Relocating a Kitchen

RedTen

RedTen

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I'm debating moving or renovating and the latter could potentially include moving the kitchen from the front of the house to the rear.

Has anyone ever gone through it? How painful is it? I'd be happy to ditch gas and move to an induction hob, and the room I'd move it to already houses the boiler, so presumably water would be easy-ish?!

Cheers

RT
 
Kitchen on to the back garden is much more favourable for me for the months when you're eating outside and not having to traipse through the house.

Anything is possible, but if the gas, electrics and water are there then it makes it a lot easier!
 
K.C. Leblanc said:
Are there drains at the back of the house?
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I'm not 100% sure. There's a rodding point in the garden just behind the garage and I can get at least 6-7m of rod down it. It runs directly under the garage and towards the front drive. I think the manhole is on the driveway.

Current plans here if easier. Yellow: Rodding point and direction of pipe. Red: Combi boiler. Blue: Approx location of kitchen units/sink if moved.
 
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I've managed to find the drainage plans from the original build. It doesn't look good - at the front and across my neighbours drive:

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We did not so much as move it, but took it from a galley kitchen with no back door, to one that is now 5m X 5m with a backdoor.
Gas, electric and waste was not too much of an issue as we had a blank canvas and the floor up and walls bare.

Could you not open yours into an open plan kitchen, dining and living area.

Can you get access to under the floor or is it block & beam?
 
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RedTen said:
I've managed to find the drainage plans from the original build. It doesn't look good - at the front and across my neighbours drive:

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No foul drainage to the rear of the house. I doubt you can move your kitchen to the rear unless you extend the foul too, which would be at great cost and disruption, not to mention it's not a given you have enough fall in the invert levels.
 
RedTen said:
I've managed to find the drainage plans from the original build. It doesn't look good - at the front and across my neighbours drive:

YPiiHcc.jpg
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No foul drainage to the rear of the house. I doubt you can move your kitchen to the rear unless you extend the foul too, which would be at great cost and disruption, not to mention it's not a given you have enough fall in the invert levels
 
I've done that.

The main reason I did it was the room I moved it to was larger. But the house had a plant room which happened to be right next to the new kitchen, so there was no problem plumbing in hot water and electricity. I put in a new ring for the kitchen and of course a supply for an electric cooker and gas, all of which came from the plant room. The only problem the room had was it's distance from the drains, which these days is not so much of a problem because you can even pump it to wherever you need it to go.
 
Thanks all. I've agreed some time with an architect so they can tell me what's possible. It looks like I could use a Saniflow style pump but I'd still need to think about the route across the house.

I'll update as/when I decide on what to do!
 
RedTen said:
Thanks all. I've agreed some time with an architect so they can tell me what's possible. It looks like I could use a Saniflow style pump but I'd still need to think about the route across the house.

I'll update as/when I decide on what to do!
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I can only speak of one experience of having been in a property with a domestic saniflo unit and it was dreadful, blocking every few months.
 
DB_SamX said:
I can only speak of one experience of having been in a property with a domestic saniflo unit and it was dreadful, blocking every few months.
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My experience was it sounded like a tractor when it kicked in
 
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