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Slade 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.

Most contractors say "it comes ready to go."That phrase loses every room it enters."Ready to go" is what every 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 🔧

Every brief has one thing the client won't move on. Find it before you spec a single door.Exact colour? Door leads. UFor...
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.

Cabinet lighting keeps getting treated as somebody else's job.The cabinets arrive, the fitter fits, and the lighting tur...
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 ✅

There's a name for lifting that one cupboard door before it shuts: the workaround habit.It's the small movement your bod...
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.

Two days in Pesaro, Italy. One new BIESSE machine confirmed for early 2027.Barrie and Kyle recently went out to see our ...
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 ✅

The idea that any cabinet range can cover any project sounds efficient. Forty years of orders tells us it is the assumpt...
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 🔧

Three pain points every trade contractor knows. Three manufacturing capabilities that resolve them before the delivery v...
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. ✅

1985. Every cabinet made to order since.That number doesn't belong to a catalogue or a stock range. It's the year Barrie...
21/09/2026

1985. Every cabinet made to order since.

That number doesn't belong to a catalogue or a stock range. It's the year Barrie Greenslade, a kitchen fitter in Somerset, decided the trade needed a genuinely flexible, bespoke cabinet supplier and built one alongside his wife Alison.

Four decades on, the principle hasn't moved. Every cabinet we've shipped has been built to the specific dimensions and specification of the individual project. No stock range waiting on a shelf, no off-the-shelf defaults dropped into your job to save us time.

For a trade contractor, that's a different supply decision. Your cabinet arrives cut to your run, not the nearest standard size we happen to hold.

Today the same Somerset factory Barrie and Alison built from the ground up supplies over 40 independent businesses across the South West and beyond.

Forty years, and not one cabinet off the shelf. The number is the proof. ✅

Before we confirm the carcass spec, tell me where the lighting goes. Once the panels are cut, that decision is made for ...
17/09/2026

Before we confirm the carcass spec, tell me where the lighting goes. Once the panels are cut, that decision is made for you.

That is the line that closes down the lighting retrofit conversation before it opens. It works because it moves lighting from a finish choice at handover to a manufacturing instruction that has to land before the order is placed.

Cable routes, grooved end panels and long-range outlets are decisions made at the cutting stage. We route the light strips directly into 18mm panels, groove the end panels and drill the outlets in the factory, so the cables are hidden completely.

A contractor who knows the factory sequence asks the question in the brief meeting. One who doesn't finds out at second fix, when the answer costs time rather than a phone call.

All the Loox5 lighting is plug-and-play with a 7-year guarantee, which keeps another trade off your programme.

Specify the lighting at brief stage. We handle the rest in the factory. ✅

The best supplier you've ever worked with is the one your client has never heard of.There's a kind of supplier relations...
14/09/2026

The best supplier you've ever worked with is the one your client has never heard of.

There's a kind of supplier relationship that only shows itself in what's absent. No branding on the delivery vehicle. No paperwork with another company's name on it. Nothing that puts a third party in the room when your client walks in for the first time.

Slade has run that way from the beginning. Deliveries arrive in unbranded vehicles, with unbranded workwear and delivery notes when that's what a trade customer needs. Kerbside is standard, Monday to Friday, with a two-person in-house option for the jobs that need it, reaching contractors from Bristol to London, Devon to South Wales. The job gets done and the supplier stays out of view, leaving your name as the one your client sees.

That's a considered position, held by a business small enough to care about the distinction. Four people, two generations, one floor. Barrie and Alison built it. Elizabeth and Kyle carry it forward. When accountability matters, a family operation holds it differently to a distribution warehouse. Ring us and you're speaking to someone with a personal stake in what leaves the factory.

For a trade contractor, the finished installation is the only calling card that counts. The tolerances, the routing, the delivery logistics, all of it should be invisible by the time the client turns the key. Your reputation is the finished thing. Our job is to build it, then stay out of the way.

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Commerce Way
Highbridge
TA94AG

Opening Hours

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

Telephone

+441278792315

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