Any idea how much a kitchen can cost?

Any idea how much a kitchen can cost?

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UTH

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8,865 posts

177 months

Friday 24th July 2020
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Mark Benson said:
One visit to a Wren showroom was enough to send me to the DIY Kitchens website, we ended up with a nicer (IMO) kitchen for half the price once all the 'extras' had been taken into account by Wren.

OP, I fitted ours myself, with the help of our joiner for a day to do the worktop (we were skint at the time and went for a white melamine top rather than stone) but the actual installation, including plumbing is just a case of fitting stuff together and making sure everything is level.
I assume the plumbing will be fairly straight forward assuming I'd be putting things in a similar place to where they are now?

hotchy

4,454 posts

125 months

Friday 24th July 2020
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Mark Benson said:
DavidY said:
Andeh1 said:
This feels about right, for a wren/holdens types kitchen. Bit less for a homebase one, smidge more for a DIY Kitchens one..... But 3x or 4x that for a proper wood handcrafted solid wood jointed setup. Family member's is a thing of true beauty....tolerances involved are sufficient to make an engineer blush... But good greif twice the price & half the size of our kitchen! eek
Wren have 3 very distinct ranges

Budget - very limited colours and cabinet range
Mid - base level carcases in range of sizes and colours
Top - large range of carcases/colours

Its quite cleverly marketed in that hardly any colours are shared, so if you like one colour or want a particular cabinet fitting you are often pushed up the range, and then with the interest free credit, it will only cost you this much extra sir.........

Their charges for fitting beyond the initial kitchen are quite eye watering, tiling/floors/plumbing/electrics etc.....and if you want a Wren supplied quartz worktop..........

Certainly starts to price them well above Howdens/diy-kitchens etc


Edited by DavidY on Thursday 23 July 18:01
One visit to a Wren showroom was enough to send me to the DIY Kitchens website, we ended up with a nicer (IMO) kitchen for half the price once all the 'extras' had been taken into account by Wren.

OP, I fitted ours myself, with the help of our joiner for a day to do the worktop (we were skint at the time and went for a white melamine top rather than stone) but the actual installation, including plumbing is just a case of fitting stuff together and making sure everything is level.
I got mine from howdens, so comes built up. Glad I paid someone to sort through all the thousands of random screws, poles, pipes connectors, things I dont even know what they are. Let alone fitting the kitchen. Dread to think what it's like with ikea etc. Also the wall was so wonky the guy scribed an end panel absolutely perfectly down the wave of the wall. Dont know how he done it, with me it would have been massive sections of caulk. I'll actually take a pic later because I was so impressed someone could do that.

Although I'm now fitting my parents old kitchen down my pals work unit that has a 40 year one so I'll find out for myself if I could manage it. He doesnt care how it turns out since nobody lives there and it's just an old rotten dilapidated one currently.

Edited by hotchy on Friday 24th July 09:43

covmutley

3,012 posts

189 months

Friday 24th July 2020
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UTH said:
Is it naive to think I could choose my budget, go to one of the kitchen suppliers and get them to work to it and it won’t go over budget? Or is it like building works where everything goes well over budget and over time and nothing you can do about it?
Its tricky. Ive told this story on here more than once, but I went to Magnet and they quoted 18k, but is was 'sale time' so with 50% off cabinets it went down to 13k, excluding fitting.

They were desperate for me to sign but I went somewhere else and they bettered a quote for similar kitchen. In the end, Magnet dropped to 8k. That was for cabinets and quartz worktops, splash backs but no appliances or fitting. Actually went with a slightly more expensive one in the end as we preferred it.

I think you have to play them off each other to some extent. I think I gave a rough budget but said it was more important to get what we wanted.


motco

15,919 posts

245 months

Friday 24th July 2020
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We're intending to renovate our kitchen when the virus allows (shielding), and one thing bothers us and that's extraction. Over the hob is easy, but the oven, as it's not going to be a built under type beneath the hob, is a problem. We shall have a built-in double oven much as we have already, but with some form of extractor to prevent the whole-house cooking smell phenomenon. When a oven door is opened when a roast is being done, a huge balloon of smelly steam belches out and careers across the ceiling. Our house is weird in that it is two-storey but the entire ground floor is basement and garage, so it is effectively a bungalow. That means that the roof space can get excessively moist through any ceiling holes for lights etc.

What does the PH collective recommend for outside vented (not recirculating) extraction from a whole room rather than just the hob. We also have a Gaggenau worktop flush fryer and grill with a downdraught extractor at the moment and it's obvious that downdraught is not very effective. Both the hob and the downdraught fans running full power really don't help a lot.

ettore

4,119 posts

251 months

Friday 24th July 2020
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It’s truly staggering the difference in quotes on professionally fitted kitchen’s. I’m utterly crap at DIY and had no option when we did ours a couple of years ago.

Admittedly, it’s a swish hand built kitchen but the difference between the lowest and highest cost (for the same design and spec’) was over £100k!! In the end it made sense to use a firm in North Yorkshire who built and then installed the kitchen even though we’re in Berkshire..

