quoted 16k kitchen feel awkward about declining this quote.

[winewolfhowls]

Just wondered if I'm out of touch with prices.

We have a small gallery kitchen in the North. We would need new appliances (dishwasher and oven), old kitchen taking out and skimming. Flooring, electrics, tiling the walls, and painting not included. Approx three strides of me across kitchen for size guide. All our choices are mid range, including appliances, quartz counter tops. No posh gadgets.

I was thinking maybe 10!

The bloke doing the quote was lovely, which is making me feel awkward about declining the quote since they put so much time into the design, but we definitely can't afford this.

If it's just me out of touch I guess we need to just save more!

That seems very expensive to me considering not all the fitting is included. I'm in the south east and just ordered from DIY kitchens. Kitchen and utility room (14 units Inc 3 full height) with solid wood doors, aeg appliances and quartz worktops came to £13k. Fitter is another £4k on top but includes plumbing, electrics, flooring. For context- I had quotes from 3 independents. One refused to quote as I'd already had the diy price by then. Another was £25k and the last £50k!! Magnet around £20k and howdens £14k but these were for foil wrapped mdf doors and compact laminate worktops. If I were you, I'd get a few quotes and get some places out to measure and design for you. Then I'd send that quote to DIYK to get their price. Then I'd use it to haggle with, or just buy from them. Good luck!!

We used DIY Kitchens and DH fitted the units, he os quite handy and we went for base units and full height units but nothing wall mounted (otherwise we would have got a fitter). I did the measuring myself, and quadruple checked it but it was actually pretty easy. Highly recommend the quality of their product, we're 4 years on and they are all going strong looking great and no issues with hinges/handles/drawer runners etc.

IKEA do much better value.

Sounds high end of normal.

Get more quotes, but also say you can’t afford that. I was amazed that our most recent quote got cut by £1500 when I turned them down. I wasn’t trying to negotiate, we genuinely couldn’t afford it. I guess they knew I pay on the nail with no quibbles maybe, or perhaps it was a small job they could fit in around other ones.

Always get personal recommendations and try and see the actual fitted kitchen. Don't believe every review you read online

This, use other kitchen companies to come up with plans, one might win out over the others.

DIY kitchens are a brilliant supplier and you can get your own fitter to fit them. We bought our kitchen from Ikea over a decade ago and got an independent local fitter.

Also look online for appliances to see what is out there and price differences. We have Hotpoint appliances that replaced the Whirlpool ones, they were far less money despite looking almost identical and are made by the same parent company.

@ChaliceinWonderland actually DIY kitchen is better, more choice because they offer things like 500mm cabinets which Ikea does not and I say this as someone with an Ikea kitchen. They also come fully assembled apart from the incredibly large corner walk in pantry units so that saves a lot of time for the fitter too.

Friend has a large kitchen, she went to ikea. I haven’t seen it yet so can’t comment, but she said it was so much cheaper than other quotes.

That’s an expensive quote. Try and find a retired builder who doesn’t need the money. Should be £6-8kmax. Appliances are not expensive if you buy separately either. AO are good.

Beautiful kitchen 😁

Does a kitchen fitter do the plumbing and electrical work too, or just the cupboards?

Gosh I'm shocked at the range of your quotes!

Seems about right, mine was £10k but no labour and no skimming, only one appliance but that was a range

How did you take accurate measurements though? I wouod be terrified I’d get it all wrong. Maths is not my strong point .How do you know what appliances to get, what they would measure and whether they would fit?

Expensive or not, if its more than you had budgetted for then just say so.

I went to Wren about 5 years ago for our tiny tiny kitchen. 7 cabinets needed, 1.5 meters of counter top, fitted cooker, sink and taps. Nothing fancy as this is not our forever home. We said we'd remove all of the old kitchen and get the electrics sorted and would be tiling after.. so a case of putting a new kitchen in, attaching new plumbing to existing pipework and they quoted £14k. I nearly fell off my chair, I'd priced up most of it before went in and was expecting about £4k for stuff and a couple of grand for fitting, bearing in mind could be done in a day, two max. I asked for a breakdown of items in their quote and they refused. Total red flag.

The UK is an utter rip off throughout. Needless to say, didn't get a new kitchen!

Just say you’ll get back to him with a decision once you’ve got a few more quotes.

