How much roughly for a new kitchen - just after ball park figure
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Very nice! Even better at how much it cost you.
'Food for thought' anyway
Yeah ikea kitchens are pretty good value and well worth a look.
My uncle installs kitchens and has just told my brother to check out ikea as he is looking for a kitchen.
Definately get a company to come and design the kitchen layout for you. Most places offer free design.
My uncle installs kitchens and has just told my brother to check out ikea as he is looking for a kitchen.
Definately get a company to come and design the kitchen layout for you. Most places offer free design.
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I fitted my own kitchen, cost £1250 plus appliances.
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Please don't buy anything by Creda, Hotpoint, Indesit or Ariston.
The two biggest factors (after appliances) in the kitchen are going to be whether you go for solid or laminate doors and the worktop. A granite or solid surface worktop can cost as much as the rest of the kitchen put together.
Some tips for you. These people make kitchens for much of the high street and if you can find a local fitter they can get an account here: http://www.howdens.com/
Alternatively if ytou like Magnet's kitchens they have a trade counter so get them to spec one up for you and then get your local fitter to go and buy the trade stuff. Or threaten the salesman with getting it from the trade counter and you'll get a bigger discount. I got £3K off my kitchen by doing that. Just goes to show what a ridiculous margain they're working to.
Some tips for you. These people make kitchens for much of the high street and if you can find a local fitter they can get an account here: http://www.howdens.com/
Alternatively if ytou like Magnet's kitchens they have a trade counter so get them to spec one up for you and then get your local fitter to go and buy the trade stuff. Or threaten the salesman with getting it from the trade counter and you'll get a bigger discount. I got £3K off my kitchen by doing that. Just goes to show what a ridiculous margain they're working to.
Advice i would give is that instead of buying worktops from a kitchen supplier is to buy them from a timber yard instead. This way you get proper solid surfaces rather than frankly disgusting laminate, and the sizes you need exactly too (i wanted deeper than usual for my last kitchen).
Think i paid around £120 per surface for the equivalent size to a kitchen company supplied item, but that was for solid beech cut to order and delivered. (weighed an absolute bloody ton and impossible to cut, went through many circular saw/jig saw blades!).
Think i paid around £120 per surface for the equivalent size to a kitchen company supplied item, but that was for solid beech cut to order and delivered. (weighed an absolute bloody ton and impossible to cut, went through many circular saw/jig saw blades!).
we had to gut and completely refit the kitchen and it came in at just over 5k fitted.
not really, remember there was an article on the one show, and showed the dishwasher was more economical in the long run, and did save time.
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Weirdo. Never invite me to yours thx
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Our kitchen is relatively big and from what I remember it cost just over £2k as we fitted it ourselves. That's wall and floor tiles included and appliances.
How the hell did you manage that matthew? One of my kitchens i did from ebay and fitted it myself with all second hand appliances, units, etc etc. It still came to around £2500 even doing all of that as i had to buy new worktops to fit, van hire to collect it, sockets, cabling, lighting, etc etc etc
Excellent advice & quoted to make sure people don't get raped.
We have a joiner in the family who gets everyone stuff from Howdens at trade price (50% off minimum) and we simply drop cash in his hand for the labour.
Our kitchen is currently in the process of being eaten by a labrador, as soon as he's got over this fetish we'll have a new one. Meantime we're concentrating on other parts of the house.
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May I recommend.. www.diy-kitchens.com
If you know the sizes you can save yourself a wad of cash by ordering online. My boss just ordered his whole kitchen (with appliances) for £4k and he had a whole host of sample doors and finishes sent (refundable £15) and I must say they were very good quality.
If you know the sizes you can save yourself a wad of cash by ordering online. My boss just ordered his whole kitchen (with appliances) for £4k and he had a whole host of sample doors and finishes sent (refundable £15) and I must say they were very good quality.
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If i'm totally honest - the Dishwasher is one of the things we could have done without in the Kitchen. We use it rarely (once every 2 months) and our old one added about £80 a year to our electric bill when we were using it every 3 days or so.
That and the fact I usually still have to rinse the plates first, It doesn't take some of our plates / knives - & we spend 2 minutes loading it - and 2 minutes unloading it (when we can have the dishes all done & away in 10 minutes anyway - compared to it's quick 30minute cycle) - I just don't see the point.
