Buying a new kitchen. Anyone able to provide some advice in respect to the best way to do this? Not sure whether to buy a kitchen from Wren (or similar type of company) and ask them to also do the fitting etc. Or just buy the kitchen only and then get a fitter from mybuilder (or similar) and ask them to fit it.
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New Kitchen advice
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I've heard Wren are pretty poor quality. We bought ours from Ikea and they organised the fitter. All seems fine 5 years on.Buying a new kitchen. Anyone able to provide some advice in respect to the best way to do this? Not sure whether to buy a kitchen from Wren (or similar type of company) and ask them to also do the fitting etc. Or just buy the kitchen only and then get a fitter from mybuilder (or similar) and ask them to fit it.
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Howden's kitchen are great. However trying to find somebody with an account is harder.
I'm in the property business, yet if you don't buy with them regularly, they close your account.
We have a Howdens kitchen. We had the full house refeb'd by a builder but we said we would get an Ikea kitchen as we have had one before and they were/are fine.
Builder said give me the plan and costing and i will see if i can match it. He ended up about 10/20% more by the time we had bought all the bits but was a decent firm and quality is better so we went with it. Without the attempt to price match Ikea i think it would have been 40/50% more. Most kitchen fitter specialists don't pass on the trade discount but ours did as he was already on site and it was easier for him to get his own people to fit.
Spent 12 months looking at kitchens and what I would say is go to somewhere like Wrens for ideas and look at sizes of things like worktops, cupboards, islands etc. Wren tends to be cheap but they make up for it by charging over the odds for fitting. I would recommend going with a specialist kitchen firm and asking them to fit
we went to IKEA and Howdens, we were warned away from Wren as the uptick in price (inc. fitting) is not reflected in the quality (that was 2 people telling me)
IKEA was cheap, no doubt, but two things we got held up on: 1) the quality wasnt really that good and 2) the fitter was not keen at all b'cos if something breaks, something is missing etc, and you dont live near IKEA then you get delays and more delays (there are ALWAYS delays, you dont want more).
We went with Howdens, who busted a gut to price match with IKEA (they ended up ~15% over) and the lass was extremely helpful with the kitchen design. One thing that further concerned me about IKEA was that the Howdens designers were a bit shocked at what the IKEA designer had reckoned could be done. Now that it's fitted i am inclined to agree; i cannot see how IKEA's was remotely possible and it was quoted up and ready to buy, i dread to think what problems that would have caused down the line. We were on a treadmill at IKEA, a queue of people waiting for designs so i cant see how the real thought can be given - was really handy to see it on paper though :D. our Howdens is decent quality without being amazing, happy with it.
IKEA was cheap, no doubt, but two things we got held up on: 1) the quality wasnt really that good and 2) the fitter was not keen at all b'cos if something breaks, something is missing etc, and you dont live near IKEA then you get delays and more delays (there are ALWAYS delays, you dont want more).
We went with Howdens, who busted a gut to price match with IKEA (they ended up ~15% over) and the lass was extremely helpful with the kitchen design. One thing that further concerned me about IKEA was that the Howdens designers were a bit shocked at what the IKEA designer had reckoned could be done. Now that it's fitted i am inclined to agree; i cannot see how IKEA's was remotely possible and it was quoted up and ready to buy, i dread to think what problems that would have caused down the line. We were on a treadmill at IKEA, a queue of people waiting for designs so i cant see how the real thought can be given - was really handy to see it on paper though :D. our Howdens is decent quality without being amazing, happy with it.
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Did mine last year had a local company come out and we sorted the design between us.
Then went into their showroom and chose units work tops etc. Sourced my own cooker/fridge etc and they fitted it all. Based in Middleton so not sure if local to you Vincent.
Then went into their showroom and chose units work tops etc. Sourced my own cooker/fridge etc and they fitted it all. Based in Middleton so not sure if local to you Vincent.
Did mine last year had a local company come out and we sorted the design between us.
Then went into their showroom and chose units work tops etc. Sourced my own cooker/fridge etc and they fitted it all. Based in Middleton so not sure if local to you Vincent.
yeah good advice, dont take Howdens white wear as it's not very good, and IKEA charge way too much. get your own delivered. this is a big saving i reckon.