Wickes kitchen quote. Any feedback appreciated!

Gowardo

Hi all,

I'm new to the MSE Forums (however I've been reading them for a while!) so hi everyone :beer:

Myself and my wife have been working to get our home extension done and have recently started works, finally. The next steps is to get a Kitchen sorted and we are closing down to a quote from Wickes.

The quote is this one here:


And this is what the kitchen looks like, in theory:


Take into account I have negotiated the quote down to £12k and it is a bit of a turnkey solution which includes everything:
- Kitchen Units
- Quartz top
- Appliances except fridge (including a £1.5k rangemaster and hood which cost nearly 2k alone, even ex-display)
- Installation
- Tap / Double Belfast sink

Basically absolutely everything except for fridge and handles as we already have a fridge and we want to get the handles separately.

I have gone onto DIY Kitchens and IKEA and the quotes from their online planners come to slightly under £8k just for the units, so this seems like a good deal, but even then, £12k seems like a lot to pay for a kitchen.

Like I said above, I have negotiated quite hard on this and got the sales rep at Wickes to say 'sorry, that's the best we can do' at 12k even after checking with his regional manager.

However, if someone on the MSE forums has some better info that can help us save some cash, I'd be really grateful!

Thanks in advance :j

RiversTam

I have had a long running saga with Wickes over my kitchen, would not recommend them at all.
A kitchen that started 29/1/18 is still not finished, I had items missing, items to return, charges for fitting I wasn't expecting and daily calls to complaints at one point. The job done does not justify the fitting fee and they hit you with extra costs on site.
Currently we are up to £600 compensation/refund due to their errors and kitchen isn't even finished. Would go elsewhere with your plan!

Slithery

You'll get better responses asking this on the 'In My Home' board, as it has nothing to do with buying and selling property

hazyjo

It's not totally unreasonable.


I got a fairly good deal at Homebase. The kitchen itself I think was around £5k (give or take). Might be worth a quote from them. I used my own builders to install. Was much cheaper.


Used to get kitchens from B&Q but know they also charge a lot for installation (actually not even sure they were offering it last time I looked).


My advice - get quotes from recommended builders/kitchen fitters. Mine had their own team for the electrics, flooring, tiles, etc - and some building work (external wall built and a window installed and an interior cupboard bricked up and a door added from the garden for garden storage, etc).


I think mine was also around the £11-12k figure but there were a lot of units and all appliances and pricey floor tiles/fitting through whole kitchen-diner, and the building works.

AnotherJoe

My feedback is that this is the wrong forum.

victoriavictorious

As an aside, how do you insert pictures directly into posts? I thought there was only an option to post a link?

DCFC79

victoriavictorious wrote: »

As an aside, how do you insert pictures directly into posts? I thought there was only an option to post a link?

Have you tried copying and pasting a photo ?

Not done it myself.

shortcrust

The OP did post this in ‘In my home’ but only had my reply gasping at the 380 quid charge for ‘specialist worktop handling’.

steve_jones

I recently bought a kitchen from Wickes, the kitchen itself was great, looked brilliant and I haggled them down to a price I was happy with. They did miss a couple of items off the delivery but the salesman got them ordered straight away. However what puts up their cost is the fitting, they wanted £2100 to fit then another £1600 for the electrician and plumber, so £3700.

I sourced my fitter myself for £700, electrician £500 and £300 for the plumber, so all in for £1500. I did have to do a bit of work keeping on top of the tradesmen to make sure they turned up and did what was required. I also had to rip out the old kitchen myself two weeks earlier so the electrician could do his first fix then take everything to the recycling centre.

If you are willing to put in some work yourself then get your own people to fit it and you'll save loads on that price, if you don't want any of that hassle then that's the price you pay with Wickes.

Amanda_Cm

Is expensive! Get your own kitchen fitter and will pay half of that.

Beardmidget

Wow that looks pricey for the size of it.

If you’re dead nuts on the style of it, maybe better to go through benchmarx as they’re just wickes kitchens trade outfit- you’ll get a discount but need a fitter.

For what it’s worth, I will link to my kitchen- it cost approx £2800 for units and doors/cover panels, £2000 for the work surfaces (quartz) and £4000 for appliances which are Miele except American ff which is Samsung. Add on about £500 for the shelf, sink, taps etc, and £500 for the tiling. Flooring was part of the rest of my renovation but I would have thought you should easily get tiling, fitting and flooring into your budget.