B&Q quote to install kitchen

MoneyQueen

Hi Cazziebo,

Have sent you a pm

vegtablepatch

lindsaygalaxy wrote: »

Where do you live? I have a friend who fits kitchens part time as it was his full time job but now works full time in electrics. For the work he charges about £800 a kitchen ( less or more depending on kitchen).

Thanks lindsaygalaxy. Our home is on South Coast between Brighton and Worthing. Hope you or another MSE regular can recommend a reliable fitter, electrician and tiler to quote for a replacement kitchen.
Vegie.

ystalyfera

i must say we've had one from B&Q paid £3,800 for it and the guy who fitted it done hell of a good job.He did some alterations to what the designer did and was even better,a scabby little lean-to kitchen i have,but the way the kitchen is now to what is much better,i had 2 double sockets and one single(which must have been a mistake) cos i'd have no sockets left for kettles,toaster,etc after the appliances :mad: but he put the sockets under the counters out of the way and gave me an extra double socket(can never have enough:D) switches for my Oven,which was the wrong one sent (should have been 4 gas rings,but we had 3 and one double burner like India restaurants have:D and he even put ducted our extractor fan right out(no smells or condensation at all now) all in all he did a good job for us little things ,like the sockets,cant see the joins on the counter and he had a hard time doing that i can tell you and the touch's like plinths on top and under the cupboards stuff i'd never though of.So we were happy,oh bar for 1 thing big,big,big no,no was those bloody lights which go regular and cost a bomb,the top one goes all the time so i put a strip light up there more light and is brill.

:embarasse for the long post.

Dick_here

hollydays wrote: »

This is MSE-and lots of posters tell how they are being quoted double the normal rate by these companies-thats not "a bit more",thats a rip-off.

See post 25, it can give you the best of both worlds.

No need to be so aggressive is there ? All opinions are valid remember.

armoy

Hi I`ve just found this forum and have read the stuff about B&Q and cost of fitting. We are about to order a B&Q kitchen and would like to know if anyone out there can recommend a good fitter - we are in East London.
Also is MFI better than B&Q for price/quality.
Thanks

ystalyfera

armoy wrote: »

Hi I`ve just found this forum and have read the stuff about B&Q and cost of fitting. We are about to order a B&Q kitchen and would like to know if anyone out there can recommend a good fitter - we are in East London.
Also is MFI better than B&Q for price/quality.
Thanks

biggest mistake(and the only one) we made was to get those pretty little strip lights under the cupboards:mad: they look great but dont last long and the longer ones not long at all,we had one under the 2 biggest cupboards and 1 on top(cos our celling slopes) and it looks nice,but some old gent in B&Q told me to forget about replacing it buy a fluresnt one, put that on top of the cupboards about 1/2 the price too and more light and cos we have a plinth on top you cant see it

monkeyuk_2

Interesting read this post. I'm looking to get a new kitchen fitted soon and am getting quotes of £4,000 plus which is more than the kitchen itself! Anyone recommend a decent (and cheaper) kitchen fitter in the Gloucestershire area?

Let-down_3

Karrie wrote: »

Hi Guys

Had B&Q out today to design a new kitchen for me. It's a tiny kitchen and I was pleased with the design BUT the followings prices had me flabbergasted:

Remove old kitchen £298
Install oven £154
Install hob £150
Install extractor £73
Install kitchen £756
Install floor tiles £220 (4m2)
Install wall tiles £200
Remove old wall tiles £220
Plumb dishwasher £120
Plumb washing machine £150
Install mains earth bonding £215
Install RCD or RCBO protection to existing ring main £250

Total cost to install (and they are just the ones that jump out at me )£3661
Total cost of kitchen £1646.34 without oven or hob.

Is it me or are their prices above excessive?

Hope you were wiser than us...we signed on the dotted line...and live to repent. B & Q contracted our fitting of kitchen to Tuckers in Bristol. Kitchen arrived 08:00 Monday morning, partner had to help un-load it all...hurting his back in the process!!...no fitters, no phonecall to advise us, kitchen filling up our lounge for four days...and nothing but heartbreak, frustration, anger thereafter. All I can advise to anyone reading this is...read all the small-print, examine every price quoted i.e. we had one item costing £216 for floorboard replacement...we have a concrete floor!!! We are still fighting to get back £560;00 they still owe us for goods that had been paid for and couldn't even be used!!! Shop around folks, you can do it a lot cheaper and with much less stress!!!