New Kitchen, how much?

Rain_Shadow

Recently done my kitchen / utility. 9m x 3m. Beeck cabinets, Siemens appliances, quartz worktops. £34k

always_sunny

Thank you all for the replies... some are encouraging and some are scary!
£22k for a kitchen?? Must be HUGE and possibly needed the walls rebuilt as well!

I don't think I am looking at more than 10 cabinets space (including cooker/fridge), the current kitchen is fine but the doors/draws are a bit worn out. Maybe I should just replace those with made to order?

Ideally I would like to keep it under £5k, it really is a small kitchen and I was planning to downsize and have few cabinet less.

always_sunny

Rain_Shadow wrote: »

Recently done my kitchen / utility. 9m x 3m. Beeck cabinets, Siemens appliances, quartz worktops. £34k

£34k?
9mx3m??? Is it an industrial kitchen? I must ask for a reference photo to grasp the concept!

leveller2911

The Hygena 8 would take a fitter 2.5 days including putting the flat pack units together. So 1 man 2.5 days then on top of that any plumbing work and electrical work. Ripping out the old kitchen would take half a day if it's roughly the same size as the Hygena 8 so £1500 is way over the top.

If the existing plumbing and electrics are roughly in the right place for the new kitchen layout I can't see it would cost more than £1000 complete job .

Davesnave

When I looked for cheap kitchen units for our utility , I soon ruled-out flat pack and just went for Howden's Greenwich Shaker, which weren't that much more expensive.

While I can build stuff, it takes time, and often time may be used more usefully elsewhere.

ratrace

From a mse point of view

Buy a modern used kitchen from flebay for around £500 already built
the novelty soon wears off fairly quickly and they go out of "fashion" faster than iphones

£34k on a kitchen why? to impress/please people when they come around for dinner, then leave and go back to thier own houses while your left with a huge debt. with that money you can pay off a large chunk of the mortgage

its madness how much debt we get in to just to impress and fit in

saverbuyer

ratrace wrote: »

From a mse point of view

Buy a modern used kitchen from flebay for around £500 already built
the novelty soon wears off fairly quickly and they go out of "fashion" faster than iphones

£34k on a kitchen why? to impress/please people when they come around for dinner, then leave and go back to thier own houses while your left with a huge debt. with that money you can pay off a large chunk of the mortgage

its madness how much debt we get in to just to impress and fit in

I get the sentiment, but still think it's guff to be honest. 34k... It's all relative. For some it could be several year's work. For others a few months.

moneyistooshorttomention

Davesnave wrote: »

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.

That was part of my reasoning - with fewer hours of sunlight, etc, than I'm used to over here.

I've been in seeing a kitchen planner and they don't seem to think there's much in it cost-wise to add them into my new kitchen - sorta "might as well" shrug attitude about it.

Getting my head round which worksurface and what material to have the sink in are proving to be the biggest headaches. The fact that the worksurface probably won't be laminate has increased the cost a lot - a couple of thousand £s extra to have one of the more "modern" surfaces (or possibly granite) instead of laminate.

All round - the rough guesstimate figure I've been quoted is around £11,000! Eek! Sighs!

always_sunny

saverbuyer wrote: »

I get the sentiment, but still think it's guff to be honest. 34k... It's all relative. For some it could be several year's work. For others a few months.

I agree it's relative, but I really could not get myself to spend that much on a kitchen.
I'd rather buy something else, but I understand it and also it depends on the size, a small kitchen in a flat will be way cheaper than a huge country house kitchen and fair enough!

ratrace

saverbuyer wrote: »

I get the sentiment, but still think it's guff to be honest. 34k... It's all relative. For some it could be several year's work. For others a few months.

Each to their own then I suppose, Its just annoying as I have acquaintances that spend like its water then always complain they are skint but anyhow leave them to it.