Wickes kitchen quote over 22K with full discounts !

steveharvey2001

Hi -
I have had a Wickes kitchen designer give us a design and the costing came back as over £22,000 with all discounts.

This only included some built in appliances such as hob, sink, microwave, wine chillier and extractor hood.

This is with Corian worktops charged at £540/m before cutting !

These prices seem completely crazy !!!

The first item on the list - a decor panel - which I believe is a single sheet panel of veneered chipboard, is priced at £350 discounted to £175 !!

Oven tower at £395 with discounts
Larder at £750 with discounts

Are they having a Giraffe !!

I have a Wickes kitchen in place which was supplied in 2003 and cost £2,600 including cabinets and worktops (but no appliances).

Here is the quote

What do you think ???

Steve

dirty_magic

Take the quote to some other suppliers and use them against each other. I'd use Benchmarx as a starting point because apparently they supply Wickes. We had a quote of just under 6.5k from Howden's, Benchmarx knocked more than 2k off for their equivalent. DIY kitchens are cheap and have rave reviews if you're willing to order it all yourself on their website.

I'd also suggest sourcing worktops, appliances and taps elsewhere; we can get almost exactly the same for half the price that Howden's quoted. Corian is probably expensive because of the brand name, have a look at local suppliers' quartz ranges. It's annoying and time consuming but researching other options is a lot cheaper.

phill99

If you identify where you ate based, so ebody may be able to suggest a supplier local to you.

Dannytyler

as a kitchen fitter...... my oh my that is astronomical!!!!! installation, what does that include? please don't tell me thats for just fitting the kitchen! £197 to cut out the sink! takes 15 minutes and no different to cutting solid worktops!.... same with the hob cut out £120!.... if you do decide to go with this kitchen or any other please find your own fitters... rule of thumb you will save at least 50% of the cost of fitting.... shop around for your alliances, £450 for a microwave oven? £900 for an extractor.... also notice theres 2 mono taps on the list... to be honest everything looks expensive on that list, not one item on there i looked at and thought thats reasonable, even down to the handles are £2 each more than the average cost of that style of handle, (bit hard to see of the pictures but you get the idea)

i wouldn't even bother taking that quote to another supplier, screw it up toss it in the bin and start again with someone else

hope this helps, where are you in the county are you?

steveharvey2001

Thanks for the reply. I appreciate your opinion.

I have already challenged the pricing as I think it is it totally unreasonable, when I look at the individual items. If the list price are real. then I would expect discounts of 80% would be needed to be anyway near competitive.

I am disappointed that Wickes are using the "Rogue traders" pricing technique where a ridiculous list price is used to create an apparently generous "sale" discount, which is no such thing.

And I don't like the layout proposal anyway, looks horrible and will need a major re-think.

The reason that there are two sinks and taps is that there is a small utility room with a sink worktop and some floor and base units.


We are in Worcester

chubsta

i went to wicks and homebase and was pretty stunned by their installation prices - home base wanted to charge over £250 for fitting the hob, a job which i eventually did myself in minutes! Putting the cabinets together was going to cost me £1500 alone, the list was endless and very expensive.

I don't know if you can suggest companies here but i ended up getting my cabinets from DIYKitchens and they are fantastic, far better quality than the diy stores - i would at least take a look at them if i was you.

If i remember correctly the cost of installation of a kitchen from wicked worked out to be pretty much the cost of the kitchen itself, so by doing it yourself you can halve the cost.,..

Dannytyler

right my advice would to be contact a local fitter get him to come round, ask if he has a preferred supplier, most use howdens reasons are they are nationwide, 99% of their stock is on the shelf, and can deliver incredibly quick and the more the fitter works with howdens the larger the discount the fitter can get passing it on to the customer, the quality and range is very good and reasonable, ...... avoid ikea at all costs... what you save in the cost of the kitchen will be used in the cost to fit the thing,