New fitted Kitchen, Howdens, Wren or B&Q/Cooke/L

cyclonebri1

A question for kitchen fitters, which do you prefer. PS I'm fitting one of those at present.

phill99

TBH in terms of quality there is very little between them. However in terms of availability of stock. Howdens win hands down. Its not uncommon to open a package and find a damaged drawer front and with Howdens I can get it changed over the counter. B & Q takes ages and with Wrens don't ever expect to get a replacement.

cyclonebri1

Thanks, the one I'm doing is Wren, done both the others before, many B&Q, top and lesser spec, Howdens, don't ask and in days gone by MFI. Also did a magnet one way back.

I'm finding Wren totally up to speed regarding damaged or wrongly supplied bits, almost as if the plan/expect it,

But, my concern is the design. We have 3 corners that are now constructed, but Lord of Bugg!!ey, the number of bits that have to be screwed in place to effect a 90 deg change is horrendous, MFI did it with one solid wood angled corner post.

cranford

I have also done MFI, Marley DIY and 7 years ago DIY Kitchens online. So if it's corner units you want take a look:
http://www.diy-kitchens.com/kitchen-units/corner-base/internal-curved

cyclonebri1

I have the units fitted, but given it was measured up by Wren and supplied assembled, the amount of work left to do seems excessive.

Another example, their sink base is supplied with a metal bar across the front to tie the sides together, This is both too high to allow a composite undermount sink to fit and to far in for the range we have to allow enough space in the granite for a tap hole to be cut to the rear due to the fact that this range has an alloy extrusion that acts as a door handle recess so the rail can't be moved more than 5 mm forwards. I can sort it but it's phaff.