Churchill’s Cabinets Ltd., who are the UK’s No. 1 manufacturer of radiator covers/cabinets, were established in March 2007. Initially just based in Handforth, Cheshire, the company now has an Operations warehouse and quality control centre in Cheadle, Cheshire, and a delivery/quality control centre in Chertsey, Surrey.

At the Churchill’s Cabinets head office in Handforth, Cheshire, the company’s field sales, telesales, marketing and accounts functions are carried out. This head office in Handforth, Cheshire, also organises and carries out full sales training programmes for its team of Nationwide Home Designers.

At the Cheadle depot, radiator cabinets/covers are delivered to a quarantined quality control area from its two manufacturing bases. When the radiator cabinets arrive, they come fully assembled and fully painted. A quality control inspector will check in each batch of radiator cabinets/covers delivered the name of the customers the radiator cabinets/covers has been made for. The name is written on the safety travel bar for ease of identification. The radiator cabinet/cover is then measurement checked. This covers the height of the radiator cabinet/cover, the width of the radiator cabinet/cover and the depth of the radiator cabinet/cover. This ensures that the customer who has ordered their bespoke radiator cabinet/cover is going to get a radiator cabinet/cover made to their exact size specification. If the dimensions are correct, the quality control inspection continues, checking next that the detachable magnetic front of the radiator cabinet/cover fits perfectly to the radiator cabinet/cover carcass ie flush.  Once this part of the test has been carried out and passed, the cabinet is manually checked for smoothness and consistency of paintwork. The quality control inspector has to ensure that there are no bobbles, bubbles, scratches or marks of any kind and that the painted finish is perfectly comfortable to the touch. The other quality inspection procedures include checking whether the grille is the correct style and of the correct material, eg painted grille or gold anodised grille. Also the radiator cabinet/cover will be checked at the corners, to check that the round edge or square edge corner has been manufactured exactly to the customers’ order.

If any part of the quality control inspection doesn’t come up to the company’s strict quality requirements, the radiator cabinet/cover will be returned to one of the company’s two manufacturing factories for correction.