AIBU to think I should be able to buy and have a kitchen installed for £3k?

[cuntflapwankbadger]

Serious question. We're just dipping our toes into the murky waters of Buying A New Kitchen, and I can afford to pay more than this, which I think is a reasonable amount to pay. We popped into a place last night, and for a dry fit (no plumbing/electrics etc) they wanted £2k. And the units come ready assembled, so it's not like they'd have to build them. From what I understood it'd be moving them inside and screwing a couple of units to the wall, and fixing in the worktops. £2k FFS? I am not looking for anything designer fancy 9like granite tops etc etc), and the only appliances I want are a dishwasher and a new cooker extractor.

Is it possible to do this? Has anyone any tips for it? Or am I just BU?

Buy a kitchen and find a builder/general handyman to do the fitting for you. My brother is an electrician/handyman and fitted all but my gas cooker for £100 a day. Took a week, bought the kitchen from Ikea. Cost £2k in total. Looked ace. I did do the painting myself though.

costing will depend on many factors:
what the units are made of,
how many you want,
whether your kitchen is a bastard size or a normal size,
drawers.
Extractors are ridiculously priced sometimes.
How much work needs to be done before they can be fitted.
Charges for removal of old kitchen and disposal

You can however find a local joiner and buy your kitchen straight from the wholesaler, that will massively bring the prices down.

Whereabouts are you?

Well we paid £2k for ours from wickes - we designed it ourselves and our bulder who was doing the extension at the time fitted it for us... (It was all flat pack). Its doing well 2 years later and longer I hope!!!

I don't know what the work costs for the builder would have been separately though ... We paid £12k for our extension altogether (lots of work involved incuding resiting drains etc). We are in norfolk.

Sorry not sure I get the question. The title says "AIBU to think I should be able to buy and have a kitchen installed for £3k?" but in the OP you say you have been quoted £2k and you think that's too much?

I was quoted £2k just for the dry fit, not the kitchen! with the kitchen it was 6k! I have a normal size, rectangular kitchen space. I am in the NW UK. I am quite happy to paint/tile myself. I am starting to explore the avenue of joiners etc but that's equally daunting as I'm frightened of being taken for a ride iyswim.

Sorry, NW england!

I've found an extractor which is adequate for our needs for about £65, and a dishwasher for £200 btw, so I was thinking I'd get these myself and ask whoever fits it to fit them to try and save a bit, as the prices quoted last night for appliances were ridiculous. £350 for their own brand dishwasher. I can get a decent brand one for that.

Id buy the kitchen, pay someone else to fit it, a handy man or someone and do the rest of the work yourself.

Yes get a very good carpenter who'll probably fit it in two days depending on its size roughly £125 a day in our area at the moment for his rate..

Thanks suga. I shall get on the phone on monday I think.

It's daunting all this grown up stuff, pretending I have a clue when I don't. I am sure the sales people think I am stupid, as I've no idea and it shows really.

Oh, and sorry fruity I didn't answer everything! There will be nothing to be done before fit, as we're having building work done first to create one large space, so it'll be an empty blank canvas, with all water/electric points where they need to be, ready for plumbing in everything. I was thinking of asking my builder when I have one (just at quoting stage).

Yes, 'kitchen' seems to equal big ripoff! You should be able to get it fitted for around 5-600 I guestimate and be able to buy the kitchen for a grand or more depending on quality. I found howdens, ikea, wren and wickes to be the cheapest
Impressed you will be doing your own tiling!

Yes, 'kitchen' seems to equal big ripoff! You should be able to get it fitted for around 5-600 I guestimate and be able to buy the kitchen for a grand or more depending on quality. I found howdens, ikea, wren and wickes to be the cheapest
Impressed you will be doing your own tiling!

Thanks merci - twas Wren who gave me that quote! I think the sales girl was pushing for a more expensive kitchen tbh, as we have seen one there we like that we can get for about 1.5k. I understand her doing that but you could have knocked me over with a feather when she quoted £2k for a dry fit!

Wren told me not to bother even asking for a quote for fitting as I could get it done cheaper by a local joiner. They must have spotted my tight fisted qualities :) as you say, they come ready built so how long/hard can it be?!? We could do the units ourselves - it's the worktops/bits round the bottom etc I didn't fancy doing myself. Plus any gas work of course.
Also. If you get indie in, no stupid rubbish about needing to change the electrics/cables to conform to latest standards, which is what you will get if you go with say b and q

Wren told me not to bother even asking for a quote for fitting as I could get it done cheaper by a local joiner. They must have spotted my tight fisted qualities :) as you say, they come ready built so how long/hard can it be?!? We could do the units ourselves - it's the worktops/bits round the bottom etc I didn't fancy doing myself. Plus any gas work of course.
Also. If you get indie in, no stupid rubbish about needing to change the electrics/cables to conform to latest standards, which is what you will get if you go with say b and q