Slade

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.

Two things that obsess over fractions of a millimetre: NASA, and a four-person kitchen factory off Junction 22.One of th...
31/08/2026

Two things that obsess over fractions of a millimetre: NASA, and a four-person kitchen factory off Junction 22.

One of those you'd expect.

NASA holds aerospace tolerances because a stray fraction ends a mission. We hold 0.1mm because a stray fraction means packers, planing, and a snag list on site. 🔧

Same instinct. Very different budgets.

Barrie spent 40+ years fitting before he founded Slade, so he knew exactly where the millimetres cost you: the join that won't sit flush, the run that drifts across a wall, the door that fouls the one next to it.

That's why the machinery earns the standard. Our BIESSE runs on a strict six-month service schedule to hold that 0.1mm build after build.

We're not launching anything into orbit.

We just want it to fit right the first time ✅

40 years manufacturing for the trade. The same commitment to square cabinets on day one as on day fourteen thousand.Barr...
31/08/2026

40 years manufacturing for the trade. The same commitment to square cabinets on day one as on day fourteen thousand.

Barrie Greenslade started Slade in 1985. He was a kitchen fitter in Somerset first, so he already knew what a bad box costs you on site.

That is still the standard we build to. Made to order, fully customisable, out of one Somerset factory 🔧

We are a small family business. Alison alongside Barrie from the start, then Elizabeth and Kyle in from 2021. Over 40 independent trade businesses rely on us.

Wendy at Wincombe Kitchens has used us for over 20 years. Her words: great service, on time deliveries and fabulous aftersales.

Forty years covers trends, recessions and changing markets, and the same square cabinet coming off the line every time.

Send us the brief 🛠

Not every project needs the same hinge.Ask one question before you spec hardware: what will the end client open and clos...
28/08/2026

Not every project needs the same hinge.

Ask one question before you spec hardware: what will the end client open and close every day for the next twenty years? A rental development answers that differently to a family home. A premium bespoke fit answers it differently again. The hardware tier follows the client expectation, not the other way around. 🔧

Brent. Contract soft-close hinges and cam-and-dowel construction. Built for volume developer work where the units get used hard and specified sensibly.

Mendip. Blumotion soft-close hinges and Minervo drawer boxes. The baseline for mid-range household kitchens built to last a lifetime.

Polden. Legrabox with Onyx Black Blumotion and glued-and-dowelled carcasses. The spec for projects where every detail is visible and every movement is judged.

At the order stage, confirm three things: hinge plate type, drawer depth, and whether the Egger board group matches the finish the client expects. All decided at the factory.

The hinge plate you choose tells the fitter exactly what standard the kitchen was built to.

Specify hardware to the client. Every time. ✅

Every job sits somewhere on the spec spectrum. Here are the six ways we specify a cabinet at Slade, from site-ready deve...
28/08/2026

Every job sits somewhere on the spec spectrum. Here are the six ways we specify a cabinet at Slade, from site-ready developer fit to full bespoke. We have built all six. 🔧

01 Fully Assembled Contract. Our Brent range. Doors fitted, shelves in, clearly labelled for the site. Blum Contract drawer, one Blum soft-close hinge and one standard close, five Egger colours to pick from. Made for developers and high-volume plots.

02 Cam and Dowel Construction. Fast, strong, repeatable. The workhorse joint for volume work.

03 Glued and Dowel Construction. The heavier build when longevity is the brief. Both methods are available across our Mendip range, so you spec the joint to the job.

04 Blum Minervo Mid-Range. Our Mendip tier. Blumotion soft-close hinges, additional back brackets as standard, T-buffers fitted, 450 deep drawers, and three hinge plate options at no extra cost.

05 Blum Legrabox Premium. Our Polden tier. Legrabox drawers, onyx black soft-close hinges, shelves edged on all four sides, 0.8mm PVC edging all round, 450 or 500 deep drawers, glass-sided option if you want it.

06 Factory-Integrated Lighting. We route Loox5 strips straight into the 18mm panel, groove the end panels and drill long-range cable outlets so the cables disappear. Plug and play on site, 7-year guarantee.

Every one of them runs through BIESSE machinery held to 0.1mm, serviced every six months. Barrie knows from 40 years of fitting what an out-of-square carcass costs on site.

Know your tier before you order the box. 🔧

A 40-unit development. Every cabinet arrives labelled, assembled, doors on.That's the Brent range. Built for developers ...
26/08/2026

A 40-unit development. Every cabinet arrives labelled, assembled, doors on.

That's the Brent range. Built for developers running four homes or a hundred, where cost and quality both have to add up.

Doors fitted. Shelves in. Every unit labelled for the plot it belongs to. Your crew hangs them and moves on, rather than working out at the lorry which box goes where.

The build spec is Blum Contract drawers, one Blum soft-close hinge and one standard close hinge, standard feet, and a choice of five Egger colours. All the Blum components carry a lifetime warranty.

We build it this way because Barrie spent his years fitting kitchens in Somerset before Slade ever made one. We know what a bad delivery costs a fitting crew on the morning.

Sorting cabinets on site is a cost nobody quoted for. So we take it off the site.

