Price for fitting a kitchen

FreeworldImpossible

Hi, we're soon to be having our kitchen and dining room knocked into one. The completed room will be 4.7m x 3.5m. The wall to come down has a gas pipe and heating controls on it, which a mate is going to relocate for me. One of my other mates though has quoted me £2800 for the following work. Does it seem fair?

• Remove existing kitchen
• Uplift existing laminate floor
• Remove ceiling and reboard
• Remove existing block wall and door frame
• Make good floor after the removal of the wall
• Remove skirtings and replace with new
• Remove existing wall tiles
• Reduce pipe boxing
• Install new kitchen (supplied by yourself)
• Reinstall washer/dryer
• Install new sink (supplied by yourself)
• Fix new wall tiles (supplied by yourself)
• Cap of existing pipes (pipes protruding from ceiling)
• Make good boxing around perimeter of the ceiling
• Supply 1no skip
• Leave site clean and tidy

Seem fair?? This is a cash price too apparently!!! :mad: Obviously I can supply the skip myself, uplift my own flooring, remove my own tiles and what not to try and reduce it, but I wasn't expecting him to quote this much.

deano19690

seems a little high,
theres plenty on there you could easily do yourself,
such as rip out cupboards, remove old flooring , door and frame and even knock down the block wall (sledge hammer will be handy)
you could do all that in a good days work or maybe a weekend
then load your own skip and leave him to do the rest.... if the price is right

taker920

Having something very similar done (22 units in all) but have gutted the old kitchen myself. Paying £1,650, doesn't include a skip but does include a kitchen rewire and will hopefully be clean and tidy!

olias

Is your first mate gas safe registered?

Is the wall load bearing? You don't mention any support ie RSJ etc.
Are you knocking through to an outhouse or lean to? If so is that single skinned brickwork? If so you need to bring it up to spec with regard to insulation etc.

This, together with kncking down a wall will beed building control approval. Has he mentioned that?

Olias

FreeworldImpossible

olias wrote: »

Is your first mate gas safe registered?

Is the wall load bearing? You don't mention any support ie RSJ etc.
Are you knocking through to an outhouse or lean to? If so is that single skinned brickwork? If so you need to bring it up to spec with regard to insulation etc.

This, together with kncking down a wall will beed building control approval. Has he mentioned that?

Olias

No, he's not gas safe registered. But there's no gas involved. The wall that's coming down is between our kitchen and dining room. None load bearing! There's a gas pipe within the wall, but I'm getting that capped off by a gas fitter/plumber before the wall comes down as we're having an induction hob and electric double oven fitted. I say it's not a load bearing wall, as it runs parallel to the joists and there's no wall above it. Plus all the other houses of our type that have had the wall out have done so without an RSJ installed. Would I still need approval for removing this wall?

Now whittled the price down to £1900 is I remove my kitchen, tiles and laminate flooring.

olias

Wouldn't have thought you need building regs if it's not load bearing. If you are installing a new electric circuit for the oven and hob however, then I think this needs to be installed by an electrician as you are no longer allowed to DIY it (something to do with part p? - mentioned quite often by sparkies on this forum)

Olias

FreeworldImpossible

olias wrote: »

Wouldn't have thought you need building regs if it's not load bearing. If you are installing a new electric circuit for the oven and hob however, then I think this needs to be installed by an electrician as you are no longer allowed to DIY it (something to do with part p? - mentioned quite often by sparkies on this forum)

Olias

Yes. Though there's already a circuit in the kitchen and it's merely a case of moving the sockets about. Does that require notification as it's in a kitchen? There'll also be some 10-12 downlights going in too. I have an electrician doing the work, however, he is a gaffer for the council, and is certified for this work, but will he be covered for a "guvvy" job such as this and supply the relevant paperwork??

timmmers

Anyone can do the lecky work...as long as it is certified by someone qualified, so worse case scenario would be your mate doing the work, then paying someone a few quid more to check it and certify it.

If he is certified for council work then it's very likely he can do it anyway since they are hot on H&S matters usually..my mate works on council street lighting and can do it. They all must do foreigners eh ?

t

waynehayes

timmmers wrote: »

Anyone can do the lecky work...as long as it is certified by someone qualified, so worse case scenario would be your mate doing the work, then paying someone a few quid more to check it and certify it.

If he is certified for council work then it's very likely he can do it anyway since they are hot on H&S matters usually..my mate works on council street lighting and can do it. They all must do foreigners eh ?

t

Any decent electrician won't give a certificate for someone elses work. Many do, but they shouldn't.