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kitchen installation shock
black_taxi_2
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price £2800 for kitchen instalation---kitchen sale price £2400
you needed oxford maths degree too have a chance of working out prices
3 diff standards/small print on sales reductions.
only told total price £5200-not instalation price
shocked when i found out
lets just say salesman-wasnt after my interests
a well known DIY
extremely dis-appointed
TRUST NO ONE
you needed oxford maths degree too have a chance of working out prices
3 diff standards/small print on sales reductions.
only told total price £5200-not instalation price
shocked when i found out
lets just say salesman-wasnt after my interests
a well known DIY
extremely dis-appointed
TRUST NO ONE
£48515 interest £181 (2009)debt/mortgage-MFIT/T2/T3
debt/mortgage free 28/11/14
vanguard shares index isa £1000
credit union £400
emergency fund£500
#81 save 2018£4200
debt/mortgage free 28/11/14
vanguard shares index isa £1000
credit union £400
emergency fund£500
#81 save 2018£4200
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ALL of the sheds are expensive for their installation services, due to the fact they a) take a cut of the installation charge and b) put a margin on the installation in the first place. You're better off getting a local fitter to install the kitchen for you...
I think "TRUST NO ONE" is a bit harsh, maybe you should change it to "DON'T TRUST THE SHEDS"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands
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Why are you shocked? You were told the total price was £5200, including installation. Surely you realised that labour is an expensive commodity - 'It's not your parts, it's your labour', as the saying goes."You were only supposed to blow the bl**dy doors off!!"0
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I have worked within the kitchen industry since I left school, some 25 years ago now! Like with everything, you get what you pay for. If you buy from a kitchen specialist shop, then of course you will receive specialist design and advice. If you buy from a shop that sells everything from cement to pot plants, they cannot give you the same level of expertise. Any fitter working for the 'sheds' will tell you that they inflate the price because generally the the cabinets will need to be modified to fit the kitchen, something will be missing or supplied wrongly, and will involve at least one return visit to finish. All of this has to be costed in.
Buy from a specialist, who will measure, design and take responsibility for his errors, and the fitter will charge half of the price quoted (no return visits, no headaches, no problems, etc).
Good luck !0 -
wasnt given--installation cost
also charged £250 fee up-front--for measurement of kitchen in flat£48515 interest £181 (2009)debt/mortgage-MFIT/T2/T3
debt/mortgage free 28/11/14
vanguard shares index isa £1000
credit union £400
emergency fund£500
#81 save 2018£42000 -
black_taxi wrote: »wasnt given--installation cost
also charged £250 fee up-front--for measurement of kitchen in flat
OMG no company I have ever worked for has charged for measuring and I worked for a shed and a couple of independents...If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands
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homebase --salesman/contract fitter £250
you lose money if you cancel kitchen£48515 interest £181 (2009)debt/mortgage-MFIT/T2/T3
debt/mortgage free 28/11/14
vanguard shares index isa £1000
credit union £400
emergency fund£500
#81 save 2018£42000 -
its called a kitchen survey deposit£48515 interest £181 (2009)debt/mortgage-MFIT/T2/T3
debt/mortgage free 28/11/14
vanguard shares index isa £1000
credit union £400
emergency fund£500
#81 save 2018£42000 -
black_taxi wrote: »price £2800 for kitchen instalation---kitchen sale price £2400
you needed oxford maths degree too have a chance of working out prices
3 diff standards/small print on sales reductions.
only told total price £5200-not instalation price
shocked when i found out
lets just say salesman-wasnt after my interests
a well known DIY
extremely dis-appointed
TRUST NO ONE
That sounds expensive to me
my kitchen i'm told is average size, got units in sale approx £1500
got independent fitter (names given to me by supplier of cupboards)
£750 3 days work max
extremely pleased with the job and the cupboards all good quality and no charge to measure, mine done through wicks.0 -
black_taxi wrote: »its called a kitchen survey deposit
And you payed it!!!!!!!!!!:eek:
I would have told them where to put their 'kitchen survey deposit' and gone elsewhere.0 -
theres free measurement by company(wasnt told)
if you use there contractors(+£250 fee)£48515 interest £181 (2009)debt/mortgage-MFIT/T2/T3
debt/mortgage free 28/11/14
vanguard shares index isa £1000
credit union £400
emergency fund£500
#81 save 2018£42000
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