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Ours cost a lot (£10k+) but was part of a redesign of the back half of our flat and involved switching room functions (total replaster, rewire & replumb, new floor, door & window). My sister did hers, which is twice the size of ours, for less than £2k from Ikea and that included a range cooker.
We fitted our 2nd IKEA kitchen after being impressed with the first that we fitted into our old flat. We went for one that wasn't chipboard/mdf doors but instead solid oak (not veneer). The whole lot set us back just a shade over £2k and that's for 6 base units (2 of which are the funky corner units with double carousels) and 9 wall cupboards (there is no large corner cupboard for the wall hung ones, so you use 1 corner unit + 2 30cm cupboards either side). this also included things like the extractor unit and the kitchen sink (which IMHO is nicer than the B&Q ones as you cut the hole for the tap yourself rather than it already having 2 holes, one of which you cover up with a cap). Also in that price was custom made work-top (you specify the exact dimensions you need, including depth, instead of just cutting rolltop down to size) and hiring a router and template for doing the mitre joints myself.
We already had a free-standing cooker that we used instead of a built-in one as the only way to get a double oven completely fitted is to use one of those tall units and have them higher up, which we didn't fancy).
Fitting isn't hard, but is quite time consuming, especially if you work full time, but can be done at weekends if you manage to plan easy attainable targets that still leave the kitchen somewhat usable. You don't need many tools to do it either, a few screwdrivers, a drill with hammer mode and potentially a circular or jigsaw if you need to modify any cabinets (had to modify the extractor cabinet and two of the end ones as they needed to be slightly less deep).
If you needed to pre-rinse plates then you either had a poor/older model dishwasher or weren't using a decent enough detergent. The plates go into ours with all sorts of muck on them (my mother was agast that I was putting a pan with some burnt on food in without washing it by hand first). Everything comes out sparkling, and uses less energy than doing it to a similar level by hand. It also adds not a lot to our leccy bill, modern dishwashers can use less energy than washing properly by hand (especially as ours is super energy efficient, using cold water filled sides to do a lot of the drying by condensation). We don't use our hot water that much (have showers) and so heating an entire tank of water up just for washing dishes would be more wasteful for us.
Agreed, Bosch, Siemens, AEG or Miele all the way - it costs more initially but you'll save in the long term. Having said that, our old (8 or 9 years) Indesit washing machine is stubbornly refusing to die (which is a good thing as it's added expense we don't need before going away on holiday!).
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check out Ikea as we got ours for around the £2K mark and it looks absolutely fine. Google Baumatic applainces, our fridge, oven, dishwasher etc were all around the £200 mark. Fitted it myself and I'm no DIY expert (I wouldn't touch plumbing/electrics). Hardest thing was getting all the door fronts lined up.
We have an IKEA kitchen and it's alright. Carcasses are much the same from one place to another, the money is in the worktops and the cupboard door/drawer fronts. Nice flooring can be had very cheaply if you are willing to go for something generic like we did.
Fitted ours DIY, apart from replastering the ceiling and plumbing in the gas for the new hob. Total cost was about £3500 - £4000 but we already had a Bosch washing machine and a fridge/freezer.
£900 of that was for a Stoves oven mind, so you could save a packet there if you wanted. That said, it's a great oven (so the Mrs tells me) We didn't go for granite worktops but we didn't go super cheap either, we went for the laminate type with finished composite edges which look quite neat.
No dishwasher as we have a narrow galley kitchen and the units on the left (where the dishwasher would need to be) are actually cut down to 50cm deep rather than the normal 60 so we have nowhere to put one.
Fitted ours DIY, apart from replastering the ceiling and plumbing in the gas for the new hob. Total cost was about £3500 - £4000 but we already had a Bosch washing machine and a fridge/freezer.
£900 of that was for a Stoves oven mind, so you could save a packet there if you wanted. That said, it's a great oven (so the Mrs tells me
) We didn't go for granite worktops but we didn't go super cheap either, we went for the laminate type with finished composite edges which look quite neat.No dishwasher as we have a narrow galley kitchen and the units on the left (where the dishwasher would need to be) are actually cut down to 50cm deep rather than the normal 60 so we have nowhere to put one.
+1.
Also you can easily get money knocked off from these appliances and if your buying several from one place, expect a good amount off the price or walk out.