How much does a kitchen cost?

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Yep, serious question!

Looking at buying a new, well actually its an old, house ~200 years old, and its in generally good condition. I'd want a structural survey done (£600? no idea really...) and the only thing it NEEDS done to it is a new kitchen.

Now in time i'm happy to throw more money at it to get what i want, but how much would a new, basic, kitchen come to do people think? L-Shaped, room is 16ft x 12ft.

I'm not after serious or exact costs, just how much can one get away spending to improve something - even if its only short-term whilst savings get replenished? The move is going to clean us out and so wont have much left - but could probably save £7-9k in 2 years to get a better one...

real ball-park estimates would do from people that have recently replaced them, or work in the trade. We talking £1k, or nearer 5k for example. Its a working kitchen currently, with gas/water so no major sparky/gas/plumbing work needed.
 
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I got a new kitchen from B&Q last year - cost about £8k fitted for a kitchen maybe 12ft by 6ft. This was a Cooke and Lewis kitchen though (better quality units), I'd have saved £1-2k by choosing from their cheaper range. I'm sure I could have saved more money if I'd found an independent kitchen fitter to fit it rather than use B&Q's fitting service, but the least amount of hassle was one of my buying criteria.

Don't assume you won't need any electrics, plumbing doing. Standards have changed over time and yours may need to be updated to conform to them. For example my plug sockets had to be moved and put on a new RCD circuit. The fitters said they would not fit the kitchen without this work being done. Of course, you could always fit the kitchen yourself and avoid all that.
 
thanks for the (helpful) comments guys.

Scorza - like you i would typically drop the wedge for minimum pain, and i'd be able to in time, but not straight away. Good point on the plumbing/leccy bit - hadnt considered that, though i know a sparky and plumbing isn't as dangerous so might be worth a punt on our own.

Dr House - thanks for the links mate, will bear that in mind and have a nosey.

The mother-in-law had an ex-demo and got someone to fit it - but i really do wonder how hard it must be to level and screw some cabinets to a wall? I've read the work-tops are the trickiest though.

EDIT: You last two posted before my reply. I agree wholeheartedly - which is why i was looking for opinions more than facts. I would imagine from the wording of my OP though, without being a pedant, which end of the budget scale i'm working towards...
 
You could get the kitchen for say around £3000, but it's the fitting that adds a fair chunk to that cost. We recently had a B&Q kitchen fitted, relatively small size, but I think for the units and appliances I was £2500 (There was an offer on the doors I think), then they wanted almost the same amount to fit it! So I went with someone we knew (Who actually fitted B&Q kitchens :)) and he did it for just over a grand, so not too bad in the end.

It's definitely more expensive than I originally thought and really glad we don't have a massive kitchen :p
 
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Interesting Ro55o - so you paid about a grand for an independent to fit it?

I can scrape ~£4k after the moving costs, so reckon' i could be in with a shot then. (the room may need plastering/tiling too though, but i think the plastering my brother could do).

And once everything else in the house is improved, i can return to the kitchen in ~5 years and do it properly...
 
A lot of kitchens come from the same end supplier anyway, all they do then is slap on whatever price they fancy.

Parents were going to go with homebase as they had a great offer about £900 plus fitting.

But that's it, the fitting came to £6000 on it's own.

In the end they told em to bugger off, and went with magnet who wanted £2600 all in.

Funny thing is two days later, homebase phoned back and dropped down to £4000 funny that.
 
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fit it yourself.

me and my dad fitted his kitchen and my brothers. they arn't difficult just take a bit longer than a proffesional.
 
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Cheers.

Interesting Ro55o - so you paid about a grand for an independent to fit it?

I can scrape ~£4k after the moving costs, so reckon' i could be in with a shot then. (the room may need plastering/tiling too though, but i think the plastering my brother could do).

And once everything else in the house is improved, i can return to the kitchen in ~5 years and do it properly...
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Yeah, was £1200 I think, it isn't a large kitchen though. We did the plastering/tiling (again knowing people that could do it was a god send).
 
spec'd up some ikea units using their designer, and it came to £1k including integrated dishwasher, excluding fitters.
 
We went for a cheap kitchen then stuck granit on the top. Very pleased with it, I hink we spent about £7000 on ours but about £4k was the granite. Wife just told me it was £8000.
 
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My parents have just had theirs redone and I think they said it came to around 7k that's units, fitting, re plastering the ceiling and fitting lino
 
My parents spent an absolute fortune on theirs. Hand cut marble and hand made wooden units ect ect.

could have gotten me a sports car instead (can't drive but it would have looked nice :p)
 
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