Dream Doors kitchen refurb

[Monkeylegend]

Anyone had any experience with Dream Doors good or otherwise. They have given us a cost for refurbishing our kitchen, but seem a bit shifty on cost breakdown.

I have the feeling they will get near the end of installation and discover costs which were not included in the original quote.

Any feedback would be helpful before I commit to anything. They want 50% up front which maybe is the norm for kitchens?

[Monkeylegend]

Blakeatron said:

We do a lot of door replacements - we even have a division specialising in it called 'kitchen skin'.

As above has said it is only really worth doing if your carcasses and drawers are in good condition.

They should give you an exact breakdown of doors, panels etc

The carcases and drawers are all in good condition. We have 19 units of various sizes, and about 8 metres of worktop, so a full replacement is going to be well north of £10k I think.

Dream Doors have quoted us £5.2k for the doors, worktops, end panels, cornices, pelmets etc, sink, oven hob, including fitting and VAT, but refuse to break it down any further. I can extract the cost of the sink and hob from this, which means they are doing the rest for about £4.5k. That seemed almost too cheap to me, but I have read a couple of iffy reviews which makes me a tad nervous about getting it half fitted, then being hit with some hidden costs.

I see you are based in Cumbria, do you cover just that area local to you?

[Monkeylegend]

HumbleJim said:

I looked at a kitchen refurb company to do this and found them really exensive. So ordered doors from the internet (measuring hinges and non std stuff carefully) a decorator fitted and painted them and had a chippy in to fit a new worktop.

It wasn't expensive but looks much better than most budget/mid price kitchens. 10yrs on still looks ok and if I fancy a change or the doors get chipped I can repaint it easily enough.

Later on when funds allowed I replaced the hob, oven and sink. I would like to re-tile but Mrs HJ likes the ones we've got.

One bonus is not much upheaval and the kitchen was useble each evening.

I am beginning to think this is the better way to go, just got to convince the other half that I am capable.