How much would you spend on an oven, hob and hood?

zebidee1

Just a mini survey really. OH and I have differing opinions over this, and it's holding up the ordering process. We wondered what kind of money most people would pay for an electric hob, a double built in electric oven and an extraction hood?

Our opinions are opposite ends of the scale, we'd like to know how much the average person would spend on these appliances?

Do you buy the best you can afford?

The cheapest you can get away with?

Do you stretch your budget because you feel it better to get quality makes?

Or think that they all do the same job?

Can you give a ballpark figure of what you consider to be a realistic and acceptable spend in £'s please?

I hasten to add, we're not fighting over this or come to blows....yet. But an idea of 'average spend' might help us a bit.

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adandem

I went for the best I could afford and I don't think all cookers are the same ( we had an horrific experience with Stoves/Beliing but that's another story).

I think the amount is relative to earnings, property value and disposable income.

I know you can get bundles for less than £500 but personally I would spend more.

DO_YOU_KNOW_DAVE

Personally I would go for quality, but second hand on Ebay.
I bought a second hand Siemens oven for £130 which was two years old and retailed at £600, best of all it had hardly been used.

zebidee1

What would be an amount you would consider to be too extreme? I know there are a lot of variables......and it's a question that everyone will have a different answer for, but there may be common ground.

adandem

Is it for an expensive kitchen?

majjie

What sort of hood do you want? That'll make a big difference to the price.
And what sort of hob, 4 rings and ceramic?

The average amount my customers pay is probably about £1,100 but that would include a good quality steel and glass, chimney type, extractor with a high flow rate.

With a bog standard extractor, which half heartedly sucks at your fumes, that price would be reduced by £300 - still with reasonable quality oven and ceramic hob.

Mind you ... I don't think many of my customers are MoneySavingExperts
You did ask for an average though.

zebidee1

adandem wrote: »

Is it for an expensive kitchen?

Mid range perhaps?......£6,600.

zebidee1

majjie wrote: »

What sort of hood do you want? That'll make a big difference to the price. Extracting, 90cm, good flow rate, quiet, curved.


And what sort of hob, 4 rings and ceramic? induction 4 / 5 rings

The average amount my customers pay is probably about £1,100 but that would include a good quality steel and glass, chimney type, extractor with a high flow rate. The oven I fancied was £1041 alone.


With a bog standard extractor, which half heartedly sucks at your fumes, that price would be reduced by £300 - still with reasonable quality oven and ceramic hob.

Mind you ... I don't think many of my customers are MoneySavingExperts
You did ask for an average though.

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adandem

I would say for that price you've got quite a good quality kitchen, I would probably spend upto around £1200 (bit more for something which I loved and I knew it would last and not outdate too quickly).

majjie

So your tastes are above average - nothing wrong with that! Who wants to be average anyway?

The more you pay for an oven the more it will do ... like allowing you to use the grill and the fan at the same time, or having pyrolytic cleaning, or a programmer so that you can have it cook your meal before you get home ... and the better it's likely to look too. There's no point in saving money if the oven isn't what you want.

The induction hob will put the price up too - but it's well worth the extra for the speed of response (even if you have to buy new pans!).

Some things are worth paying extra for

amaseal

I spent £1100 and got the best induction hob and hood that I could afford. By buying all from the same place I got an extra discount. I decided to go for a single oven and a stand alone microwave. The built-in microwaves with an oven and grill are expensive if you only microwave infrequently.
I love the induction hob and the extractor hood has been vented outside.
In our old house I spent less than £360 as we were moving and we knew the kitchen would need replacing.