Rough costs of a fitted wardrobe

Hannimal

benson1980 said:

Hannimal said:

benson1980 said:

Hannimal said:

Thanks so much everyone. Would it be stupid to ask a carpenter to come make an ikea unit look fitted in? It sounds like this could be the cheapest option but I would not be able to do this myself because I am busy and have no life skills

You can do I’m sure but as said if you want wardrobes similar to pax and fitted for you I would advise having a look at fittingly. On reflection the fitting charges were very reasonable as it took me at least two full days to do it all. We have an L shape of built in units in a room around 13 x 11ft and diy was 1400. Fully fitted charge was an extra £450 I believe.

I suspect the pax plus trying to find a tradesperson to create a bespoke look, would work out as more expensive. Plus you then have the hassle of design and trying to find someone to do it.

Based on the IKEA website I think I could get a PAX for £900 and they estimate fitting cost through task rabbit to be £260. Can fittingly really do cheaper than that? The PAX unit has all the fancy shelving inside as well. 

I don’t know but it’s probably worth getting a quote.

 All I can tell you is that for our configuration, fittingly wasn’t a whole lot more expensive than Pax and the units were slightly better.  This included filler/end panels etc. The back of the units are 18mm and you don’t have all the holes everywhere to cater for all of the different internal configurations.

I also suspect it might be a bit of a hassle finding a carpenter to do a job like this, plus who provides the filler panels etc. This needs to be included in your workings out. 

Thank you. Just looking at their website's designer tool, even before putting the internal stuff in, it comes to almost £3k. So I think fittingly is way over my budget, sadly. 

greensalad

Hannimal said:

benson1980 said:

Hannimal said:

Thanks so much everyone. Would it be stupid to ask a carpenter to come make an ikea unit look fitted in? It sounds like this could be the cheapest option but I would not be able to do this myself because I am busy and have no life skills

You can do I’m sure but as said if you want wardrobes similar to pax and fitted for you I would advise having a look at fittingly. On reflection the fitting charges were very reasonable as it took me at least two full days to do it all. We have an L shape of built in units in a room around 13 x 11ft and diy was 1400. Fully fitted charge was an extra £450 I believe.

I suspect the pax plus trying to find a tradesperson to create a bespoke look, would work out as more expensive. Plus you then have the hassle of design and trying to find someone to do it.

Based on the IKEA website I think I could get a PAX for £900 and they estimate fitting cost through task rabbit to be £260. Can fittingly really do cheaper than that? The PAX unit has all the fancy shelving inside as well. 

You're not paying for the fitting cost with Task Rabbit. You're paying for them to construct the flat pack. Not framing around it for that price.

Why not do it yourself? Really wasn't that hard. Took me a week or two just evenings and I have minimal tools and DIY knowledge.

benson1980

Hannimal said:

benson1980 said:

Hannimal said:

benson1980 said:

Hannimal said:

Thanks so much everyone. Would it be stupid to ask a carpenter to come make an ikea unit look fitted in? It sounds like this could be the cheapest option but I would not be able to do this myself because I am busy and have no life skills

You can do I’m sure but as said if you want wardrobes similar to pax and fitted for you I would advise having a look at fittingly. On reflection the fitting charges were very reasonable as it took me at least two full days to do it all. We have an L shape of built in units in a room around 13 x 11ft and diy was 1400. Fully fitted charge was an extra £450 I believe.

I suspect the pax plus trying to find a tradesperson to create a bespoke look, would work out as more expensive. Plus you then have the hassle of design and trying to find someone to do it.

Based on the IKEA website I think I could get a PAX for £900 and they estimate fitting cost through task rabbit to be £260. Can fittingly really do cheaper than that? The PAX unit has all the fancy shelving inside as well. 

I don’t know but it’s probably worth getting a quote.

 All I can tell you is that for our configuration, fittingly wasn’t a whole lot more expensive than Pax and the units were slightly better.  This included filler/end panels etc. The back of the units are 18mm and you don’t have all the holes everywhere to cater for all of the different internal configurations.

I also suspect it might be a bit of a hassle finding a carpenter to do a job like this, plus who provides the filler panels etc. This needs to be included in your workings out. 

Thank you. Just looking at their website's designer tool, even before putting the internal stuff in, it comes to almost £3k. So I think fittingly is way over my budget, sadly. 

