Is the cost of a new kitchen - AIBU

[CrappingMyself]

Got a quote in for a new kitchen - £15k! Kitchen is approx 3mx5m (10ft x 16ft) in size so not huge.

Includes removing and disposing old kitchen incl tiling, new carcasses and doors. New worktops, splash backs and flooring and then painting. But no new appliances.

I thought the price was exhorbitant but another family member disagrees. If it matters at all, we're in the SE.

YABU - the price is right! YANBU - go elsewhere,

Could be worth waiting for sales - we did our utility 2 years ago and went once to Magnet to design it (they were really helpful), and then life got in the way - when we next had time to think about it, it was the summer sale and it was about half the price we'd been quoted previously there.

It was pretty much the most basic units and doors, slightly better counter but not wood/stone, some reasonable looking laminate floor. In the sale came to around £2000 IIRC, was a lot cheaper than I'd expected. Fitting cost extra. Did tiling ourselves as was only splash back.

My kitchen is costing £5800. I got a self employed fitter on recommendation from
Someone.

I had three quotes. All pretty much the same.

Another vote for DIY kitchens! We had a plan drawn up at Wickes but it was too expensive, we got very similar looking units at DIY for less, and the quality is really good. You can input your existing plan on their website, and someone from the company will comment on it and male suggestions if they think you've missed something etc.

Then get a local fitter to fit - ours arranged electrician and had a tiler he works with.

We had a large galley kitchen and utility fitted with units and a sink in each, new oven, combi oven / microwave, extractor and induction hob, plus floor tiles in kitchen, dining area, utility and conservatory, and paint work done. I don't think we paid much more than 15k, and tiling is expensive!

I nearly got caught out: I got two quotes, one for 10K, one for £11.5K. I assumed that would be the going rate. Then I had a chap in doing carpentry and he mentioned that he fits kitchens. He's putting in a Howden's kitchen for me. It will cost about £6K including appliances, which I'm sourcing myself. He's organising the plumber and the electrician. My kitchen is very small, but my advice to you is don't go to a company that offers you flashy kitchens and 'project management'. Find a good local joiner.

I have just paid 9k for a new kitchen Inc all new integrated appliances . My kitchen is 4 x 4.5. Flooring was an additional £900, but included hall, dining room and cloakroom. I paid an additional £1900 for plastering, electrical and gas works , eg relocation of services and new sockets etc . So all I'm around 12k . I went for mid range units and upgraded appliances. I recommend sourcing your own fitter as they will be much cheaper than the kitchen company, mine did all the extra work I needed for me too. I am painting myself.

I am in Scotland, things might be cheaper uo here though

Had our kitchen just before Christmas. Quote sounds about right if you're factoring in supply and fit from same source. I was staggered when I first started looking into kitchens and thought 'surely not' but soon came to realise that'sjust what they'repriced at.

However, you can make savings.

If you shopped around I'm fairly sure you could get appliances included in that quote.

Get different elements from different suppliers. We got our carcasses and worktops from different suppliers. Handles we got from the Internet which saved loads! Use an independent fitter.

We did the work ourselves and got our £15k kitchen done for £5k through savings as above and self labour.

We also work full time, have two kids and a small menagerie, so it's doable. However, we're both keen DIYers and the kids are older. And 2 weeks of it were hellish when the house was rammed with kitchen parts while we had to wait for plaster to dry etc and were reduced to eating potnoodles in bed. It's not for everyone.

Good luck. It'll be worth it in the end.

Sure the sky's the limit on kitchens! I got a mid range kitchen, 5m by 2m galley which was £26k fitted. It was solid wood (including the carcass), Quooker tap, good quality appliances. I say mid range because I could have easily spent twice that, but I guess probably top end for average buyer.
I renovate properties and for your size kitchen I spend about £8-9k at Howdens, including integrated fridge/freezer, dishwasher and washing machine, laminate worktops that I continue up the wall, and then about £1,200 to fit it. But that's well outside London.

Have found the same thing on bathrooms too tbh, just had recent quotes ranging from 3.5k to fit to 6.5k to fit thats without the furniture !! It’s only 5ft by 6ft!!

@maofteens
£1200 to fit a kitchen is a bargain!

@Couchbettato

Can you buy a used/ex display kitchen to save money?

She can (as we have) however a large chunk of her quote will be the work to instal it and unless they can do the work themselves they will be stuck with that.

We have just purchased a kitchen with a original cost of around £70k from the Used Kitchen Company for £11k. Includes very high spec appliances and we are fitting it ourselves. You can get some very good bargains

Even if you don't use DIY kitchens, as a bench mark for price I thin it's useful to know what the cabinets would cost in terms of reasonable quality..
Then you can work out how much others do the mark up by.

Weve been pricing up a new kitchen and it seems very much to me that fitting costs about the same again as the kitchen itself. Add on any redcorating/plastering/tiling/floor laying and I csnt imagine it being much less than 15k

@Payproblems

Even if you don't use DIY kitchens, as a bench mark for price I thin it's useful to know what the cabinets would cost in terms of reasonable quality.. Then you can work out how much others do the mark up by.

We actually got our local independent place to price match DIY Kitchens so it's always worth asking!

As others have said, you can do it cheaper either by doing much of it yourselves or going to a budget store and buying more budget friendly options Ie IKEA, diy kitchens etc, but your current pricing is fairly standard.

A kitchen can be £5k to £250k. At the lower end of the spectrum you’re looking at project managing it yourself and possibly doing some DIY, you’ll probably get laminate worktops, plastic wrapped doors and thin plywood on the back of chipboard cupboards. At the upper end it’ll be a turnkey job with bespoke handmade solid wood cupboards, granite worktops and hand cut slate floors, you won’t have to lift a finger and they’ll sort all the decor and even put new plates and cutlery in the cupboards.

Sounds about right if it's somewhere like a kitchen 'specialist'. I'd check building merchants if you can.

When we had our kitchen, we were initially quoted £51k (I am laughing now as I type because it was so fucking ridiculous) and that would have been the exact budget of our extension. Although part of that was because we were going to have a granite worktop over a large space including a massive island.

We went a few places, ditched the granite on the massive island and ended up at Benchmarx and paid about £11k (excluding fitting as our builders did it) including Neff appliances.

Thanks everyone, we've got another company coming to quote this week so will see what they say.

There is no room for us to take any aspect of DIY on at the moment, DH does not want to and I have no time (I just about get an hour to myself at the end of a long day of work and other family commitments incl caring), so yep, I guess we are paying for that 'convenience' of someone taking that aspect all on.

Good luck, but get a third quote too.

We got a ~5x3.5m kitchen from Howdens for £6k all in, including appliances and a few luxuries (hot water tap, insinkerator). 5 tower units (fridge, oven stack, larder), around 10 base units with 5 burner hob, breakfast bar, integrated bins & wine fridge. Dark shaker style doors and solid wood worktops.

Definitely do some shopping around! Howdens matched B&Q’s price but the quality is much better having had both now. We are outskirts of London.

What about a second hand kitchen?
People sell them on eBay

I paid 1k for mine. Obviously I had to pay some one to fit it as well
But was a much cheaper option