First home - new kitchen, underfloor heating, pocket/sliding door... COSTS!

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Hi all, this is my first ever thread on here. I find this platform so helpful that I thought I'd go ahead and ask my own question. Myself and my partner are in the process of buying our first home, I'm hoping you lovely lot can clarify some costs for me and tell me if I'm being realistic, or even let me know how much you paid. I've outlined the costs I've budgeted for below.

Kitchen
£8k including all appliances and worktops (I know may be cheaper to source appliances and worktops separately so that’s an option, I’ve also heard that Howden’s have a sale in October)
£1.8k for fitting, plastering and adding any new electric sockets

Pocket door or sliding door
£600 including door and fitting

Flooring - 36sqm
£2-2.5k for electric underfloor heating (in hallway, kitchen and living room not the downstairs w/c).
£2k for porcelain wood effect flooring throughout downstairs and carpet upstairs, including fitting, also to replaster any walls that may have needed the skirting removed when replacing the flooring. (I know flooring depends on what we choose - the one I’ve seen for downstairs is around £14 per sqm). My partner does have a family friend who fits flooring but not UFH.

Basically, we’ve budgeted £15k but ideally needs to cover all these aspects, we were planning on going with Wren originally because they do the 5-year interest-free payment plan, but we were advised to go with Howden's that unfortunately don't offer it. Hoping from my research I’m not too far off but let me know if you have any suggestions or experience with these home reno aspects and costs! Thank you in advance

Thanks all for your help! No UFH, spend more money on the kitchen and get vertical radiators. We might actually wait a little bit longer to get the kitchen done so we have a bit more £££.

@wonkylegs that is a super helpful tip - appreciate that! ☺️

[quote wonkylegs]@chloechloe you aren't supposed to have rugs with electric UFH, you also shouldn't have furniture that sits directly on the floor it must have legs. This is because it can overheat and break or worse be a fire risk. It's not a problem with wet UFH systems.

OP vertical rads work just as well as horizontal ones as long as they are an adequate size for the room.
Try a website like www.bestheating.com which has a calculator to tell you what size you need in BTU/Watts and then you can find a matching radiator you like. [/quote]
We have wet UFH so don’t have this issue!

We have had electric underfloor heating as secondary heating for 25 years - the first lot was a lot more basic but the last time it was much more sophisticated! It really came into its own when our central hearing broke down one Christmas.
We have it in our en-suite now and are putting in the new kitchen extension in the living area near the bifold doors - that will be in addition to column radiators as well in the other bathrooms. It’s is comparatively cheap to install and as secondary heating is not expensive to run. We will have smart thermostats.