Ah ok must have put their prices up a fair bit. The white melamine option was by far the cheapest. As soon as we looked at painted options the prices doubled.

Mutton_Geoff

I've fitted Ikea PAX into alcoves etc. They are easy to cut and adjust, just buy spares for the panels & fillers you need. PAX have a great range of drawers, rails etc so I made a very tidy walk in wardrobe area out of them despite alcoves, sloping walls etc in a 100 year old house. Allow £200-300 a day for a chippy if you can't DIY, probably 2-4 days work depending on extent of fiddling around needed. Make sure all cut edges at floor level and you won't ever see them. 

Hannimal

greensalad said:

Hannimal said:

benson1980 said:

Hannimal said:

Thanks so much everyone. Would it be stupid to ask a carpenter to come make an ikea unit look fitted in? It sounds like this could be the cheapest option but I would not be able to do this myself because I am busy and have no life skills

You can do I’m sure but as said if you want wardrobes similar to pax and fitted for you I would advise having a look at fittingly. On reflection the fitting charges were very reasonable as it took me at least two full days to do it all. We have an L shape of built in units in a room around 13 x 11ft and diy was 1400. Fully fitted charge was an extra £450 I believe.

I suspect the pax plus trying to find a tradesperson to create a bespoke look, would work out as more expensive. Plus you then have the hassle of design and trying to find someone to do it.

Based on the IKEA website I think I could get a PAX for £900 and they estimate fitting cost through task rabbit to be £260. Can fittingly really do cheaper than that? The PAX unit has all the fancy shelving inside as well. 

You're not paying for the fitting cost with Task Rabbit. You're paying for them to construct the flat pack. Not framing around it for that price.

Why not do it yourself? Really wasn't that hard. Took me a week or two just evenings and I have minimal tools and DIY knowledge.

Sure, but it's kind of indicative of the cost. I might not be able to afford the framing.

I'm not doing it myself because
- my time is worth more than £300 for a week and two evenings
- I have no DIY skills and would probably end up making a mess of it
- IKEA says this is a two-person job

TerminalChimp

I went through this about a year ago. I ended up buying this one from Made.com and I can't agree with the original comment, the quality of the important bits like the rollers is particularly good indeed. The outside finish is lovely, and the inside fittings and finish are good. Ikea didn't work out any cheaper, and the faff with construction put me off. With Made the wardrobe was delivered and fitted in our bedroom for us and we're happy with it. Fitted sounds nice, but in reality I don't think it is necessary unless you have an unusual space and it's mightily expensive. 

EDIT: The wardrobe I posted has gone up in price significantly, we paid about £1k all in. 

ashe

We have 4 double pax wardrobes with load of rails, drawers, slide our compartments etc

we had them installed in an evening, def a 2 person job. But once you've done one it's easy. We've since taken them down and put them back up to decorate around them. 

Ours aren't fitted as they fit neatly into the space so we decided against the extra expense but I'd def just do the main installation myself and get carpenter in to do the "fitted" work 

Advantage of ikea is readily available spares for nearly every part 

greensalad

Hannimal said:

greensalad said:

Hannimal said:

benson1980 said:

Hannimal said:

Thanks so much everyone. Would it be stupid to ask a carpenter to come make an ikea unit look fitted in? It sounds like this could be the cheapest option but I would not be able to do this myself because I am busy and have no life skills

You can do I’m sure but as said if you want wardrobes similar to pax and fitted for you I would advise having a look at fittingly. On reflection the fitting charges were very reasonable as it took me at least two full days to do it all. We have an L shape of built in units in a room around 13 x 11ft and diy was 1400. Fully fitted charge was an extra £450 I believe.

I suspect the pax plus trying to find a tradesperson to create a bespoke look, would work out as more expensive. Plus you then have the hassle of design and trying to find someone to do it.

Based on the IKEA website I think I could get a PAX for £900 and they estimate fitting cost through task rabbit to be £260. Can fittingly really do cheaper than that? The PAX unit has all the fancy shelving inside as well. 

You're not paying for the fitting cost with Task Rabbit. You're paying for them to construct the flat pack. Not framing around it for that price.

Why not do it yourself? Really wasn't that hard. Took me a week or two just evenings and I have minimal tools and DIY knowledge.

