Reusing old appliances in new kitchen?

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Just curious as to whether anyone has done this? Obviously all the kitchen places quote for new appliances as part of the design. We definitely want to replace the oven, which is on its last legs, and we want a new fridge freezer (integrated) and hob. But there’s nothing wrong with the dishwasher and washing machine.

Equally, it’s not like they’re only a couple of years old. So would keeping them and reintegrating them into the new kitchen be sensible or a false economy?

Yes of course. Why wouldn’t you?

Keep them. If you need to replace in a few years, that’s easily done- it’s not hard to replace a dishwasher.

As long as they're standard size and easily replaceable as in a new one would fit in their gap, sure! We kept our oven in the new kitchen and it worked fine

Thank you. I’m only hesitating because of their age - they’re about nine years old we think - but the dishwasher is a Bosch and works really well so seems madness to get rid of it!

I’m away to put my oven into a new kitchen, it had cost £1400 it was only 15 months old when we moved house, so it came with us and has sat on the dining room floor for a year waiting for it’s new home

We are keeping all appliances bar oven and hob. I'm not buying new appliances for the sake of it. When they break they will get replaced if they can't be fixed.

We kept all our appliances in our new kitchen. It's immoral to get rid of something just because it's not new...

gziven most appliance do well to last 10 years, you’re going to have to replace then at some point in the future life of our kitchen even if you replace them now.
so no point…only replace items that are on last legs and the rest keep on going with until they break down. Otherwise you’re being wasteful on environment and throwing money away, kitchen showroom experts need to readjust their thinking

We kept our dishwasher and washing machine.
If they’re working I would keep them, you could end up getting a new one and it breaks in the first 2 years. If yours are reliable I’d keep them.

The only exception would be if yours are freestanding and you wanted to change to having everything built in.

Thanks, you’re all confirming my thinking. We are replacing the oven as I’d prefer eye level and ours is already on borrowed time, and replacing the hob as we’d like to switch to induction. And a new fridge freezer as the one we have is tiny. But no reason to replace the other two and both are already integrated and a standard size (I think - will double check). I agree, it feels criminal to just skip them!

We will be attempting to donate or otherwise pass on the fridge freezer as it’s got plenty of life left in it.

Do you use Freecycle? It’s great for passing on bulky things, that’s how we got rid of our old fridge.

@MyCatIsNotFittingMyKitchen
We moved 2 built in fridges, 1 built in freezer, 2 ovens, microwave and dishwasher into a new kitchen and washing machine and tumble dryer into the new laundry room. All kitchen appliances were around 8 years old at the time. 12 years on, one oven, the microwave and the dishwasher have been replaced. The washing machine and tumble dryer were older than 7 years and both got to around 18 years before they packed up.

However, I really wouldn’t have built in fridge/freezer if you can avoid it. More expensive to run. Far less choice. I’ve still got my 2 x Leibherr fridges. Still going strong. But replacing them won’t come cheap!

In our last renovation we kept the oven, hob, integrated fridge freezer and washing machine. Got a new dishwasher as the old one didn't work properly. It saved us a lot of money, which was necessary at the time.

This is why I favour freestanding (not built in/integrated) appliances, plugged into a wall socket, with an accessible isolating switch above the worktop. You can pull them out and push in a new one in about a minute.

Tile the floor first or you will have a step that makes it very difficult to get them out.

BTW to help appliances slide, clean the sticky floor first, and lube it with WD40, or with WUL mixed with water.

I reused the integrated fridge (approx 4 or 5 years old) when some of the kitchen was repositioned in 2003 to accommodate an extension.
I then reused the same integrate ld fridge in 2019 when I had a new kitchen.
It is still fine.

I replaced the oven (18yo and sold it for £50) as I wanted a bigger one.

Replaced the integrated dishwasher as it was end of life and needed replacing anyway.

Freestanding washing machine & tumble drier in the utility just reused.

Yes we did too , they were fine . I got the oven cleaned and it was like new ..
I will replace again when they die ..

I'll be keeping my fridge/freezer (freestanding) because I prefer them to integrated.

the oven & job will be going (sadly) as it's probably older than me & free standing. The new one will be undercounter (no room anywhere for eye level, unfortunately)

no dishwasher now, might get a slim line (no room for full size)

washing machine is free standing, it's 12 years old now, but no problems with it, so it's staying. I'm going to get an integrated door though & will buy integrated when I need to replace it. If I still had a utility id go for free standing, but in my tiny kitchen Integrated will make it look a little less bitsy!!

your plan is fine!!

look at the appliances your being quoted for, they're usually more expensive for worse quality than if you source them yourself

& look at DIY KITCHENS for your units.

hob , not job!!!

phone might be going on freecycle!! 🤬

Yes, we did this with our old house - oven was condemned when we moved in, so builder got it out and we bought a freestanding one and put it in the gap. Then used it in our new kitchen a few years later.

We've just moved again and have brought most of our appliances with us to put in our new kitchen when it's done. They're all working fine and are decent brands so no point buying new. It also felt better environmentally and having appliances across a range of ages hopefully means they won't all need replacing at once!

Yes - we moved the kitchen to a bigger room, bought some new appliances (hob, fan, additional oven) and transferred the existing (integrated oven, dishwasher and fridge). No issues at all so far, they've been in for 18 months.