Any room for haggling on IKEA kitchen fitting quote?

[Fourarmsv2]

We've just had a quote for an IKEA kitchen. Happy enough with the kitchen quote, but the fitting seems high? Is there any room to haggle?

Kitchen cost: £4895 (inc w/m, f/f, hob and oven)
Fitting cost: £3390 (not inc. floors, tiling etc)

People who've used IKEA fitters - would you do so again?

for that cost inc fitting £8285 you could actually get a better quality kitchen from an independant and the chances are it would include the fitting of floor and wall tiles depending where in the country you are.
£3390 for a fit is rather expensive

watching with interest. We've had similar quotes and feel the Ikea fitting cost is too steep, but we didn't try to haggle. We are considering building the carcasses ourselves and getting a builder to 'fit' the kitchen and do the worktops. The Ikea kitchen planner told me they have a set price of something like £30 to fit each cabinet...that is how they work out the price and he even agreed this is quite extortionate!

I've heard baaaaad things about Ikea fitters. We put ours in and got people in to do the bits we couldn't (which wasn't very much because I am super handy). Saved a fortune and meant we could add loads of stuff like extra drawers and carousel fittings. Ikea were very nice about taking bits back and ordering extra bits when I screwed up the layout a smidgey bit too. Building the cabinets is very easy and will save you money, attaching them to walls is also easy, as is sticking in drawers, sorting out doors etc. If you're not very handy, you'll want someone to do your plumbing, fit your worktops and put up your wall cupboards, which I think are the tricky bits. Everyone will want to get a gasman to do their gas appliances and an electrician to sort out any sockets etc which need moving.

Ours cost about the same. We went with an independent fitter but with the inevitable faffing about it still cost about as much as the ikea fitting quote.

What I would say is that they are far less likely to want to hack your units. We for example have stacked two base units and a wall unit to make a very tall and wide larder type unit. The ikea fitters were reluctant to fit anything in a non standard manner.

We are just deciding whether to use IKEA fitters or those our builder is recommending. The IKEA quote is based on number of units, appliances etc - so there is a fixed charge of £X per unit, £Y for appliances, £Z for worktops etc. I presume this is all agreed between IKEA and their fitters beforehand to enable IKEA to quote you on the spot, so I think room for negotiation is minimal.

We will probably go with our builder's fitters, simply because the timings work better - we can order the kitchen and store it in the garage ready for it to be fitted, rather than waiting for the site visits etc from the IKEA fitters, then waiting for them to start the job, get the order delivered etc.

We had an Ikea kitchen installed last year but had an independent fitter mainly because we had a kitchen extension built and I couldn't wait for the shell to be up for Ikea to then come out and measure up, then order it etc etc

I would have been without a kitchen for far too long.

The independent fitter was fantastic and cost around £1500, I had 8 base units, 2 larder units, 11 wall units, plus all appliances fitted and plumbed in, floor screed, worktop, breakfast bar and upstands fitted.

Can anyone recommend a kitchen fitter to you?

My sister has just had a kitchen fitted by someone my mum works with, it is OK, but not perfect. Some of that could be due to the quality of her kitchen though. Her fitter was happy to hack - he's a carpenter so made it better than it would have been as standard. The downside is that he does it around his day job so it would take much longer!

Interested to hear any more ideas. I'm in Gloucestershire if anyone can recommend a fitter?

This is for 9 base units, cooker, hood, 8 wall units and 3 larder cupboards so not dissimilar to yours CS.