How long did it take for your kitchen to be fitted?

[peggy0062]

We are thinking of buying a new kitchen.
How long did it take for your kitchen to be fitted?
How much disruption was there?

Were you able to use the hobs/oven/sink etc? Quite a bit issue as I have small children!
Did you use any of the big names like Magnet or Moben? Are they any good?
Thanks

Howdens- a week for the bulk of it (sink was made useable same day) but we aren't living there at min so rest of it is taking a while- handles on doors, tiling, painting etc, electrician to sign off on cooker etc etc. As kitchen is part of major renovation then we couldnt have lived there during.

Ours was a small galley kitchen though so imagine the bigger the kitchen the longer it would take.

we had our kitchen fitted last summer, it required building work as well so not sure if it is a good comparison.
It took just over a month - we made sure we were away for the first 2 weeks so the knocking down of walls and changing windows and doors and stuff were done when we got back.

we stripped everything and started again so there was no using anything whilst it was beign done.

We used a small local kitchen manufacturer and a chap from the village who fits kitchens so no knowledge of the bigger companies.

Sorry reading this back it doesn't sound like any help at all, I will just say that what ever the disruption it has been totally worth it I love my new kitchen.

lurk

Took about ten days, and it's a big kitchen. Had water, sink and cooker after about 3/4 days...Moben were excellent

In our old house it was done in a week (included replacing a couple of floor joists), however none of the services moved so it was straightforward.

In our current house it was a much bigger job, some building/plumbing work needed and a lot of stripping out of old flooring/wall, so it took around 3 weeks.

In neither case were we able to use sinks/cookers etc., but the builders did leave us a standpipe for fresh water. Luckily in our current house we put in a utility room first, so we were able to cook and wash up in there.

In both cases we bought kitchens (MFI and Cooke & Lewis/B&Q) and had an independent joiner do the installation. That was mainly because he's a good friend of ours. The kitchen suppliers will all do you a nice plan and a "shopping list" of components if you want to get your own installer.

going to take 4-5 weeks for ours. Partly because we are stripping back to needing new plaster/ceilings level and partly because we are having a work surface that needs templating which takes an extra week or two. It means we wont have a sink/hob until the bitter end. We are using a local firm.

I am slightly scared, but prepared with lots of freezer meals and dust sheets. watch this space.

I took a week for them to do ours - we timed it so that we were on holiday!

In that week they:

Ripped out the old kitchen
Put up a new ceiling (they took the old one down a few weeks earlier)
Re-did some electrics and extended the gas pipe for the cooker
Installed spot lights (ceiling and under cupboard)
Laid a stone tile floor
Installed new units, sink and worktop

To be fair though, ours is not a massive kitchen (about 10ft x 8ft).
Installed new range-style cooker

blimey! we must have really relaxed fitters! wish they had quoted a week for us too.