Cost to install dishwasher opposite sink

easilydistracted

We are buying our first house. The house will be lovely one day (hopefully soon) but needs a lot of work.

In summary, the problem is that due to the kitchen layout we would need to put the dishwasher on the opposite side of the of the kitchen, a little further down from the sink. The kitchen is quite narrow so this is a short distance.

I am wondering what rough cost it would be to connect a dishwasher in this position (as in getting a tradesman to do it). Also how long would it take? There is not currently a dishwasher in place and the whole kitchen needs replacing.

Thanks for any help. :money:

For people happy to devote time to a more detailed explanation:
The kitchen is a strange layout in that it is a long galley style, but one of the walls has been moved slightly part of the way along. This causes a short recess to fit in the washing machine and sink before the wall comes out further forward. Next to the sink and dishwasher there is not even room for a slimline dishwasher I think. The units, fridge freezer and cooker therefore are on the other side of the kitchen, starting a little further down.

Owain_Moneysaver

Depends where the drain is and whether it's low enough to get a pipe round from the dishwasher (either the long way round along the walls, or under the floor) to the drain with the right 'fall' (about 1 in 40) so the water drains away.

easilydistracted

Ah, thought it might be more complicated than I thought. No idea where the drain is. The kitchen sink backs onto the back garden near the door so probably around there, but no idea of height. We are getting new flooring so I guess under the floor. Any idea of a very ballpark figure or is this impossible without the right info?

mehera

It is a bit sketchy based on the info . . ..

As stated if the cold water supply and waste can be easily brought into position it will be cheaper.

I think you are looking at maybe £150 even in good conditions and considerably more if not (£300?).

it will need a dedicated pipe if away from the sink, and this will have to be run either internally or externally into your soil stack.

It is a bit like having a guess how long a piece of string is (that I can't see!)

macman

Follow the waste out of the sink to the outside and you will find the drain/gully..it's not rocket science.
If you want to position the d/w on the other side of the kitchen then you need both a cold supply and a waste running right around, plus power of course. Probably the worst location you could choose from the point of view of install costs. if you are gutting the kitchen anyway it's relatively simple, but not if you aren't.

easilydistracted

macman wrote: »

Follow the waste out of the sink to the outside and you will find the drain/gully..it's not rocket science.
If you want to position the d/w on the other side of the kitchen then you need both a cold supply and a waste running right around, plus power of course. Probably the worst location you could choose from the point of view of install costs. if you are gutting the kitchen anyway it's relatively simple, but not if you aren't.

Wouldn't be rocket science if we were living in the house already :rotfl:. We are replacing the whole kitchen when we complete on the house but keeping the current appliances. This is the only part of the fitting job we are not sure of re the cost. The ballpark figures are very helpful and we now have a builder going in next week to check everything out. I was just hoping to get an idea of what's reasonable.

Thanks for your help all.

Steve_the_fitter

If you are getting a new kitchen at the same time it really isnt going to push the price up that much to run a new waste pipe and new water feed over the other side of the kitchen. Prob £30 in materials and £50 labour

macman

But if you are ripping out the old kitchen entirely, can you not position the d/w on the side with the existing waste (i.e. on the same run as the sink)?
The existing gap between units will not be an issue if you are not retaining them.

easilydistracted

macman wrote: »

But if you are ripping out the old kitchen entirely, can you not position the d/w on the side with the existing waste (i.e. on the same run as the sink)?
The existing gap between units will not be an issue if you are not retaining them.

On the side where the sink is there is literally just space for that an the washing machine next to it, within a recessed gap in the wall (see the more convoluted explanation at the end of my 1st post). I don't think moving the washing machine would be easier, or would it? My partner has had the grand idea that we could put the washing machine in the downstairs bathroom, have put a stop to that one

easilydistracted

Thanks to all I now have some very ballpark figures. I am finding with lots of things in the house I literally have no idea what the typical going rate for things is at all, so saving the embarassment of asking for work we can't afford is pretty helpful

tarkytarks

I don't know if this will help, but in my first house we ended up turning the narrow galley kitchen into an L shape one. We lost some worktop space, but it meant that 2 people could actually use the kitchen at the same time. We moved the plumbing to the far wall and managed to get a slimline dishwasher in there alongside the washing machine. It's worth considering whether a different layout completely would ultimately be more practical. As others have said, if you are gutting it completely it probably won't cost too much more as long especialy if you go with an independent fitter over a store contracted one.