Kitchen fitting quote

thegentleway

Hi,


I have bought the following kitchen:


http://my-kitchen.howdens.com/plan/ueD8314680001Bbq


and been quoted £570 to fit it (excluding plumbing). Is that a fair price?


Cheers,


Tom

somethingcorporate

£570 to fit a kitchen?

Seems a bit too cheap if you ask me!

LEJC

It does seem quite a cheap price,but in essence if the fitter is making the money on the cabinets then there is the potential to undercharge on the fitting...

What the OP doesn't give is the total cost of the kitchen bearing in mind that a howdens kitchen can be very heavily discounted to some puchasers in the trade...

only being told one element of the price rather than the whole makes it difficult to estimate whether something is value for money or not...what if the plumbing is quoted at a higher figure than standard plumbing,then it evens ot the quote a little.

cddc

It does seem cheap, but if no electrics or gas work is involved, it is unlikely to be more than two days work, and being Howdens, it is almost certain that the fitter is making some kind of a cut to allow the fitting to be that price.

Dannytyler

fitters making his money on cost of the kitchen

if you can give us the total cost of the kitchen then we'll have more of an idea

NICHOLAS_2

We fit howdens kitchens, they aren't that cheap, there are cheaper places to buy kitchens.

The discounting is all a bit of blarney really, they say you are getting 70% or 90% off items but the items vastly overpriced pre discount.

That's a good price, very cheap. You can pay a lot more than that.

thegentleway

Thanks for reply guys. Sorry for not giving full picture. I bought the kitchen directly from Howdens for £1480. Joiner is not doing plumbing and there is no electrics apart from extractor hood (I am buying stand alone cooker, fridge, and washing machine separate). I can't remember if he is wiring extractor for that price but I don't mind either way as it will take me 5 mins to connect to fused isolator. Kitchen should be easy to fit, solid cabinets, only one cut on worktops, no cornices or any fancy business. I thought it was expensive but from what you guys are saying it sounds like a good deal.

NICHOLAS_2

Out of interest, can you post some of the prices you were charged by howdens for your doors and carcasses, we're fitting the same kitchen and i want to see if howdes have given us a good deal, or ripped us off :money:

I will report back with the prices they charged us if you do, so we can compare

Annie1960

thegentleway wrote: »

Thanks for reply guys. Sorry for not giving full picture. I bought the kitchen directly from Howdens for £1480. Joiner is not doing plumbing and there is no electrics apart from extractor hood (I am buying stand alone cooker, fridge, and washing machine separate). I can't remember if he is wiring extractor for that price but I don't mind either way as it will take me 5 mins to connect to fused isolator. Kitchen should be easy to fit, solid cabinets, only one cut on worktops, no cornices or any fancy business. I thought it was expensive but from what you guys are saying it sounds like a good deal.

Very interesting. Around here, Howden's will not tell the customer anything whatsoever about the price of the units. All info. goes to the fitter, who then gives a price to the customer.

I've been getting kitchen quotes recently, and both your price for the units and the fitting seem very cheap to me.

thegentleway

There you go Nicholas:


1 CGW9141 Contract Gls White 600 3 Dwr Base Cream Cab 65.00 79.10
2 CGW9250 Contract Gls White 800 Hi-Line Base Cream Cab 65.00 165.20
4 CGW9270 Contract Gls White 1000 Hi-Line Base Cream Cab 65.00 330.40
1 CGW9440 Contract Gls White 800 Full Height Wall Cream Cab 65.00 54.60
2 CGW9450 Contract Gls White 1000 Full Height Wall Cream Cab 65.00 121.10
3 CGW9920 Contract Gls White Continuous Plinth 2.75m 89.64 24.24
6 CGW9933 Contract Gls White 910 Base Decor End 89.58 66.24 F
4 CGW9944 Contract Gls White 752 Full Height Wall Decor End 89.70 38.72 F
1 HJA2480 Lamona 60cm S/S Std Chimney Extractor 75.00 67.00
1 HJA2908 Carbon filters for HJA2480 & LAM2401 75.00 14.00
6 HYH2506 Chrome Effect End Cap 38mm 97.00 3.36
1 HYH8179 Silver 600 Cutlery Tray 75.00 8.25
1 PLU1000 Sgl Bowl Plumbing Kit/App Conn 76.20 9.99
1 SNT5171 Lamona Sgl Tap Sink Inc Wst & Mono Tap 70.00 48.30
1 WKP3660 Lami Oak Block 3mm B/n 3m 616 38 W/top 60.00 80.40 F
1 WKP3666 Lami Oak Block 3mm B/n 3.6m 616 38 W/top 60.00 92.40 F
1 ZZD39 Delivery 0.00 30.00


Let me know what you've managed to negotiate; hope it helps you get a good deal!

john.h

I would say the fitter is getting well paid, probably could fit it in a day (If the original one is stripped out)