Wren kitchen, best time to buy, now or post Xmas sale?
Discussion
When we bought our house, there was a Howdens kitchen installed in the previous couple of years, not completely our style, but we budgeted to replace the crappy worktops with quartz.
Unfortunately, due to complete shoddyness with the floor tiling (suspended floors), over the first few months after moving in, the grout started breaking up and now the tiles are loose and a couple have cracked in half. (it's now become obvious they re-grouted to hide the problem, but this obviously didn't fix the issue which we believe is not laying thick enough ply or not using flexible adhesive).
We were going to just have the kitchen removed and reinstalled, then got a quote from Howdens for a new kitchen, but have now ended up in Wren having a design appointment and we're happy with the final result, it actually came in a lot cheaper than expected.
My query is should we buy now, or wait until boxing day sales. They have 25% off quartz at the moment and also 50% off units if you buy more than 5, but i'm wondering if this is a kind of permanent sale that some companies seem to do all the time and actually post xmas will be even better. Our quote came out at £14k originally (kitchen, quartz and appliances) and went down to £9,600 after discounts.
Also, they seem to be quite good at price matching on appliances, so obviously there is a chance they will go down in price in the sales and even if the kitchens aren't cheaper, the appliances will be.
They say the price is fixed but i'm just wondering if they may have targets to hit before xmas and i could say I'll wait until after xmas to try and get a better deal. The downside to waiting until after xmas is there will be longer waits for delivery.
For anyone that didn't know, Wren close on the 14th until after xmas because all employees have to do 3 weeks solid in the sales apparently.
Anyone been in a similar siltation with them before?
Unfortunately, due to complete shoddyness with the floor tiling (suspended floors), over the first few months after moving in, the grout started breaking up and now the tiles are loose and a couple have cracked in half. (it's now become obvious they re-grouted to hide the problem, but this obviously didn't fix the issue which we believe is not laying thick enough ply or not using flexible adhesive).
We were going to just have the kitchen removed and reinstalled, then got a quote from Howdens for a new kitchen, but have now ended up in Wren having a design appointment and we're happy with the final result, it actually came in a lot cheaper than expected.
My query is should we buy now, or wait until boxing day sales. They have 25% off quartz at the moment and also 50% off units if you buy more than 5, but i'm wondering if this is a kind of permanent sale that some companies seem to do all the time and actually post xmas will be even better. Our quote came out at £14k originally (kitchen, quartz and appliances) and went down to £9,600 after discounts.
Also, they seem to be quite good at price matching on appliances, so obviously there is a chance they will go down in price in the sales and even if the kitchens aren't cheaper, the appliances will be.
They say the price is fixed but i'm just wondering if they may have targets to hit before xmas and i could say I'll wait until after xmas to try and get a better deal. The downside to waiting until after xmas is there will be longer waits for delivery.
For anyone that didn't know, Wren close on the 14th until after xmas because all employees have to do 3 weeks solid in the sales apparently.
Anyone been in a similar siltation with them before?
AGK said:
Some light reading as you tie the laces on your running shoes,
https://www.facebook.com/groups/583631408428050/
Wow! https://www.facebook.com/groups/583631408428050/
Thanks for all of the comments so far. We were never going to use Wren for the installation, they quoted £4k and admitted straight away it was ridiculous, but we were not 100% happy on the design in the end, the colour we really wanted was in the premium range and so we've decided to give Wren a miss, being pointed in the direction of the above fb group was a bit of an eye opener also!
We'll use the layout we designed with Wren as we were happy with the changes we made in that respect, but buy the units from DIY kitchens.
Thanks again
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