabinet supplier than they need to be.

Here's what you're allowed to ask before you commit. Easiest first.

Which Blum hardware tier is in the quote. Ask before you accept it. "Blum" on a quote can mean more than one thing, and the client will feel the difference every time they open a drawer.

Whether cables and lighting are integrated at the factory or left for site. On our Polden range, light strips are routed straight into 18mm panels, end panels are grooved and long-range cable outlets are drilled before anything leaves us. Loox5 is plug-and-play, with a 7-year guarantee. 🔧

Four-side edging on every shelf, confirmed in writing. Polden shelves are edged on all four sides, with matching 0.8mm PVC edging all around the cabinet. If a supplier won't put that on paper, that tells you something.

Cover caps with your own business name on them. We personalise them on Polden. If someone says it can't be done, you're allowed to look elsewhere.

And the big one.

You're allowed to stop accepting a delivery format that adds fitting time to every job. Every hour spent building or correcting a cabinet on site is an hour you're not fitting.

Barrie fitted kitchens in Somerset before he ever built one. These are the questions a fitter asks.

Asking is part of the job.

Know your specification. Know your supplier. ✅

12/10/2026

Most contractors say "it comes ready to go."

That phrase loses every room it enters.

"Ready to go" is what every supplier at every tier says. Stock, flat-pack, made-to-order, all of them. It asks the client to trust a vague promise, then disappears into a crowded list of claims that all sound the same.

So try the sharper version instead.

"Doors fitted, shelves in, labelled by room. Your fitter walks in and installs. No assembly stage on site."

Now the client is picturing three things they can actually see on a busy plot: doors already hung, shelves already sitting, labels already readable. That is the moment their anxiety about programme risk either rises or falls.

For developer and volume work, fully assembled delivery isn't a convenience feature. It's a programme commitment. The language around it has to carry that weight or the specification advantage vanishes into "ready."

The Brent range is the proof. Cabinets delivered fully assembled, doors fitted, shelves installed, labelled by room. Blum Contract Drawer, lifetime warranty on the components. Your fitter walks in and installs.

Try the sharper line on your next spec conversation. Notice how quickly the room changes when you stop saying "ready" and start describing what your fitter actually walks into 🔧

07/10/2026

Every brief has one thing the client won't move on. Find it before you spec a single door.

Exact colour? Door leads. UForm, paint to order in any RAL.

Certified standard? Door still leads. PWS, FIRA certified, made in Italy.

Neither? Start from the board.

Then the board, Egger Groups 1 to 10, to sit with it.

Blum hardware last. Lifetime warranties on drawers and hinges.

Every cabinet's made to order, so you spec in the order it's built.

05/10/2026

Cabinet lighting keeps getting treated as somebody else's job.

The cabinets arrive, the fitter fits, and the lighting turns into a separate trade's problem on site.

It doesn't have to work that way.

We've invested in new machinery here in Somerset, and it means we can offer lighting prep that isn't commonly available from cabinet manufacturers.

Light strips are routed straight into the 18mm panels. End panels are grooved. Long-range cable outlets are drilled at the factory.

The cables disappear and the finish stays clean 🔧

Strip or spot. External or internal.

All of it gets decided on the cabinet order, before anything goes near site.

All our Loox5 lighting is plug and play and comes with a 7-year guarantee.

So the trade that follows simply plugs in. Less time on site for whoever comes after the fit.

Send your lighting positions with your next cabinet order.

Once the panels are cut, the chance to hide every cable has gone ✅

02/10/2026

There's a name for lifting that one cupboard door before it shuts: the workaround habit.

It's the small movement your body learns around something slightly off. Lift the door, nudge the drawer twice, lean on the corner unit. Within a week you stop noticing.

You find yours when a guest pushes the drawer once and it sits open.

None is bad enough to fix, so each becomes part of the room.

Barrie knows from over 40 years of fitting kitchens that out of square cabinets and inaccurate drillings are the worst thing to meet on site. That's where the lift starts.

So precision is the one thing our factory won't bargain on, with machinery serviced every six months to hold tolerances as small as 0.1mm.

The opposite is a kitchen nobody thinks about.

01/10/2026

Two days in Pesaro, Italy. One new BIESSE machine confirmed for early 2027.

Barrie and Kyle recently went out to see our machine partners at BIESSE, and while they were there we finalised the newest addition to our fleet: the Rover Multi Go N G.

It'll increase our production. It also expands what we can do with angled units, and under stairs units are the obvious example.

The key is the 5-axis head. It can achieve any angle, including past 45 degrees, which is often difficult on a standard panel saw. 🔧

That means more of the awkward geometry gets resolved on the factory floor, before the unit ever reaches site.

Angled units, cut at the machine. Arriving early 2027 ✅

25/09/2026

The idea that any cabinet range can cover any project sounds efficient. Forty years of orders tells us it is the assumption that costs contractors the most time.

Slade builds three distinct ranges because the manufacturing requirements of a developer volume plot and a premium bespoke installation are not the same brief. Specifying across that gap does not save money. It moves the cost from the quote to the site, and no price negotiation on the order recovers it.

Brent, Mendip, and our bespoke offer each answer a specific project demand. The relationship between brief and range is direct. There is no neutral middle ground where any range performs acceptably for any job.

Made-to-order since 1985, when Barrie put down the tools he'd been fitting kitchens with in Somerset, we have watched the same specification mismatch repeat across decades. The pattern is consistent and the consequence is always the same.

The brief determines the range. Getting it right before the order is the only point at which it costs nothing to correct.

Speak to the Slade team about range selection before your next order 🔧

23/09/2026

Three pain points every trade contractor knows. Three manufacturing capabilities that resolve them before the delivery van leaves Somerset.

Out-of-square cabinets, inaccurate drillings, a supplier that lets you down at the worst possible moment. These aren't fitting problems. They're manufacturing decisions made long before the unit reaches site.

The 0.1mm tolerance is held by BIESSE machinery, serviced every six months across a partnership that's run for over 20 years. Out-of-square cabinets and dodgy drillings are a manufacturing decision we simply don't make. 🔧

Made-to-order means every cabinet is built to your actual project dimensions. The fit is resolved on the factory floor, not at second fix with a fistful of packers.

And a supplier relationship that lasts twenty-plus years does it for one reason. Wendy at Wincombe Kitchens has used us for over 20 years, and she'll tell you it's the consistent service, the on-time deliveries and aftersales that actually resolves things. Not the price.

Barrie spent 40-plus years fitting kitchens before founding Slade in 1985. The stance on precision is non-negotiable because he knows firsthand what getting it wrong costs on site.

Three capabilities, one result: a cabinet project that stays on track from factory floor to finished fit.

Swipe through, then visit sladekitchens.co.uk to talk to the trade team about your next project. ✅

Address

Commerce Way
Highbridge
TA94AG

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

Telephone

+441278792315

Website

http://www.sladekitchens.com/

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