Moving kitchen to a different room and floor

[SparkleTwinkleShine]

We have a townhouse with the kitchen on the middle floor. I would really like to move the kitchen to the ground floor where there is a bedroom, utility room, study and en-suite. The bedroom and en-suite are directly below the kitchen. Would this be really pricey? Or difficult? Has anyone done this?

Not especially, the trickiest bit will be ventilation. If you want an externally ducted extractor fan (which you do ideally), is there a route for the vent to get to the outdoors. Also if you want a gas hob, you may need to reroute gas supply although probably not too bad if it’s going directly downstairs.

Yes a vent could go in no problem.

Just a bump to see if anyone else has done this?

We’re moving ours to a different room but not a different floor. If anything yours should be easier than mine as if there’s an en suite and utility then you must have water, drainage and probably ventilation already down there so not far to go with water pipes etc. It obviously depends on the exact layout though. The work for routing water, electricity, sorting the drains, sockets, lighting, moving radiators and replastering (including over boarding the ceiling) is about 6k +vat but we’re having to get drainage and water supply to the room as that isn’t there currently. Then there’s the cost of the kitchen but that is obviously really variable.

I’d say if the new kitchen is going next to the utility or en suite then it shouldn’t be too difficult.

Would it not have originally been on the ground floor in the first place? Seems it was moved to make room for a ground bedroom.

@nowthereistwo It is or was a new build and we are the first owners. It was build like this!