New Kitchen, how much?

always_sunny

Roughly - how much does it cost to have a new kitchen installed?
For example, a Hygena 8 pieces from Homebase is £699.42 though with installation it becomes £2,377.42. £1500+ to fit it seems a bit expensive.

Anyone had their small kitchen redone and how much was it?

goodwithsaving

How long is a piece of string. Depends if any of the below are needed for installation.

Any:
- Building work / change of layout?
- Size of kitchen?
- Plastering?
- Electrician?
- Gas engineer?

My installation is more than my kitchen was but mine includes building work, plastering, electrics, flooring etc.

Don't scrimp on it as you get what you pay for. Same with unit quality

trailingspouse

We paid about £12,000 all in - old ceiling replaced, whole room plastered, strange archway into the hall replaced with a proper door, floor tiled, old units and white goods removed, kitchen designed, new units and built-in appliances put in, work tops, ceramic sink, walls tiled, plumbing, electrics, new light fittings, venetian blind, etc etc etc. We got it from Homebase, used our own plasterer and our own electrician, but Homebase's own kitchen fitters (who also did the tiling and the plumbing), and we did the painting ourselves.

It is a small kitchen (cooker, two floor cupboards and freezer on one wall, two cupboards, fridge and dishwasher on the other, and corresponding wall units above. And that's it - very narrow, with three (!!) doors and a window on the short walls.

We could have spent A LOT more. We could probably have done it for less (those Laura Ashley wall tiles weren't cheap...). I think it's important that you work out what you can afford (balanced against other things you might want to do with the money, the value it may add to your home, general convenience of having a new kitchen to your own design and so on). You do indeed get what you pay for - but you can also do a lot with a little if you buy wisely and put lots of thought in to it. Plan, plan, and then plan some more. Shop around, comparing like with like (so, Shop A might have cheap units and high fitting costs, Shop B might have more expensive units but the fitting is cheaper), and including all the 'extras'. Then make a decision.

And of course, the decision could be 'Let's wait until we can do it the way we want it'.

glasgowdan

The price of a kitchen in the shop isn't the price of a kitchen, it's the price of the units.

Add appliances, removal and waste disposal, electrician, tiling, tiles, plumber, plastering, painting, floor, shelves and other touches.

Our new kitchen cost £4500 for units and worktops, handles, sink tap etc. Total spend was £11000 including full room plaster and paint. Drill and plumb the washing machine and dryer connections into the utility room, bulkhead fitted around ceiling above units, all very well done.

redmalc

We spent £22000 for all of the units and renewed all the appliances with Siemens products including a coffee machine.
We removed an internal wall and had the ceiling reboarded and plastered,and Kaendean on the floor and Granite tops

phoebe1989seb

It's definitely a piece of string question. By the time we extended it, our last kitchen was large (36' x 16' max - although that did include the breakfast area ), but as we shopped around the overall cost was *relatively* low......

Units (from a small independent manufacturer) only cost around £6k. They were solid wood and came ready to paint which we did ourselves. Iroko worktops from a local supplier were around £2k.

Brand new butler sink and Perrin & Rowe taps were picked up cheaply on ebay (£200 total) and DH built the large island - although granite for this was £700 We already had all appliances except an integrated dishwasher (shopped around and got a good deal from AO) and the electrics/plumbing were done as part of the whole house renovation.

Other than the units, our main expenditure was on tiles. Limestone floor tiles were in excess of £4k and the small oven back splash area cost £2k for Fired Earth tiles.

We also bought two gothic style cast iron radiators from Holloways of Ludlow that were around £800 each.

We saved money by doing all the fitting, plastering, tiling and decorating ourselves

cherydee

Our kitchen was £6100 in Howdens once a year sale. All the integrated appliances, sink, tall radiator, taps, lights came to around £3600. New boiler £1750. Fitter on to his 4th week, finally got to bottom of a load of damp problems, three outside walls and a damp chimney breast with hidden voids. Room/ceiling newly plastered. Pleased we hadn't got kitchen fitted in summer as planned, otherwise wet weather problems would of remained hidden behind units. I reckon ours is going to coming in at £17,000 once labour, tiles and flooring gets added. More money than I imagined, but things easily escalate.

onomatopoeia99

always_sunny wrote: »

Roughly - how much does it cost to have a new kitchen installed?

Nothing, if you do it yourself.

You might have to pay for gas and electrics, depending on whether these need doing, but installation, as in removing the old and putting the new units in only costs your time.

I did mine and I'm no Bob the builder, I write computer programs for a living.

moneyistooshorttomention

I'm in process of choosing my new kitchen now - and reckoning it will probably cost up to £10,000 in total.

Pretty small kitchen imo. Not much electrical work - should only be a case of swopping two kitchen sockets (including the cooker point) and wiring in the integral cooker I'm going to have (Neff). I'd already done a bit of a revamp - so plastering and most of the electrical work are already done. The three major costs will be units, fitting, the worksurface (I'm going to have Corian or similar type material - instead of laminate). Laminate is much the cheapest worksurface I gather and I estimate I could save £1k-£2k if I had that - but nope I don't like it. I'm keeping existing freestanding fridge, freezer and washing machine.

I won't be having a range cooker (down to size/shape of kitchen) and no "twiddly bits" of fancy extras (eg plinth lights/built-in coffee machine/etc).

Friend of mine has just finished her new kitchen (standard size and she doesn't have dear tastes). She reckons it cost her £14,000.

Bear in mind - odds and sods. I don't know how long one can reasonably expect it to take to do a new kitchen?? I'm guessing at around 2 weeks (including decorating and new vinyl on the floor) in my case? So - I'll have cooking problems come the time. Cue - I've added in £17 for a portable dual electric hotplate. I figure I can manage with 2 hotplates, kettle and toaster for 2 weeks. That will work out cheaper than doing a lot of eating out.

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I won't be having a range cooker (down to size/shape of kitchen) and no "twiddly bits" of fancy extras (eg plinth lights/built-in coffee machine/etc).

Separately switched under top unit/over work surface LEDs are worth the small amount they cost to install and run, especially on dark, cheerless days, like today.

Dan-Dan

I am currently mulling over our new kitchen , we are at the budget of a burford from howdens or tiverton from wickes , but aye , with floorinf , tiling , sparky works on a small kitchen with not many units its still looking to hit 10k