Replacing kitchen & some building work

smallblueplanet

I've just had a quote for the (mainly) labour to fit a replacement kitchen in a 1.83m x 3.54m L-shaped kitchen, plus replacing a couple of c.2m worktops in the attached dining room...I'm not sure what to think.

This is a quote to do the following –

• Remove existing kitchen
• Take down ceiling
• Electrician to do first fix
• Fit new ceiling
• (Skim - my addition) Plaster walls and ceiling
• Plumber to fit new stop !!!!
• Fit new kitchen (about 8 units - my addition)
• Fit new worktops in other room
• Tile above kitchen worktops
• Tile kitchen floor
• Electrician to do second fix
• Paint walls, ceiling and woodwork (no doors in kitchen)

Materials include plaster, beads, scrim, disposal of waste, tile adhesive, grout and all paint needed for the job

Labour £ 3,550.00
Materials £ 480.00
TOTAL £4,030.00

Comments please.

cattie

Sounds reasonable to me as the average price for kitchen fitting seems to be around the £2,500-£3000 mark for an average sized room, and thats without tiling and plastering etc. Your quote includes materials, so you know there will be no add ons. Even things like tile grouting can be very expensive.

smallblueplanet

cattie wrote: »

Sounds reasonable to me as the average price for kitchen fitting seems to be around the £2,500-£3000 mark for an average sized room, and thats without tiling and plastering etc. Your quote includes materials, so you know there will be no add ons. Even things like tile grouting can be very expensive.

Really? But it's not average room it's small. From looking on here and listening to what other builders who came to quote said the plastering was only a days work (he actually said if it was just the ceiling it was half a day but he's get charged for a day so I may as well have the walls skimmed). Tiling quotes on here are about £25/m2 and there can't be more than 10m2. There's maybe a day's worth of electrics, etc, etc...

I feel the guy either didn't want the work or was trying it on...

Home_Designer_David

smallblueplanet wrote: »

I've just had a quote for the (mainly) labour to fit a replacement kitchen in a 1.83m x 3.54m L-shaped kitchen, plus replacing a couple of c.2m worktops in the attached dining room...I'm not sure what to think.

This is a quote to do the following –

• Remove existing kitchen
• Take down ceiling
• Electrician to do first fix
• Fit new ceiling
• (Skim - my addition) Plaster walls and ceiling
• Plumber to fit new stop !!!!
• Fit new kitchen (about 8 units - my addition)
• Fit new worktops in other room
• Tile above kitchen worktops
• Tile kitchen floor
• Electrician to do second fix
• Paint walls, ceiling and woodwork (no doors in kitchen)

Materials include plaster, beads, scrim, disposal of waste, tile adhesive, grout and all paint needed for the job

Labour £ 3,550.00
Materials £ 480.00
TOTAL £4,030.00

Comments please.

I think this would seem a fair price not cheap, but I would never go with a cheap quote, ask to see some of the work carried out and if you are happy witht the standard of work go with it.

smallblueplanet

Home_Designer_David wrote: »

I think this would seem a fair price not cheap, but I would never go with a cheap quote, ask to see some of the work carried out and if you are happy witht the standard of work go with it.

How long do you think it would take a fitter to fit (approx) 2 wall units and 3 or 4 base units? Plus worktop of 3.5m? Plus 2 runs of 2m in a run replacing old worktop.

Thanks.

martinthebandit

Doesn't seem an unreasonably over the top quote to me.

But hey if you are sure the job is that easy you could always do it yourself.

Or you could get another couple of quotes and compare them.

smallblueplanet

martinthebandit wrote: »

Doesn't seem an unreasonably over the top quote to me.

But hey if you are sure the job is that easy you could always do it yourself.

Or you could get another couple of quotes and compare them.

Yes I'm sure I could do it myself thank you. But I prefer to pay a professional!

What I don't prefer is to pay over the odds prices!

Edit - oh and perhaps from that quote you can tell me what electrical work is being quoted for?

There are other quotes but I wanted an idea of the time the work would take so I chose to discuss this quote.

martinthebandit

smallblueplanet wrote: »

Yes I'm sure I could do it myself thank you. But I prefer to pay a professional!

What I don't prefer is to pay over the odds prices!

Edit - oh and perhaps from that quote you can tell me what electrical work is being quoted for?

There are other quotes but I wanted an idea of the time the work would take so I chose to discuss this quote.

Well I would assume that as a ceiling is being taken down and tiles removed etc etc there will be light fittings and sockets to replace/refit etc, as he has quoted for both first fix and second fix I suspect both of them are not going to be straightforward jobs.

Are you having additional sockets put in etc etc?

smallblueplanet

martinthebandit wrote: »

Well I would assume that as a ceiling is being taken down and tiles removed etc etc there will be light fittings and sockets to replace/refit etc, as he has quoted for both first fix and second fix I suspect both of them are not going to be straightforward jobs.

Are you having additional sockets put in etc etc?

Maybe one and some, including the cooker switch, moved down a bit - my point was how could I agree a quote like that, even if I thought the price was fair when I have no idea what it actually includes.

I don't think I'll be taking this bloke up on his offer - I was chatting with the neighbours who had their housing association kitchen re-done recently but similar spec to ours, it took them less than a week all in.

Steve_the_fitter

Each kitchen is different to the next but £4k is a lot to fit a small kitchen even with electrics and plastering

smallblueplanet

Thanks Steve - plus that's fitting a rigid kitchen not a flat pack...

I just wanted to get some views from professionals, if possible. I'll be hoping the other quotes have more detailed breakdowns of cost.