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It's been a while since we've had kitchen spam on BCF.
If this thread catches their attention and we get flooded with kitchen spam then it'll be your fault. |
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If you've got the time, you could look at second hand, and grab a high end kitchen at a bargain price.
We bought a used, top of the range, Magnet kitchen for peanuts, just needed a bit of a clean and fitting, a very sturdy kitchen.
Had some units left over and sold them on!
A new kitchen, base units are much of a muchness, it's the fixtures and finishes you need to spend the money on.
We'll be doing a new kitchen soon, we'll be shopping around and have no worries buying bits and pieces from different sources.
If you can fit it yourself you'll save a fortune and you can customise it as you go along. ____________________ "Everybody needs money, that's why they call it money!" |
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I rate Benchmarx (Trade only). They are exactly the same kitchens Wickes sell. Only real difference is that the
carcasses come pre assembled. Which speeds up fitting a great deal. I worked for them as a stand in warehouseman
for a few months just before I moved to Bristol so am very familiar with their products. I have also fitted their kitchens.
Soft close everything, 18mm thick back panel on all cabinets, 50mm service gap designed in to make plumbing, drainage
and electric routing easier. decent guarantee. You do have to haggle them on price a bit. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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Mate was contracted to fit one for a flat, and he paid me to help, did it either side of Christmas, and got paid at the end, so job finished Jan 2017.
Went via B&Q Trade counter, I think.
What-a-carry-on.
Wrong items, to wrong locations. Endless messing about with returns, and re-deliveries.
Some bits delivered by B&Q, some by courier companies, some by tatty old man with a-very-rusty van. Inability to find us. Bowed work tops. Faulty cookers. Wrong sized units.
Job just went on and on.
Finished job was okay,and it was a nice kitchen at the end, and they did supply everything we paid for, eventually. |
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Choose your doors, drawer covers, handles and hinges from an independent. We got all of ours for £1k which included the chap coming over and measuring up properly. Hardest part is finding these people though, marketing is not their strong point, as ours was a one man show.
You can also get them to order matching adhesive veneers if you want to cover the fronts of fridges etc.
For the worktops we went to a large timber merchants like this
https://www.totemtimber.co.uk/
They are either the cheapest, or for not much more you are getting a superior finish. I used leftover worktop to make a chopping board, and have chopped loads on it, left red hot pans on it and there's not a single mark.
The cupboards - we used the old carcasses as they worked fine. Any additional new ones we got from B&Q which were about £18 a year ago. Same with the drawers, but make sure you check the drawers from B&Q as they tend to mix and match the drawer runners and stick them in the same box, resulting in a PITA to fit them level.
You could do much if it yourself, but you'll need a professional with the proper jig (£80 on it's own) and a router for the worktops to get nice neat joins.
I think our total bill was £1800 but my old man didn't charge for labour. That was about 8 metres of worktop (chipboard, not solid), 15 cupboards, 9 drawers, including all the soft-close hinges etc. ____________________ Current: 2009 SV650 S, 1990 Kawasaki GT550
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Depends on budget really
We had our kitchen replaced just under year ago, and we went to the usual places (B&Q, Wren, Wickes, Howdens)
B&Q worked out the cheapest for us, helped by the fact they offered 2 years interest free
Wren looked cheap to start with, but then didn't offer fitting on their budget range, and after phoning many independent builders/kitchen fitteres, no one wanted to touch a Wren kitchen (or Wickes fior that matter), they would all pretty much exclusively fit only Howdens kitchens (which are top notch), but worked out nearly twice the price of a B&Q kitchen
We spec'd up the B&Q kitchen with a few nice frills (soft close doors/drawers, prestige pan drawers, glass sink etc) and got a really nice kitchen out of it at a very reasonable price IMO ____________________ Current Bike: Honda CG125 ES4 // Honda CB600FS Hornet // Triumph Street Triple R |
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We've just had a Wren one done. Pre-assembled carcasses were super helpful. Service gap at the back for all services. Everything measured right. We had one warped door, replacement was sent out fast.
We had our own fitter though. I really do think it's the fitter that makes it. They will purely farm out fitting to the lowest bidder to make the best margin. The rep at the shop told us to get our own because they just charge a chunk on top of what a fitter would want paying anyway.
https://i.imgur.com/53Z21IGl.jpg
Edit - sorted picture and the cupboards are enormous. ____________________ I'm Sam; Northern, Ginger, Lover
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https://www.diy-kitchens.com/
Preassembled (as per howdens etc) and literally any color you could want.
The downside is you have to measure and order units individually, but if you spend some time doing it it is worth it, our kitchen with granite worktops was about 6k when quotes from other places where coming it at 12-14k.
Fitted myself apart from the worktop which was templated and fitted in the price.
Won't ever use anywhere else for a kitchen, maybe a design and measure but that would be it. ____________________ The BCF's very own Party boy! Though he's getting old and feeling it!
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Hex wrote: | https://www.diy-kitchens.com/
Preassembled (as per howdens etc) and literally any color you could want.
The downside is you have to measure and order units individually, but if you spend some time doing it it is worth it, our kitchen with granite worktops was about 6k when quotes from other places where coming it at 12-14k.
Fitted myself apart from the worktop which was templated and fitted in the price.
Won't ever use anywhere else for a kitchen, maybe a design and measure but that would be it. |
I've seen that website.
What's the quality like? ____________________ You ain't a has been if you never was |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 215 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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