We have a small victorian style property with galley like kitchen, ours is a little awkward shape and window wise. I have watched Facebook marketplace for those ripping out their existing perfectly functional kitchens. And some have had standalone units. And for the life of me I could barely fit much of them into our space so it's pretty pointless for us to buy/consider a modern fitted kitchen. All we really need is an island/top. A sink. Fridge/Freezer. Cooker. And a couple of bits of second hand furniture like a welsh dresser. You can even incorporate old furniture into a kitchen and add a good quality worktop. That might well be the most expensive part. To me that would look much nicer than a modern fitted kitchen. It's probably more fun too. If it's a true galley kitchen with two long worktops it can make for a very practical and pleasing design. Spend money on a good floor.

Hey @winewolfhowls - we’ve had a kitchen extension done and a local northern company (we live near Burnley, Lancashire) fit and supply kitchen.

£10k for a lovely kitchen and island and thick quartz worktops, and all lighting and bin fittings etc. they installed and added all matching trim to make some units flush with ceiling.

we had a separate plasterer, electrician etc that all knew each other and worked well together.

we used existing appliances from old kitchen - otherwise I think I’d have bought quality second hand ones.

we sourced a lot of new radiators, sink and toilet for utility room etc over several months via website offers or Facebook marketplace unused items.

i don’t have more pics on phone but there is also a whole wall of floor to ceiling cupboards behind this side with a double pantry cupboard, a storage cupboard and the fridge is in its own built in space.

we are still adding bits, like the green glittery splash back was purchased last week for £350 (custom made to our size) and we’ve just glued it in place and siliconised around it this week. I’m painting and papering next week.

happy to send contractor details if your in my area or more pics.

Another vote for IKEA- I’ve had a new ikea kitchen 3 times each time I’ve moved. Great value and excellent quality!

That's high to me. I'd expect it to cost around 12k all in (minus plastering and flooring) for a decent quality kitchen of that size with quartz worktop and appliances, unless you're picking the top of the range everything. Can recommend DIY. Best decision we made when we got ours done. Top quality kitchen for low prices.

Get a few quotes (it's fine to not go with them but would say at least 3). Find a trusted fitter, shop around for your appliances and go direct to a worktop company would be my top tips. It shouldn't cost the earth to have it fitted either. With what you're describing, and from my experience, about 1.5k would be reasonable for fitting only.

You could just say to the guy who quoted, thank you but we've decided not to go ahead right now as it's a lot more than we were expecting. Or thanks, we are in the process of getting some other quotes and will come back to you if we want to go ahead. It's standard, no need to feel awkward.

It seems expensive to me if no other building work tiling electrics is covered. Appliances can be a cheap or expensive as you want them to be you don't have to order them through a kitchen company ditto sinks and worktops.
Cabinet makers often do kitchens and will fit them and if they arent large companies you won't be paying overheads.
If you some of the research yourself you save all that money that you pay for the "package".
Even dismantling an old kitchen and skipping it can be done more cheaply if you do it yourself , it's usually just a question of two people and locating the screws behind the cabinets after you have taken off the doors.

Find a local fitter who is happy to measure up and install a DIY Kitchen and get a few quotes from worktop suppliers. Shop around for the appliance. I think you should be able to bring it down significantly. Minimise tiling where possible as that adds a lot of cost.

I had a new kitchen installed made of painted wood and ply cabinets by a cabinet maker in a kitchen slightly larger than size you describe with Formica worktops including sink and taps, (appliances were £1000 including extractor I bought myself) handles were about 400£ purchased separately and kitchen itself fully fitted was £15,000. That's for a handmade kitchen including worktops. Plumbing and electrics and tiling I organised separately they cost very little - new ring was most expensive bit that was £1500 including under cabinet lights and wall lights and the oven connection etc. This was in Ireland where labour is expensive now. I think my kitchen was comparable in price to a massive market kitchen from a big outfit but because he fitted his own product it worked out cheaper for the quality.

If I had bought the same kitchen from a bigger specialist kitchen company in that part of Ireland it would have been the same price but not such quality/ so bespoke.

I also think quartz is on its way out because of the health implications ?? I may be wrong perhaps there is a new version

It sounds OK to me.

Ours cost £10k 20 years ago, but is still going strong.