New kitchen and time required

CJS09

Hi

Apologies for yet another kitchen question but I have used the power of google and I am still not sure about to proceed. We are looking to get a new kitchen and I am aware that the budget for the kitchen may differ based on how top end etc I want to go with the worktops appliances etc. This is more relating to the labour costs as I have received two differing quotes.

The kitchen is relatively small and rectangular (i think circa 6m x 4m - give or take a metre). We are looking to do the following:

• Remove the old kitchen (including all tiling)
• Have the builders dispose of the old kitchen
• Replaster the walls and ceiling
• Electric works - add spot lights to the kitchen and change electrics to fit new kitchen
• Gas - Move the piping as we are relocating the hob to another wall
• Do work so that we can install hood/extractor (currently do not have one)
• Install new kitchen

We have received one quote for all the labour and materials (excluding the new kitchen) for £5,000 and he says this will take 4 weeks to complete. We have had another quote for about £1,500 for the work to get the kitchen ready to install and then they need to know the design of the new kitchen before they can then give us a final quote for everything as it the dependent on the design of layout. However they think it may be around £3-4k in total. They have also said that this should take 2.5 weeks to complete.

I live in London to give context to the prices. As I have got different prices and timescales, which seems more appropriate/reasonable?

The builder who quoted £5,000 has not really given me a breakdown as to how he got to that figure (even though I have pushed him for one) as he is saying he is looking at the job as a whole but this will cover all his work and if we decide not to tile the floor, he will pay for the lino. We have not discussed flooring with the other builders.

Am cautious as on the surface, the second quote seems a better deal both in cost and time but do not want to then get stung if this turns out not to be an exact one for one job comparison which they are quoting for and 4 weeks and £5k is the actual cost and time.

Many thanks for any insight which you can provide on this.

Browntoa

Those are reasonable prices

I paid 1500 for a skilled carpenter to remove and fit kitchen.

£70 to cap gas .

£500 for tiling.

And had to source each trade.

corum_uk67

Wow i'd love a kitchen that size! Ours is 3.5 x 2.4m, so definitely on the small side.

We had ours ripped out and replaced a couple of years ago.
The fitter charged us £2,376 which included:
Removal and disposal of old kitchen, floor tiles and some wall tiles.
Skim the walls
Connect the new gas hob
Fit the new kitchen (units came already assembled).
Plum in the new units, including re-positioning of the sink to a different wall.
Cut a hole in the wall for an extractor flue.
It was a local guy who did all the work himself and did a fantastic job.
He ripped everything out in a couple of days one week, then came back the following week to install the units, so about 2 weeks in total.

I had previously had the ceiling plastered at a cost of nearly £300, which I since learned was well overpriced, but needed to get the work done fairly quickly.

The house had just been rewired as well so the sparkies included in their cost about £500 for the kitchen (total rewire) and came back to connect everything up.

Fitted new flooring myself, click vinyl.

TELLIT01

Two and a half weeks is doable, assuming there are no unexpected problems. When we had our kitchen done, and is much smaller than the OP's, they discovered problems with the wiring and the central heating sprung a leak. They didn't cause the leak, that was down to poor workmanship by a national company who bodged a previous repair. I think the 4 week figure is the contractor building in some contingency, which is sensible.

CJS09

Ok, thanks everyone.

So reading from this it appears that the first quote is not hugely overcharging or overstating the work, there are just contingencies being built in. I guess I really need to push him on how he gets to his figure though.

ceredigion

CJS09 wrote: »

The builder who quoted £5,000 has not really given me a breakdown as to how he got to that figure (even though I have pushed him for one) as he is saying he is looking at the job as a whole but this will cover all his work

CJS09 wrote: »

Ok, thanks everyone.
I guess I really need to push him on how he gets to his figure though.

Don't push him to much. You wanted a quote and have received one, how the builder arrived at the figure is nothing to do with you. Your job is to understand what has been priced and what hasn't .