Kitchen and floor where to start

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Hi, we need to change the kitchen but don’t know where to start, where do we go for good quality and good price? We also need a new floor, what do we change first, the floor or the kitchen? Thanks

For the best quality and price, go to www.diykitchens.com

Best to strip the whole lot out including floor, then fit new floor and new units at the same time. The new flooring will probably need to go underneath parts of the units.

We are in the same journey. The kitchen company we’ve gone with have told us if you get herringbone then floor first. If planks / tiles then kitchen first

We are currently looking at kitchens and what has shocked me the most is the cost of fitting! We’ve been quoted 8k in B&Q just for the fitting! It’s only a small kitchen and that quote was not including tiling or floors.

Thanks, we need to look at the type of flooring then… are you using a local company or a big one?

We're about to have a Howdens kitchen installed, we're fully tiling the floor even under the units because we live in an old house with cavity wooden floors and I don't want mice again! Our floor also needs levelling so it's floor first.

We've got one builder doing it all, is that not an option? He's got a plasterer, an electrician, a gas fitter, a tiler etc he works with and he's a carpenter and project manages. I haven't got time or headspace to be coordinating tradesmen whose work is reliant on the one before being finished in time.

Whereas ours is charging 10k for everything, electrics, moving the gas, plastering, tiling , fitting the actual kitchen and painting and that's south east (he subs the specialist bits) . He's done friends' before and his work is really good. Ask for recommendations from friends/colleagues/school gate parents etc. IME the best ones don't sub contract for places like b&q

Flooring a local one. But they seem to be doing all around the UK. It’s hardwood flooring what I’m after

That’s a lot! Mine is U shape with quartz worktop. Magnet was 3k fitting and Schmidt is 2k

We had our kitchen fitted then our tile floor was screeded and a herringbone floor installed.

We were advised kitchen fitting would likely damage a new floor and I agree it would have.

Kitchen fitted 18 months ago.

A friend of ours had her existing kitchen spray painted by this company https://sprayuk.co.uk/ with new handles and then she had the tiling done. Shes paid roughly £3k in total!! and it looks like a brand new kitchen, so it depends on your budget.

Thanks, unfortunately that won’t do for us as cupboards are all wonky and we need a new layout really.

Yes, that’s what we need really, it’s just finding the right person, will ask for recommendations locally, thanks!

Same.

They took ours back to brick and dug out the old floor.

They started fitting the new flooring wall to wall but then it had issues so they took it up and we swapped for tiles (and got reimbursed the first choice by our kitchen suppliers). Then it was kitchen cabinetry fitted first, tiles second (not wall to wall this time, plinth to plinth)

Highly recommend DIY kitchens, their original showroom is well worth a visit if you can get there.

I've done it twice from Hampshire.

quality units for the price.