Kitchen Refit

keystone

loveprada wrote: »

Thank you for your responses. KDR - I really appreciate this and I'm happy to wait till Monday.
Guess what - my latest quote came in today at over £7k from an independent (one-man) fitter to fit an Ikea kitchen. What planet do these people come from? Assuming the work takes 2 weeks, Do kitchen fitters charge £3.5k per week these days? That's £100 per hour for a 35 hr week.

What does this kitchen consist of? How many each of worktop lengths, mitres, wall cabs, base cabs, applinaces, sinks, plinth length, pelmet and cornice length in metres etc etc. Does the scope of work include sripping old out, removing old tiles, rewiring, replastering, replumbing (water or gas) etc etc etc etc etc. Retiling afterwards, wall and floor and what area? Tile material, tile substrate, decorate remainder of room??

If you don't detail whats actually involved its kinda impossible to advise whether your £2k or the £7k quoted is correct or whether its somewhere in between.

Cheers

tlh858

loveprada wrote: »

Guess what - my latest quote came in today at over £7k from an independent (one-man) fitter to fit an Ikea kitchen.

That sounds like a quote from someone who doesn't want the job at all.

Some people will quote silly high prices rather than say they don't want the job, as very rarely, someone will actually take the quote for the massive price.

southcoastrgi

suki1964 wrote: »

What's with the personal attacks here?

The op asked for advice. Not asked for a character assassination

because they are not asking for advice they are knocking every company that has come out to price & they are telling them how much it should cost, they think it should be 2-3k why ? where has that amount come from ? the work involved may cost £7k none of us here know the work involved, plus they will quite happly spend a fortune on a fridge when a £400 one isn't good enough then moan & get angry at the fitting price, sometimes if you want your kitchen to look like a footballers mansion then you have to pay for it, you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear.

suki1964

southcoastrgi wrote: »

because they are not asking for advice they are knocking every company that has come out to price & they are telling them how much it should cost, they think it should be 2-3k why ? where has that amount come from ? the work involved may cost £7k none of us here know the work involved, plus they will quite happly spend a fortune on a fridge when a £400 one isn't good enough then moan & get angry at the fitting price, sometimes if you want your kitchen to look like a footballers mansion then you have to pay for it, you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear.

Just because you don't like what's posted you have no right to make personal attacks. Please read terms and conditions of posting to the forums

Be nice

loveprada

Thanks for the replies and offers to help work through this!
TLH - you have a point.
Southcoast - what I meant was I'd rather spend £400 on a free-standing fridge as I'm under the impression integrated fridges tend to be problematic. Therefore if one were to buy an integrated fridge at all it might be wiser to opt for a known brand rather than generic. I thought integrated fridges were far more expensive than the equivalent free-standing. £1000 seems like a lot for something I didnt want i.e a generic integrated fridge plus its housing. Would it not be wiser to spend £500 on say a Bosch free standing fridge?
Keystone, getting back to the kitchen it is approx 3.5m sq and the way it is laid out at the moment it is galley style. So there are 2 straight runs of units, no corner units or mitred joins to deal with. There are 16 units to fit and the appliances are an electric hob, a sink, an extractor and an oven. Just basic - nothing fancy. A new fridge needs to be plumbed in as it dispenses ice but the position is the same as my current fridge. Also there is tiling of the floor and walls - approx 10sq m floor and 3sq m walls. He has included painting the walls and ceilings. The plan prepared by Ikea totals around £2k for the units alone. The fee estimate is just for installation and decorating as mentioned plus disposal of old units. Yes there is stripping out involved. He must have included pelmets and cornices - he seems to have chucked everything into his estimate! It's a gloss kitchen that I'm having so no pelmets needed.

loveprada

suki1964 wrote: »

im in the midst of refitting my kitchen with Ikea cupboards and doors

Tile, worktops, appliances - all bought elsewhere

Cost of cupboards and doors - just a tad over the 3k

cost of electrician - a days work

Plumber - free as hes taken our old doors and windows we also were replacing

Design - Free - Ikea provide that service

Picking and delivery - £115 ( coming tomorrow - happy days)

Fitting - me and hubby - Ikea would be charging £2k

Ikea are very happy to design and sell you a kitchen without you needing to buy anything else from them. You can ask them to fit it - or you can find a joiner to come do it for you - and pay an electrician and plumber where needed as well

Fitting kitchens is not a rocket science - this is out third house and our third kitchen we have down ourselves with help from an electrician and plumber only

Suki - I admire you and I'd be happy for Ikea to charge me £2k - I will get a quote from them.

southcoastrgi

suki1964 wrote: »

Just because you don't like what's posted you have no right to make personal attacks. Please read terms and conditions of posting to the forums

Be nice

as most regs on here will testify i was being nice & it wasn't a personal attack it was an observation based on how the OP phrased the post.

loveprada wrote: »

Thanks for the replies and offers to help work through this!
TLH - you have a point.
Southcoast - what I meant was I'd rather spend £400 on a free-standing fridge as I'm under the impression integrated fridges tend to be problematic. Therefore if one were to buy an integrated fridge at all it might be wiser to opt for a known brand rather than generic. I thought integrated fridges were far more expensive than the equivalent free-standing.
Keystone, getting back to the kitchen it is approx 3.5m sq and the way it is laid out at the moment it is galley style. So there are 2 straight runs of units, no corner units or mitred joins to deal with. There are 16 units to fit and the appliances are an electric hob, a sink, an extractor and an oven. Just basic - nothing fancy. A new fridge needs to be plumbed in as it dispenses ice but the position is the same as my current fridge. Also there is tiling of the floor and walls - approx 10sq m floor and 3sq m walls. He has included painting the walls and ceilings. The plan prepared by Ikea totals around £2k for the units alone. The fee estimate is just for installation and decorating as mentioned plus disposal of old units. Yes there is stripping out involved. He must have included pelmets and cornices - he seems to have chucked everything into his estimate! It's a gloss kitchen that I'm having so no pelmets needed.

thank you for clearing that up my response was with regard to the way it was written, which may have not been the way you intended it to be read

if you can find a good fitter he can suggest things that will go along with your ideas to make things work better & things you may not have thought of, kitchen fitting if done correctly is a highly skilled job to allow you to get a great number of years use out of it, whereas a badly fitted one will look pants & fall apart in a short time.

i hope you find one that can work along side you & you finish with your dream kitchen. (right thats enough creeping there must be someone i can wind up on here today )

keystone

I'd say a reasonable price would be iro £2.4 - £ 2.5k but excluding disposal of old kitchen, any plastering works, electrics and flooring changes to make suitable for tiling. But thats site unseen so poss some flexibility. Not sure where you are but you'd also need to consider congestion charge (possibly) and daily parking costs.

Cheers

Jaynne

Tilling that size a floor and wall isn't exactly a quick job (well it is if there were no existing tiles and the floor was flat already).

I can speak from experience in saying that taking up tiles - particularly on a concrete base can be a real back breaker and then you have to screed to level it afterwards. Similarly the walls will have to be plastered flat afterwards. 2-3k for everything might be optimistic but it does depend a lot on what you're willing to do yourself and if you know anyone who will give you a good price.

£500 for an integrated fridge unit sounds like its far too much, our fancy corner units with magic corners were far less than that.

keystone

Jaynne wrote: »

if you know anyone who will give you a good price.

Mmm - I thought I just had albeit site unseen. Lets see what KDRs fitter comes up with shall we? Two quid in the charity box says its not far off mine.

Cheers