Sure, but it's kind of indicative of the cost. I might not be able to afford the framing.

I'm not doing it myself because
- my time is worth more than £300 for a week and two evenings
- I have no DIY skills and would probably end up making a mess of it
- IKEA says this is a two-person job

I said a week or two of evenings. Like probably 8 evenings, and when I say "evening" I mean 30 minutes - 1hr of work because I had to wait for things to dry. I have limited DIY skills but it wasn't hard. It's only a 2-person job to construct a PAX wardrobe if you need to construct them upright. If you have enough clearance to construct them on the floor it's very easy. (The carcasses are only 4 panels and a plinth).

The PAX themselves for my installation cost about £900 (with some luxury bits like glass shelves) and the framing materials were £100 delivered. My framing was extra difficult too because we had to have offset depths. Fair enough if you don't want to do it but if you want the look of built-in and aren't willing to spend big bucks on it then DIY is the only option, at least that's what it came down to for me! Don't have the £5k to spend on fitted so gotta figure it out myself

Seems like for built-ins there's only three options.

1. Buy from Sharps/Hammonds etc and spend £5k+
2. Buy PAX and get them framed by a carpenter £2k+
3. DIY £1k

benson1980

greensalad said:

Hannimal said:

greensalad said:

Hannimal said:

benson1980 said:

Hannimal said:

Thanks so much everyone. Would it be stupid to ask a carpenter to come make an ikea unit look fitted in? It sounds like this could be the cheapest option but I would not be able to do this myself because I am busy and have no life skills

You can do I’m sure but as said if you want wardrobes similar to pax and fitted for you I would advise having a look at fittingly. On reflection the fitting charges were very reasonable as it took me at least two full days to do it all. We have an L shape of built in units in a room around 13 x 11ft and diy was 1400. Fully fitted charge was an extra £450 I believe.

I suspect the pax plus trying to find a tradesperson to create a bespoke look, would work out as more expensive. Plus you then have the hassle of design and trying to find someone to do it.

Based on the IKEA website I think I could get a PAX for £900 and they estimate fitting cost through task rabbit to be £260. Can fittingly really do cheaper than that? The PAX unit has all the fancy shelving inside as well. 

You're not paying for the fitting cost with Task Rabbit. You're paying for them to construct the flat pack. Not framing around it for that price.

Why not do it yourself? Really wasn't that hard. Took me a week or two just evenings and I have minimal tools and DIY knowledge.

Sure, but it's kind of indicative of the cost. I might not be able to afford the framing.

I'm not doing it myself because
- my time is worth more than £300 for a week and two evenings
- I have no DIY skills and would probably end up making a mess of it
- IKEA says this is a two-person job

I said a week or two of evenings. Like probably 8 evenings, and when I say "evening" I mean 30 minutes - 1hr of work because I had to wait for things to dry. I have limited DIY skills but it wasn't hard. It's only a 2-person job to construct a PAX wardrobe if you need to construct them upright. If you have enough clearance to construct them on the floor it's very easy. (The carcasses are only 4 panels and a plinth).

The PAX themselves for my installation cost about £900 (with some luxury bits like glass shelves) and the framing materials were £100 delivered. My framing was extra difficult too because we had to have offset depths. Fair enough if you don't want to do it but if you want the look of built-in and aren't willing to spend big bucks on it then DIY is the only option, at least that's what it came down to for me! Don't have the £5k to spend on fitted so gotta figure it out myself

Seems like for built-ins there's only three options.

1. Buy from Sharps/Hammonds etc and spend £5k+
2. Buy PAX and get them framed by a carpenter £2k+
3. DIY £1k

Agreed. Don’t want to spend the big bucks, wants fitted bespoke look but not willing to do any DIY. 

Doesn’t compute.

ka7e

I have 3.5m of Pax similar to ashe's and it took a day for my son and I to construct and fit..The second person is mainly needed to up-end the carcasses and steady them for bolting to each other.  Another few hours for me to fit out the internal rails, drawers and shelves. The instructions are pretty self-explanatory and an electric screwdriver is a must!

Annoyingly gap was 3.97m so 4 x 1m units wouldn't fit, but the 40cm Billy bookcase was the same height as the 201cm units.