Second hand kitchen?

bouncydog1

We couldn't give our old solid oak kitchen away - there was absolutely nothing wrong with it and there were a lot of floor and wall units. The recycling yard would not take the doors - they only take internal doors rather than cupboard doors - so the whole thing ended up being chopped up for fire wood - sacriledge! Advertise for a kitchen and I'm sure you could end up with a good quality stop gap for nothing.

missprice

Yes there is a market, I got hold of a ex display kitchen and despite my best efforts I could not make 5 or so units fit so I sold them on eBay for about a fiver each. I think original kitchen had maybe 40 units so I did well to fit so many.

Also sold granite worktop (had no more money to make them fit) and beautiful hob that I really wanted to keep but for more practical reasons had to sell. Got most of the money back from buying the kitchen. And just had to buy new worktop (not granite sadly)

onomatopoeia99

My kitchen came from ebay. Three years old from a second home and unmarked. Cost me £1500 (units and appliances), original invoice was £11k. Did all the work myself (slate floor, ufh, tiling plumbing, painting, installation etc except wiring). Whole thing cost £10k in the end, would have cost over £25k new and paying for installation.

I'm not a builder, I write code, so if I can gut and refit a kitchen anyone can. Though not everyone has an old VW van to collect a kitchen in!

VfM4meplse

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

My kitchen came from ebay. Three years old from a second home and unmarked. Cost me £1500 (units and appliances), original invoice was £11k. Did all the work myself (slate floor, ufh, tiling plumbing, painting, installation etc except wiring). Whole thing cost £10k in the end, would have cost over £25k new and paying for installation.

I'm not a builder, I write code, so if I can gut and refit a kitchen anyone can. Though not everyone has an old VW van to collect a kitchen in!

That's really heartening! I'm not confident in my own DIY skills, but would be happy to assist and learn at the same time!

camelot1001

Shame you're not near me VfM4meplse, my kitchen is being ripped out next week. It is clean and a few years old but perfectly serviceable, I might see if I can advertise it, even if I give it away it will save it going to landfill.

lush_walrus

Would an option be to get a professional cleaning company in to clean the kitchen and then see how you feel? there is nothing that can not be sanitised. It will work out cheaper and simpler than trying to match a second hand kitchen to the space you have, get it delivered fitted so level and so on.

How many years until your new kitchen plans kick in? An alternative would be to buy second hand non fitted kitchen pieces - require no fitting at all, are easy to resell and can be moved around to suit. A cheap free standing cooked and refit the sink and done. A quirky European kitchen.

onomatopoeia99

VfM4meplse wrote: »

That's really heartening! I'm not confident in my own DIY skills, but would be happy to assist and learn at the same time!

Main things you need are to be patient, methodical and persistent. The last because stuff will go wrong and you need to just undo the mistake and start again without getting in a flap.

That said, having a partner / friend / family member with experience, the time to help and the right tools would be a (very) big help. I basically taught myself DIY stuff an have bought tools as I need them over the last 20 years, but that's not an approach that works for everyone.

Sagz_2

It might be worth asking on your local Facebook selling pages, you might get lucky and find a kitchen being taken out just up the road.

My brother fitted a 2nd hand kitchen for me, but he is a builder, you'd have thought it was made to measure! More cupboards than I could ever fill and helped select the house a couple of years later.