Estimated cost of kitchen install

Estimated cost of kitchen install

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CAPP0

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19,532 posts

202 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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Can anyone help with a ballpark figure for the cost of a kitchen install please? I only have one quote at present and I'm finding it difficult to get anyone else to quote! I just want to know whether the current quote is of the right order.

It's to rip out the existing, then install:

- 5 base units
- 2 integrated appliances (all plumbing in place)
- 1 oven tower
- 5 wall units, once to include built-in microwave
- 2 worktops, one will have sink and hob cutouts required

At present the quote I have does not include any tiling, flooring, power or lighting costs, so if I stick to that then I get a decent comparison. The work is in the South East (I now rates vary across the country).

TIA.

B17NNS

18,506 posts

246 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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£1500.

BoRED S2upid

19,643 posts

239 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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That sounds very similar size to my last kitchen. I ripped everything out myself (that's the easy bit) so you have to factor that back in but it took one guy 2 - 3 days and I paid him £500 to fit it all back in then a separate electrician, plumber and tiler.

This is likely to be on the low side.

Yazar

1,476 posts

119 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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If existing kitchen is decent and usable then stick it up on ebay for 99p and you may get it taken out for free.

jshell

11,006 posts

204 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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B17NNS said:
£1500.
That's what it cost me for 6 wall units, 12 base units, 3 full length units a bookshelf and the oven, hob, washer, dishwasher and boiler unit by an Ashley Ann fitter.

B17NNS

18,506 posts

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Friday 30th January 2015
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jshell said:
That's what it cost me for 6 wall units, 12 base units, 3 full length units a bookshelf and the oven, hob, washer, dishwasher and boiler unit by an Ashley Ann fitter.
I loaded my guesstimate for the SE.

CAPP0

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202 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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Yes, I wouldn't have any issue doing the rip-out myself.

Current (only) quote is higher than anything mentioned here so far! I thought it seemed pricey.

jshell

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204 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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B17NNS said:
jshell said:
That's what it cost me for 6 wall units, 12 base units, 3 full length units a bookshelf and the oven, hob, washer, dishwasher and boiler unit by an Ashley Ann fitter.
I loaded my guesstimate for the SE.
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BoRED S2upid

19,643 posts

239 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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CAPP0 said:
Yes, I wouldn't have any issue doing the rip-out myself.

Current (only) quote is higher than anything mentioned here so far! I thought it seemed pricey.
What was it and how did they justify it? How many men and how many days?

My guy under estimated and I ended up helping him for a few hours it should have been another half day.

CAPP0

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Friday 30th January 2015
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£1900 for 2 guys/approx 4 days. So that's £235-ish per man day. Is that a little on the high side? I'm quite out of touch with tradesman costs.

vescaegg

25,489 posts

166 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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£1000 max.

One guy will do that in 3ish days if he is any good.

Edited by vescaegg on Friday 30th January 14:52

BoRED S2upid

19,643 posts

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Friday 30th January 2015
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It's probably there or there abouts especially in the SE. Sounds to me like you and a mate rip it out and take it down the skip then you ask for a new quote which is less than £1500 wink

I bet they wouldn't have taken 4 days but you would have still been paying.

CAPP0

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Friday 30th January 2015
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OK, thanks for the input, I'll have a little haggle smile

Yazar

1,476 posts

119 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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vescaegg said:
£1000 max.

One guy will do that in 3ish days if he is any good.

Edited by vescaegg on Friday 30th January 14:52
Op hasn't said the type of worktop I.e weight or shape. Aren't some of them heavy so need 2 people.

vescaegg

25,489 posts

166 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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Yazar said:
vescaegg said:
£1000 max.

One guy will do that in 3ish days if he is any good.

Edited by vescaegg on Friday 30th January 14:52
Op hasn't said the type of worktop I.e weight or shape. Aren't some of them heavy so need 2 people.
Im sure OP would give the guy a hand if they are solid oak etc which are heavy wink anything else which requires cut outs done are light.

Yazar

1,476 posts

119 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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Makes sense. Just though he may be one of those phers who has rock from the moon specially ordered in or something biggrin

CAPP0

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Friday 30th January 2015
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Yazar said:
Just though he may be one of those phers who has rock from the moon specially ordered in or something biggrin
God no, I'm not that common, moon rock worktops are so last year….. tongue out

(Laminate!)

Neil - YVM

1,310 posts

198 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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CAPP0 said:
Can anyone help with a ballpark figure for the cost of a kitchen install please? I only have one quote at present and I'm finding it difficult to get anyone else to quote! I just want to know whether the current quote is of the right order.

It's to rip out the existing, then install:

- 5 base units
- 2 integrated appliances (all plumbing in place)
- 1 oven tower
- 5 wall units, once to include built-in microwave
- 2 worktops, one will have sink and hob cutouts required

At present the quote I have does not include any tiling, flooring, power or lighting costs, so if I stick to that then I get a decent comparison. The work is in the South East (I now rates vary across the country).

TIA.
Who is fitting the hob sink extractor oven fridge washing machine dishwasher?

Are the Worktops joined / mitred?

Who is removing all the waste?

Assuming there is an extractor, is it to recirculate or vent to outside. And if outside is the hole already there?

singlecoil

33,313 posts

245 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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Neil is right, impossible to guess a quote based on the small amount of info given so far.

darreni

3,759 posts

269 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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I paid £1200 7 years ago, 4x 900 units, 9x 600 units, plus wall units, plinths, skirting etc.

No plumbing, electrics, tiling or work tops in that fitting price.

It was probably the cheapest part of doing the kitchen, but imo, the most important.

A good fitter will make a cheap kitchen look great. A bad one can ruin the whole thing.