New Kitchen Costs?
Discussion
Clearly a Saturday night when everywhere is closed is the ideal time to think of this 
What started out as replacing a cooker and hob has turned into thinking whether to replace the kitchen as it's getting on for 20 years old.
It's small at around 2m x 3m and a simple "U" shaped with one side of the U longer than the other.
Looking online places like Wren and Magnet have rough price guides that spit out what feel like crazy low prices for "mid" or "high" range units and appliances with wet-fit.
Guessing I probably wouldn't use them but the calculators are there and they all spit out in the sub £10K range which feels like complete rubbish.
Like the painting/decorating thread I fully get that you can buy cheap stuff or decent stuff and I fully appreciate that it needs a sit down with some kitchen specialists - but has anyone had a smallish kitchen done recently with sensible stuff i.e. it's not the Ritz?
I may pop to Wickes/Magnet tomorrow as they're open and local but I'm just trying to get an idea if it's worth even sitting down to get a few quotes.
What started out as replacing a cooker and hob has turned into thinking whether to replace the kitchen as it's getting on for 20 years old.
It's small at around 2m x 3m and a simple "U" shaped with one side of the U longer than the other.
Looking online places like Wren and Magnet have rough price guides that spit out what feel like crazy low prices for "mid" or "high" range units and appliances with wet-fit.
Guessing I probably wouldn't use them but the calculators are there and they all spit out in the sub £10K range which feels like complete rubbish.
Like the painting/decorating thread I fully get that you can buy cheap stuff or decent stuff and I fully appreciate that it needs a sit down with some kitchen specialists - but has anyone had a smallish kitchen done recently with sensible stuff i.e. it's not the Ritz?
I may pop to Wickes/Magnet tomorrow as they're open and local but I'm just trying to get an idea if it's worth even sitting down to get a few quotes.
Kitchens are all about the fitting. A good fitter can make a cheap kitchen look great and a rough fitter can make an expensive kitchen look s
te. Look up a guy on YouTube called cav joinery to see someone doing it properly. Don’t know where you are in the country, but if your anywhere near him it, he would be worth contacting.
te. Look up a guy on YouTube called cav joinery to see someone doing it properly. Don’t know where you are in the country, but if your anywhere near him it, he would be worth contacting.If you know what you are after try DIY kitchens. Our old house had a similar sized kitchen which, from hazy memory, came in at around the £3k mark, may hve been slightly less. I was going to fit it myself with a chippy doing the worktops. He offered to fit the lot including the work tops for something like £500. Took him a week to do so i thought that was a bargain. And it looked perfectly fine, everything worked as it should, worktop joints mitred in etc
Edited by AWRacing on Saturday 28th September 20:44
AWRacing said:
If you know what you are after try DIY kitchens. Our old house had a similar sized kitchen which, from hazy memory, came in at around the £3k mark, may hve been slightly less. I was going to fit it myself with a chippy doing the worktops. He offered to fit the lot including the work tops for something like £500. Took him a week to do so i thought that was a bargain. And it looked perfectly fine, everything worked as it should, worktop joints mitred in etc
Last one we did with DIY Kitchens was @£2500. It’s not bad stuff either, but not found them the easiest to deal with. £500 fitting would be a no brainier!Edited by AWRacing on Saturday 28th September 20:44
I wouldn’t get the worktop from them. Find the local “flash” granite/silestone worktop place and see what they have available as offcuts (they’ve already been paid for, so all gravy them)… ours will come out and pattern, cut, finish if needed for much less than you’d expect to pay.
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