Wickes kitchen contracted installer quote - WOW.

skap7309

Ok guys if someone could just have a quick look through this quote i had for some work required in addition to fitting a new kitchen from Wickes.

Basically im having an external door bricked up, serving hatch blocked up, condenser boiler moved 3ft into the corner of the room along the same wall. This covers brickwork, electrical work and plastering. I must stress this is ontop of costs to fit the kitchen (which im happy with - £1900) but straight away i can see its wildly inflated. When i signed up to the kitchen i was quoted around £2700 to do this work, the contractors came round and without adding hardly anything work-wise, the cost has shot up to over £4000. I had a word with him stressing my concern and he wont budge even £1. I can understand it wont be easy to give an 100% accurate estimate on here but £760 to brick a door up and the old boiler flue area (13 odd bricks)?! :eek: £865 to plaster not even half a 3.5m x 3.5m room and ceiling:eek:?!

If i could kindly ask to have a look at the quote below - feel free to put in your own estimate beside his ones

Remove external door from kitchen to garden

Remove cut bricks and mortar to prepare for new bricks to be keyed into wall

Using clients bricks brick external wall where existing door is situated

When boiler flue is removed remove existing bricks and prepare bricks to key new ones in

Using clients bricks key in bricks to existing boiler flue area

When new hole is core drilled cut bricks out to prepare for keying new bricks

Using clients bricks key in bricks to new location of flue

Client to have sand and cement available correct to his requirements for us to use

Disposal cost



Cost

760

Relocate existing boiler as per plan

Relocate pipework to newly located boiler

Install condense pipe to newly located boiler



Cost

450

Patch ceiling where applicable in preparation for skimming of ceiling

Skim kitchen ceiling

Skim 3 walls in kitchen not internal door wall above base unit height

Make good wall behind freestanding fridge

Remove radiator leave brackets on the wall and re-fit after skimming of wall

Block up hatch from kitchen to dining room

Skim dining room one wall where hatch was

Box in plaster board boiler pipework in corner of room and skim

865

Wickes dedicated prices for additional works



D/washer and w/machine

246

Extractor power

62

Oven yours requires 6mm cable to your socket (Wickes price £154)

62

Ceramic hob

154

Under cabinet / strip lighting x 24 charge for 12

120

Power to 24 plinth lights on single switch

82

Extend ring main

71

Consumer unit

451

Mains earth bonding

150

Remove existing wall tiles

64

Ceramic tile as discussed

108

Lay clients supplied click real wood flooring and underlay

360



1930

Cost of additional works

4005

skap7309

No-one with any rough ideas?

Leif

£865 to replaster half your kitchen is excessive. I paid about £600 for an entire 3.5m x 3m kitchen. The cost to fill a serving hatch was £65 + VAT. Get multiple quotes.

plumb1_2

£2k tops for a builder and RGI to move the boiler.
Get some other quotes, as you could have the work done before the kitchen is installed.

cox377

very dear

I paid £250 for plastering down south for a 5*3M kitchen walls and ceiling inc materials.

Excellent job.

cddc

Speak to the designer who sold you the kitchen, explain you think he is taking the !!!! with with some of the non standard pricing on the addtional works. It might get you somewhere, it would in my store!,especially if you threaten to cancel the kitchen because the add. works figure is unreasonably high.

Wickes standard additional works pricing is established so the fitters can't rip you off, but there a still a few who think they can with the non standard bits.

Had a local one who tried that on some of my customers. He no longer does. Not if he wants me to get him fits!
(As you may gather I work as a design consultant for Wickes and it !!!!es me off when the fitters try it on with the add. works!)

macmaintenace

Leif wrote: »

£865 to replaster half your kitchen is excessive. I paid about £600 for an entire 3.5m x 3m kitchen. The cost to fill a serving hatch was £65 + VAT. Get multiple quotes.

i know it was 2011, but look again at the work carried out skimmed dinning room, boxed pipes in, etc.. not just skimming a kitchen, materials sir..

macmaintenace

skap7309 wrote: »

Ok guys if someone could just have a quick look through this quote i had for some work required in addition to fitting a new kitchen from Wickes.

Basically im having an external door bricked up, serving hatch blocked up, condenser boiler moved 3ft into the corner of the room along the same wall. This covers brickwork, electrical work and plastering. I must stress this is ontop of costs to fit the kitchen (which im happy with - £1900) but straight away i can see its wildly inflated. When i signed up to the kitchen i was quoted around £2700 to do this work, the contractors came round and without adding hardly anything work-wise, the cost has shot up to over £4000. I had a word with him stressing my concern and he wont budge even £1. I can understand it wont be easy to give an 100% accurate estimate on here but £760 to brick a door up and the old boiler flue area (13 odd bricks)?! :eek: £865 to plaster not even half a 3.5m x 3.5m room and ceiling:eek:?!

If i could kindly ask to have a look at the quote below - feel free to put in your own estimate beside his ones

Remove external door from kitchen to garden

Remove cut bricks and mortar to prepare for new bricks to be keyed into wall

Using clients bricks brick external wall where existing door is situated

When boiler flue is removed remove existing bricks and prepare bricks to key new ones in

Using clients bricks key in bricks to existing boiler flue area

When new hole is core drilled cut bricks out to prepare for keying new bricks

Using clients bricks key in bricks to new location of flue

Client to have sand and cement available correct to his requirements for us to use

Disposal cost



Cost

760

Relocate existing boiler as per plan

Relocate pipework to newly located boiler

Install condense pipe to newly located boiler



Cost

450

Patch ceiling where applicable in preparation for skimming of ceiling

Skim kitchen ceiling

Skim 3 walls in kitchen not internal door wall above base unit height

Make good wall behind freestanding fridge

Remove radiator leave brackets on the wall and re-fit after skimming of wall

Block up hatch from kitchen to dining room

Skim dining room one wall where hatch was

Box in plaster board boiler pipework in corner of room and skim

865

Wickes dedicated prices for additional works



D/washer and w/machine

246

Extractor power

62

Oven yours requires 6mm cable to your socket (Wickes price £154)

62

Ceramic hob

154

Under cabinet / strip lighting x 24 charge for 12

120

Power to 24 plinth lights on single switch

82

Extend ring main

71

Consumer unit

451

Mains earth bonding

150

Remove existing wall tiles

64

Ceramic tile as discussed

108

Lay clients supplied click real wood flooring and underlay

360



1930

Cost of additional works

4005

noone can give a quote on this.. and i dont use wikes any more.. kitchen designers dont have a clue 3 kitchens ive had and problems with the design of all, this is old i know but how can people on a forum know what work was needed doing. makes me laugh really.. id like to ring these people that give these answers and ask them to quote me.. and not look at the job.
bet they are different on the phone to clients wanting prices than clients that have had prices on here... i only signed up to comment..
also guy down south.. 250 quid for entire kitchen and ceiling.. think your daft in the head mate. or just telling porkeys , or not true spreaders. ill tell you if it was a good job.. never read so much rubbish in all my life,,