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Tiles · Cabinetry · Windows

How we work

Six steps, and you know what happens at each one.

Buying from another continent is mostly an exercise in not being surprised. Here is the whole sequence, what you receive at each stage, and how long each one actually takes.

01

First conversation

Tell us the project — which rooms, roughly what quantities, and when you need it on site. A floor plan helps, but a sketch with measurements is enough to start. We will say straight away if something you want is outside what we do.

Turnaround

Reply within 1 working day

You receive
  • A named contact who stays with your project
  • The catalogue for the lines you are interested in
02

Deposit & design

Design work starts once a deposit is in. Your rooms come back as a drawing set with 3D renders — surface setting-out, cabinet elevations, and a window schedule listing each opening and its type. Revised until you are happy with it.

Turnaround

3D renders within 1 week

You receive
  • CAD drawings and 3D renders
  • Itemised specification per room
  • Revisions until you sign the drawings off
03

Colour cards & samples

Once the renders are approved, physical samples and colour cards go out — stone, board and door chips, and frame colours. Chosen against each other in daylight rather than across three screens, and against a design you have already seen.

Turnaround

Posted worldwide

You receive
  • Sample box and finish library
  • Sample and freight cost credited back against the order when you proceed
04

Confirmation

You approve the final drawing set and the itemised packing list. That signed set is exactly what we build — nothing is substituted without asking you first. The balance is settled in full before production begins.

What it fixes

Scope, finishes, quantities

You receive
  • Signed specification and packing list
  • Confirmed production and shipping dates
05

Production

Tiles in stock ship as soon as the order is confirmed. Cabinetry is nested, cut, edged and drilled on our HOMAG lines. Windows are cut, assembled and glazed. You get photographs of your actual goods, not stock images of somebody else's order.

Lead times

Tiles: from stock
Cabinetry: 45–90 days
Windows: 45 days

You receive
  • Progress photos during production
  • Notice immediately if a date is going to move
06

Inspection & shipping

Everything is checked against the signed specification, photographed, labelled by room and loaded. You are welcome to send your own inspector, or come yourself — we will arrange access at any point in the process.

Inspection

Yours, ours, or a third party

You receive
  • Photographs before packing
  • Loading photos and container seal number
  • Shipping and customs paperwork
Flat-packed goods delivered on site
Labelled by room and packed in build order, so your installer unpacks in the sequence they build.
Container being unloaded on site
Three product lines consolidated into one container — one bill of lading, one arrival date.
Where we stop We manufacture and ship. Measuring, installation and any licensed trade work are done by professionals in your own country — we give them the drawings, the setting-out and the technical support they need. We would rather say that plainly than promise a service we cannot stand behind from here.

Documents

What travels with every shipment.

Paperwork is where an import goes wrong quietly. Ours is prepared before the container is sealed, not chased afterwards.

On board

Shipping documents

Bill of lading, commercial invoice and a packing list itemised by room — so your installer can find one cabinet without opening nine cartons.

At the border

Customs documents

Certificate of origin and whatever else your broker asks for in your market. Tell us early and we prepare it with the order.

On site

Installation set

Drawings, setting-out and fixing instructions, packed with the goods and emailed ahead so your trades can plan before the container lands.