Service
Wardrobes and cabinetry
Fitted joinery is the part of a home where a tolerance of a few millimetres is the difference between built-in and stuck in.
A wardrobe run made in a workshop has to meet a room that is not perfectly square, walls that are not perfectly flat and a floor that is not perfectly level. Whether the finished job reads as built-in depends entirely on how the survey, the setting out and the scribing allowances were handled before manufacture. That is a documentation problem before it is a craft one.
How we work
- Dubai villas and townhouses onlyWe work on villas and townhouses owned and occupied by the people who commission the work.
- Written scope before priceThe existing condition, the requested work, and what is deliberately included and excluded — written down before a figure is attached to any of it.
- Exclusions stated in writingWhat the price deliberately does not cover, visible before you commit rather than after.
How we work
Proof before promise
Know the scope. Know the price basis. Then we build.
We do not compete on a headline figure or a headline duration. We compete on whether you can see what you are buying before you commit to it.
- Existing condition, recorded. What is physically there, written down at survey.
- Findings, stated. Including the ones nobody wanted, because those are the ones that move the price.
- Scope, defined. Item by item, so that "included" is a document rather than a memory.
- Inclusions, exclusions and assumptions, written. What is in, what is deliberately out, and what is being assumed until something is opened.
- Approval considerations, identified. Which permissions apply to your property and who issues them.
- Price drivers, visible. Measured items, named allowances and stated provisional sums rather than one absorbed rate.
- Construction and hidden work, evidenced. Recorded before it is covered.
- Finished result, against the document it started as.
Scope
What wardrobes and cabinetry covers
Scope is set per property. This is the range the service works within, not a fixed inclusion list.
- Fitted wardrobes — hinged and sliding, walk-in and reach-in, with internal configuration set out to what is actually being stored.
- Storage and utility joinery — laundry, store rooms, understairs, pantry and boot storage.
- Living and media joinery — media walls, display units, wall panelling and integrated storage.
- Vanity and washroom joinery — coordinated with the wet-area setting out rather than fitted around it afterwards.
- Doors, panelling and trims — including the junctions where joinery meets floor, ceiling and wall finishes.
- Lighting and services integration — power, data and lighting coordinated into the joinery before manufacture rather than surface-mounted after it.
Inclusions, exclusions and cost drivers
What moves the figure
- Room geometry
Out-of-square walls, uneven floors and out-of-plumb returns all increase scribing, packing and site work. They are measured at survey, so they are priced rather than discovered.
- Carcass and front materials
Board type, edge treatment, finish and hardware grade are specified individually because each of them independently moves the figure.
- Internal fit-out
Drawers, pull-outs, soft-close mechanisms, lighting and internal dividers are priced as items, not absorbed into a per-metre rate.
- Services in the joinery
Any power, data or lighting inside the unit has to be coordinated before the carcasses are cut.
- Access for delivery and installation
Whether the assembled units can physically reach the room decides whether they are built as modules or assembled on site.
Process
How the work runs, stage by stage
- Inquiry review
We read what you have sent, check the property type and the community against what we actually take on, and tell you plainly whether it is work we should be quoting for. An inquiry we should decline is declined here rather than three meetings later.
- Site survey and existing-condition record
We attend the property and record what is physically there: service capacity and routes, wet-area construction, substrate condition, structural arrangement, access and waste routes, and whether the household stays in occupation. This record is the input to everything after it.
- Findings and defined scope
What the survey found is written down, including the things that were not what anyone assumed. From that, the scope is defined item by item — what is being done, to what, and to what standard.
- Price basis: inclusions, exclusions, assumptions
Each item is priced as a measured item, a named allowance or a stated provisional sum. Anything deliberately left out is written as an exclusion. Anything that cannot be known until something is opened up is written as an assumption rather than buried in a rate.
- Approval path
We identify which permissions your specific property and scope require and who issues them — authority, master developer, community or utility — and build that route into the programme instead of discovering it during construction.
- Mobilisation and protection
Work areas are separated from living areas, routes and finishes that are staying are protected, and the waste route, working hours and service-shutdown windows are agreed before the first tool comes out.
- Controlled construction with written changes
Work proceeds against the agreed scope. Anything that departs from it becomes a written instruction stating the scope change, the cost effect and the programme effect, and it is carried out only once you have accepted it.
- Hidden-work record
Waterproofing, first-fix services, substrates and anything else about to be concealed is recorded before it is covered, so that what is behind the finish is documented rather than remembered.
- Snag list and clearance
We walk the completed work with you, write the snag list down, clear it item by item and record each item as closed rather than treating completion as a verbal agreement.
- Handover and documentation
You receive the completion record for the work: the defined scope as built, the written changes, the hidden-work record and the cleared snag list.
Workmanship
What the finished standard looks like
The images below show the type of space and the standard of finish this service is built to.
Evidence
Published records for this service
Evidence slot pending
No project record is published for this service yet.
A published Rawdha record has to carry the project code, the community and property type, the customer objective, the before condition and findings, the scope with inclusions and exclusions, the approvals, price drivers and changes, the hidden-work and completion record, and exact written publication permission. Until a project completes all of them, this slot stays visibly empty rather than being filled with an anonymous interior.
FAQs
Questions people ask before they write
Is the joinery made to measure or assembled from standard units?
That is a specification decision and it is written down either way, including carcass material, front material, edge treatment, hardware and internal configuration. What we do not do is leave it implied.
Where do the materials and hardware come from?
Each is named in the scope document — board type and finish, edging, hinges, runners and handles. Where a selection is still open, a stated allowance is carried on the face of the price.
What if the wall is not straight?
It rarely is. The survey records the geometry and the scribing allowance is designed in before manufacture. That is why we measure the installed room rather than working from a drawing dimension.
Can we change the internal layout after ordering?
Until the cutting list is released, usually with limited cost effect; after release, the change carries the cost of what has already been made. Either way it is a written instruction stating the cost and programme effect before it proceeds.
How long does fitted joinery take?
The manufacturing lead time dominates, and it depends on the specification and the volume. A programme is issued for your specific scope once the specification is fixed. We do not publish a standard installation window.
What happens on site during installation?
Routes are protected, the units are brought in, set out to the survey lines, levelled, scribed and fixed, then the fronts, internals and any integrated lighting are fitted and adjusted. The adjustment stage is where the doors are aligned, and it is part of the job, not an afterthought.
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Enquiry
Ask about wardrobes and cabinetry for your property
Tell us the community, the property type and what you want the finished space to do. We will tell you whether it is work we should be quoting for, and what a survey would need to establish.
What happens after you write: your message is reviewed against the property type, the community and the work we take on, and you get a straight answer either way. If it is work for us, we set out what a survey would need to establish and propose a date — no figure is issued before that survey.
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Next step
Start a scope review
Describe the property, the community, the areas involved and the outcome you want. That is enough to begin a review.
Standard of finish
The standard of finish we work to
Drag the handle to move between a dated existing condition and the finished standard we build to.
Standard of finish
Wardrobe and cabinetry finishes