What did you do with your old kitchen?

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We are replacing the kitchen in our new house, there's nothing particularly wrong with the old kitchen it's just not to our taste. It's about 6 years old.

It seems a waste to chuck it in the tip, but I am already really stressed with the house renovation/work/young DC so don't have loads of time...what have others done? Have you tried eBay or other websites and how difficult was the process?

Thank you!

I see kitchens listed for sale on Facebook marketplace but ours went straight into a skip. It was very satisfying!

Gumtree or facebook - if you can't be bothered to sell just put it on for free.
We reused ours as our utility room!

Sold it on EBay for about £300.

Put mine on “stuff for free” local FB group. Was reserved within 10 minutes. Young couple with a baby moving into an old house with no kitchen. They were thrilled and removed it themselves.

My builders were charging to remove it and recycle it so I actually saved myself money!

My dad used theirs to kit out the garage with storage and workspace.

We are still waiting to replace ours, nine years and counting!

Sold ours cheaply on gumtree and they took it away the next day

Sold on Facebook marketplace for £200. Had 3 offers within half an hour and it was collected that weekend

We used ours to kit out the garage with storage space and my oh repurposed a long work surface into a work bench, so it's all come in handy - well, the bits we used. The rest was chucked, it was too old to even give away.

Have fitted out garage, outhouses with old kitchens. Very useful there.

Sold it on fb for £800. We basically bagged a grand as it also saved us an extra skip load. Was brilliant

Thanks all! When you say people came to collect it, did they bring someone to actually remove it or did you have to do that first?

Sold mine on FB marketplace for £1000 inc appliances , the buyer came and dismantled the whole lot.

did they bring someone to actually remove it or did you have to do that first?

You need to specify your preference really. Some sellers don’t want to do the work or risk damage so list it as buyer to remove and collect others don’t want people stomping through their house and just remove it themselves and pile it in the garage for collection.

Have a look and watch a few on eBay so you can see how the sell & how they write the listing.

I bought two 2nd hand kitchens off of eBay. One is in my kitchen (funny old thing), the second is in my conservatory as a workshop/utility room.

My kitchen was 35 years old, so it went in the skip! Along with my 47 year old bathroom...!

I had a skanky Beech kitchen that was pretty horrid, I put it up for free and the loveliest man came an collected it. They spent a morning carefully dismantling it and sent pics of it refitted. They were really chuffed

Builder took ours for one of his other properties. He knocked some money off the work for it.

DH was fitting our new kitchen so removed the old one.

My next door neighbour bought ours as they had a rental property. He did some work for us, and discounted it heavily against the kitchen.

You’re replacing a 6-year-old kitchen because it’s “not to your taste”?

Our poor planet.

Put it on Freecycle.

FamilyOfAliens
OP is asking what to do with the kitchen other than put it in the skip. They aren't mindlessly throwing it out so are considering other options that will benefit our planet.

Your comment was unnecessary.

We have a kitchen to remove too. How long does it take to remove and how hard?

Thanks so much for all the suggestions! Sounds like I should be able to find a way to get it to a good home relatively simply

That’s why she’s trying to recycle it

I sold 2 on local fb selling pages, reused ovens, fridge, dw, hob, extractor.
My builder took them down, but seller picked them up.