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How do we go about getting a complete kitchen put in?

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Magmatic80 · 21/02/2015 17:47

Hello, two house owning novices here. You dear people have already helped us a lot about surveys which was very gratefully received. Thank you!
We haven't completed on our house purchase yet, but the kitchen is basically non-existent so we are wanting to get organised to have new one fitted ASAP after we get the keys!
Kitchen is teeny weeny galley, and we need completely new fitted kitchen, self-levelling floor, flooring, plastering, tiling, plumbing. The works.
We are not confident at all with arranging all the bits/trades ourselves, so the 'package' thing where we just send in Homebase or whoever to do the whole thing is what we would prefer to do. The finance thing attached to this idea also would help us free up the £8k kitchen budget we have left from deposit and fees to have a 'disaster' fund available immediately whilst we find our feet in our new purchase!
My question is, who apart from Homebase does this? Do ikea? Have heard good things about their kitchens but want whole fitting package from wherever we buy kitchen. Does anyone else do it that you would recommend? We're talking proper basic kitchen by the way, no frilly lovely expensive bits allowed :( Budget is £8k for everything including labour and oven/hob/extractor.
Will need to buy fridge and washing machine seperately to survive while we wait for kitchen!

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tellmemore1982 · 21/02/2015 23:40

Your budget sounds realistic, another option is to go to howdens / benchmarx and get the name of independent kitchen fitters locally from them to install. They can often do the tiling and plumbing for you too. I can't speak for ikea kitchens but have seen / bought both the above.

My experience with homebase has been awful. I recently bought tiles from them and found deliveries were late, wrong products sent out, products damaged and then there were all sorts of problems with collections. I complained bitterly and was given a £50 gift card and told "I understand, I'm sorry it happens all the time".

Please save yourself the grief and don't use homebase.

Magmatic80 · 22/02/2015 07:14

Ah, excellent. Thank you! We felt a bit nervy yesterday with them as the designer guy seemed to be pushing us to use an independent fitter that he would recommend as it would be £2k cheaper. Still a homebase fitter, but on an independent basis. Smacked of a backhander to us!

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Lagoonablue · 22/02/2015 08:19

Independent fitters are cheaper though. By a lot sometimes.

Have you looked at small independent companies? They will often undercut the quotes from big companies. Look around your local town for them. May not do finance though.

J0YFULJ0YFUL · 22/02/2015 09:12

Does anyone have any tips on finding good forums for kitchen fitters and tradesmen?
I have heard mixed experiences of ratedpeople and mybuilder.com

Thanks!

J0YFULJ0YFUL · 22/02/2015 09:13

I should add, I'm in the same position as Magmatic80 - but I've heard that the fitting service at Magnet, Homebase etc is a rip off even though you can often get good deals on the units. It seems its even hard trying to find people to get quotes from?

minibmw2010 · 22/02/2015 10:15

How about Wren?

Rosings25 · 22/02/2015 13:07

There is a very long thread in MN on Wren kitchens - sandwiches chocolate and a flask.

MonkeySeeMonkeyDooo · 22/02/2015 15:12

I've used Rated people and checkatrade with success. I can recommend our local kitchen company if anyone is midlands based. They are great.

MissWimpyDimple · 22/02/2015 15:17

We used b&q and they were fine really.

Wickes is another option...

Magmatic80 · 22/02/2015 15:31

Thanks everyone, used checkatrade to find a drains expert and was very happy yesterday with the result. Just spent a while finding kitchen fitters and am cheered by all the positive reviews for a few. Maybe this won't be so scary and overwhelming after all!

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LumpySpacedPrincess · 22/02/2015 16:07

Ikea offer a complete service plus 0% finance, not sure how good they are though.

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