New kitchen - installation cost?

never_enough

sheng719 wrote: »

Hi everybody! My washing machine and built in oven have decided to go pooof today...I just thought i might as well refurbish the kitchen my kitchen. I would like to have some free standing units from ikea and I just had a quick thought...would it be possible to fit the kitchen myself ? Does the person who will install the washing machine and the the oven and of course the cooker needs to corgi registered?

It may be a coincidence, but are they on the same electric circuit? I think ovens are usually on their own one, but it's kind of odd they both went on the same day.

ixwood

Installing a washing machine? You just plug it in and stick the pipe down the drain.

My dad and i did my kitchen. He's quite handy, but it's not as difficult as you'd think.

If you are paying someone, do the easy donkey work yourself to save something. Any removal/ripping out and make the units.

andrew-b

ritesh wrote: »

Our fitters came from the same company we bought our kitchen from so there was peace of mind.

So did our's and peace of mind was what we thought we would be paying for. Also we thought that the guarantee we would get on the installation would make it worthwhile. How very very wrong we were. I would NEVER ever make that same mistake again! We had countless problems (mainly centred around the sink and leaking plumbing) and the whole experience was an extremely stressful one that i never care to repeat. It may just be the luck of the drawer on which fitters you get but i certainly wouldn't take the gamble!

dld2s wrote: »

if you can do it, it's the cheapest and possibly the best way, if you can't, don't get whoever you are buying the kitchen from as they charge these guys around a 1/3 in commision and so they work out pretty expensive compared to a firm not in bed so to speak with the kitchen suppler

Yes. I saw a figure of 40% commission on the fitters paperwork!


Andy

crank_girl

We're having our kitchen done next year. We're getting builders in to brick up a door and window, put in a door elsewhere, knock down a supporting wall and level the floor with the adjoining room. We're expecting that to cost a pretty penny so have decided to get a cheapish kitchen from Ikea and install it ourselves (bar the gas cooker).

Have you thought about installing the kitchen yourself? If your walls are sound and fairly level and your plan is good I can't see why it would be any more complicated than putting several small wardrobes together!