The wrong cabinet supplier doesn't just cost you money. It costs you the project. 🔧We've supplied trade businesses for 4...
24/08/2026

The wrong cabinet supplier doesn't just cost you money. It costs you the project. 🔧

We've supplied trade businesses for 40 years, and the ones who get burned nearly always skipped the same step: they never diagnosed the manufacturer before the first order.

So here are three questions we'd ask before committing to anyone.

Can they build to your exact dimensions, not just their standard sizes? Are the cabinets delivered fully assembled, or are you paying your fitters to build boxes on site? And will they adapt when the brief changes halfway through the job, because it always does?

A supplier who hesitates on any of those is a site problem waiting to happen.

Then test before you commit. Ask for a sample cabinet and check the hinge action, the edge finish, the squareness. You'll feel the difference before a single unit reaches site. If the sample falls short, the full order will too.

Once someone passes both tests, get lead times, labelling and aftersales agreed in writing before the first delivery. Long-standing trade relationships are built on consistent service and on-time delivery, not on price alone.

Years of loyalty are earned on the first order, not the tenth . . .

The true cost of a kitchen cabinet isn't the price tag. It's the hours your crew spends shaving, shimming, and forcing a...
19/08/2026

The true cost of a kitchen cabinet isn't the price tag. It's the hours your crew spends shaving, shimming, and forcing a poorly built unit to fit. 🔧

Our founder, Barrie, learned that the hard way fitting kitchens decades ago. A cheap carcass turns expensive the moment it swallows half a day of trade labour. That's exactly why we build rigid, factory-assembled cabinets that are ready to install the second they leave our Somerset workshop.

With our Brent range, units turn up fully assembled. Doors hung, shelves in place, solid construction, lifetime-guaranteed Blum hinges. No fiddly on-site adjustments eating into your margins.

Move the labour off the messy jobsite and onto our controlled factory floor, and you finish faster and protect your profit on multi-unit jobs.

It's all in the details . . .

Four people. Two generations. One factory in Somerset.Barrie Greenslade started Slade back in 1985, after years spent on...
17/08/2026

Four people. Two generations. One factory in Somerset.

Barrie Greenslade started Slade back in 1985, after years spent on the tools fitting kitchens across the county. He kept hearing the same thing from clients: the cabinets on the market weren't flexible enough, weren't built well enough, weren't made to the sizes the job actually needed. So he and Alison set up a workshop and started manufacturing to order. 🔧

Forty-one years on, every carcass that leaves our factory is still made to order. Not pulled off a shelf. Not shipped flat for someone else to build on site.

In 2021, Elizabeth and Kyle joined Barrie and Alison, and the range grew into bedrooms, bathrooms and our bespoke kitchen line. Still four of us. Still one factory off Junction 22.

We supply over 40 independent trade businesses across the South West and beyond, some of whom have been with us for more than two decades. Wendy at Wincombe Kitchens put it best: "We've used Slade for over 20 years; great service, on time deliveries and fabulous aftersales."

That's the whole business, really. Four people who know every unit that goes out the door, because between us we've built them.

Most contractors budget the cabinet cost. Almost nobody budgets the two weeks their crew sits idle waiting on a reorder ...
14/08/2026

Most contractors budget the cabinet cost. Almost nobody budgets the two weeks their crew sits idle waiting on a reorder for one wrong-size unit. 🔧

It usually starts small. A ceiling running 30mm short of standard. A wall that's out of square. A plot variant the developer signed off after the cabinet order went in.

Stock suppliers can't fix that on the fly. The fillers don't cover it. The carcass sizes don't flex. The reorder drops into the queue behind everyone else's, your second fix crew stands down, and handover slips.

Made-to-order changes the maths. Every Slade carcass is cut on BIESSE machinery, serviced every six months and calibrated to 0.1mm tolerance, built to the exact dimensions on your submitted schedule. Non-standard ceiling, awkward return, plot-specific variation. It's all the same production run to us.

Stock feels faster on paper. On a live site with real tolerances, built-to-spec is what actually keeps the programme on track.

Flat-pack cabinets look cheaper on the invoice. The site hours tell a very different story. 🔧On a 10-unit kitchen run, R...
12/08/2026

Flat-pack cabinets look cheaper on the invoice. The site hours tell a very different story. 🔧

On a 10-unit kitchen run, RTA boxes add 2 to 4 hours of assembly per kitchen before a single carcass is fitted (NKBA). At a £28/hr UK carpenter rate, that's £560 to £1,120 of trade time spent driving cam-locks and sorting hardware bags. Time your client isn't paying you a premium for.

Then comes the rework. NAHB data puts fit-error rates on multi-unit flat-pack installs at 15 to 20 percent. One out-of-square box on a run of 14 throws the whole worktop template, and your fitter is suddenly scribing, packing, or waiting on a replacement panel that ships in a fortnight.

Our boxes leave the factory fully assembled on a CNC-calibrated line, glued and dowelled under clamp pressure, squared to within 1mm before they're wrapped. Every cabinet is labelled by room and plot, stacked in install sequence, so the crew opens the lorry and goes straight to the wall.

Factory-assembled isn't a premium. It's the version where your programme holds.

Run the labour math before you run the order.

Address

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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