How does a kitchen refit work?

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We are considering knocking down the wall between kitchen and dining room and installing a new kitchen.

Our current kitchen was never exactly 'finished' . We planned it at ikea and builder installed, so never really synchronised and it has annoying gaps etc and never quite had that 'finished ' look.

If you're getting a new floor and building work done etc, how do you plan this around the kitchen installation if you go with a company like wren or howdens?

Would love to hear tips and advice. Thank you

Bumping, thanks

we didnt knock a whole wall down and ours took longer because of covid lockdowns but
we picked which company we wanted to use (DIY kitchens)
then which kitchen went to the showroom for this
then did the plans for how we wanted it this took a while as we wanted it perfect
then worked out what else needed doing kitchen ordered with six week lead time
in our case a brick chimney out of the corner
1986 kitchen units out
electrics replacing and new plugs in the right places 1st fix
then all the walls plastering
electrics finished off second fix
plaster dry painted walls & ceiling
then units arrived and fitters booked for that weekend
the tiling put in between worktops and cupboards
hit second lockdown so
flooring (sheet vinyl) finally ordered and fitted
kitchen done

Not quite sure what you mean? We've rejigged a couple of kitchens including knocking down walls. If you go with Howdens you have to order via your builder/joiner. You just go to the kitchen showroom with your dimensions, choose what you want and to and fro a bit until you're happy with everything. Then builders fits it.

Word of advice, Howdens kitchens are great but you're better buying appliances elsewhere.

We had Howdens design the kitchen the way we wanted then were very lucky with the builder we chose due to friends recommendations.
He did everything, walls knocked down, doors repositioned, tiling, moved radiators, electrics, plumbing etc..
He ripped out old kitchen himself and just cracked on fitting the new one.
Took about two weeks.

Thanks all. Maybe I'm wondering more about using a shops kitchen design service- do you give the measurements and what you want and they somehow factor it all in without leaving any crappy spaces?

Do we then give that to the builder and he works around it?

Thank you

we got wickes to do a measure for us as we were looking at one of their kitchens first but when we got there and he did the plans we didnt like the kitchen we had our eyes on, so we took the printed from wickes plan to DIY and they worked from that with a few tweeks that we wanted afterwards

Don't use Wren.

DIY Kitchens are great.