UTH

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8,865 posts

177 months

Friday 24th July 2020
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ettore said:
It’s truly staggering the difference in quotes on professionally fitted kitchen’s. I’m utterly crap at DIY and had no option when we did ours a couple of years ago.

Admittedly, it’s a swish hand built kitchen but the difference between the lowest and highest cost (for the same design and spec’) was over £100k!! In the end it made sense to use a firm in North Yorkshire who built and then installed the kitchen even though we’re in Berkshire..
£100k? Ouch! Was that including some seriously pricey things like high end fittings and marble counter tops etc?

ettore

4,119 posts

251 months

Friday 24th July 2020
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UTH said:
£100k? Ouch! Was that including some seriously pricey things like high end fittings and marble counter tops etc?
Yes, I’m fussy about good quality fittings (even taps have to ‘feel’ right!) and we had a marble island which wasn’t cheap.

It was the massive difference that struck me though - we specified most of it so they were basically like for like.

abzmike

8,243 posts

105 months

Friday 24th July 2020
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ettore said:
Yes, I’m fussy about good quality fittings (even taps have to ‘feel’ right!) and we had a marble island which wasn’t cheap.

It was the massive difference that struck me though - we specified most of it so they were basically like for like.
To confirm - the diffference between high and low bids was 100K? eek
Rude to ask, but presumably this is quite a grand affair, even at the 'low' end?

Edited by abzmike on Friday 24th July 11:27

UTH

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8,865 posts

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Friday 24th July 2020
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ettore said:
UTH said:
£100k? Ouch! Was that including some seriously pricey things like high end fittings and marble counter tops etc?
Yes, I’m fussy about good quality fittings (even taps have to ‘feel’ right!) and we had a marble island which wasn’t cheap.

It was the massive difference that struck me though - we specified most of it so they were basically like for like.
Any photos? I imagine you've ended up with something pretty awesome!

ettore

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251 months

Friday 24th July 2020
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Will take some photos when I get home. I wouldn’t say it’s grand necessarily, it’s just a properly built (dovetail joints etc), quite funky kitchen using decent materials (marble, oak, American walnut, concrete, brick etc.).

We didn’t go with the cheapest either but he was definitely at the lower end!!

UTH

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177 months

Friday 24th July 2020
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I've become addicted to the room building tools ha ha

Plodding along with the DIY Kitchen one (the 3D view is annoyingly clunky and hard to navigate though) and just had a crack at the B&Q bathroom builder as well. £1,500 for a whole bathroom at B&Q sounds rather cheap to me, but maybe bathrooms are cheaper than I thought?

UTH

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8,865 posts

177 months

Friday 24th July 2020
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Can anyone who has used the DIY kitchen planning tool tell me why, even though I've set the units to Gloss White, the whole thing looks very much grey! The walls as well, set them to white, but it all looks grey!


Williamfox

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25 months

Wednesday 2nd February 2022
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I would also like to know at least the approximate cost before starting the repair

UTH

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8,865 posts

177 months

Wednesday 2nd February 2022
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Williamfox said:
I would also like to know at least the approximate cost before starting the repair
Boy, this is a blast from the past.
The design certainly changed a hell of a lot, and many many times!
Here's how it ended up:




AdeTuono

7,240 posts

226 months

Wednesday 2nd February 2022
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Williamfox said:
I would also like to know at least the approximate cost before starting the repair
You should be able to do it to that spec for £5,000, give or take. HTH. thumbup

number2

4,269 posts

186 months

Wednesday 2nd February 2022
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Looking good UTH.

Like with all things house, cost varies considerably especially considering what might and might not be included:

1) remove and dispose of old kitchen?
2) remove and replace floor?
3) radiators, UFH?
4) plastering, ceiling?
5) new lighting, more sockets etc?
6) installation of kitchen?
7) kitchen units?
8) appliances?
9) decorating?
10) worktops?
11) sockets and switches?


jason61c

5,978 posts

173 months

Thursday 17th February 2022
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neal1980

2,574 posts

238 months

Thursday 17th February 2022
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I did mine recently I reckon I'm about 10k...units 3.5 from DIY then 3k for quartz from purple then everything else...I'm really pleased...





bristolbaron

4,757 posts

211 months

Thursday 17th February 2022
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We’re at the ‘design is almost finalised’ stage with Howdens and have just had a price through. Lamona appliances, all your standard kitchen stuff - oven/hob/dw/tall fridge/tall freezer, but no worktops - they’ve come back at 11k laugh

The guys assuring me this is a ‘good’ rate, with little movement, but I’ve submitted the details to DIY for a comparison.


bennno

11,515 posts

268 months

Friday 18th February 2022
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bristolbaron said:
We’re at the ‘design is almost finalised’ stage with Howdens and have just had a price through. Lamona appliances, all your standard kitchen stuff - oven/hob/dw/tall fridge/tall freezer, but no worktops - they’ve come back at 11k laugh

The guys assuring me this is a ‘good’ rate, with little movement, but I’ve submitted the details to DIY for a comparison.

Lamont appliances are crappy. You really want Bosch / neff / Siemens or zanussi / hotpoint if price main issue.induction not electric hob.

What’s on the other side of the wall with sink, if it’s an external wall there I’d swap over hob and sink to enable an extractor to be fitted.