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[cem_devecioglu]

buy some ready parts, assemble , cut ,work..

and call friends and dont pay that crazy money!!

[Big_Al]

Tunnie,  I fit kitchens & bathrooms - £3500 sounds a lot but the complete job is quite involved.  It's not only fitting the base units , worktops and cupboards, you have electrics, plumbing and possible gas adaptions to sort ,as well as tiling to both floor and walls.

For the DIY er the most difficult part of fitting the actual units would be if you wanted mitred (seemless) corner joints on the worktops. My advice is leave this to a pro. Price in my area is £100 a joint

The other way is to use to ali corner joiners and end strips, looks quitye neat but you do get a raised strip on the work top surface about 2mm x 20mm.

As a ball park figure to fit just base units, plinths, worktops and all cupboards in an average  3 sided 12 x 12 kitchen  - about £800 labour
 
Good luck - Go for it - do it yourself

Any info required feel free to PM me

Regards, Al

[Darth Loo-knee]

About ten years ago I went to Mfi to look at some fitted wardrobes, they wanted 700 odd quid for the wardrobes and over £900 to fit them ..... so I did them for free

[Richie London]

i ripped a 125,000 kitchen out a house  2 yrs ago, they didnt like the colour. it was sold on e bay for 25,000. bloke was a russian banker, house cost 9million

[Danny]

i ripped a 125,000 kitchen out a house  2 yrs ago, they didnt like the colour. it was sold on e bay for 25,000. bloke was a russian banker, house cost 9million

and in today's market it's worth £45,000

[Marks DTM Calib]

And being a banker....so is he.  

[tunnie]

The worktops are easy enough.

You need a jig (I ahv one) and a good router (I haev a big Ryobi one). A few masons mitres adn off you go.

As for units, I found the screwfix ones excellent (pre-assembled!), reasonably priced and made by Moores.

I likes the sound of that!

I am not fussed on the style, as long as looks nice and won't go fashion so to speak.

I'll have a browse at their site tomorrow, my biggest worry is the joints on top of the work tops if i came to do it.

[Kevin Wood]

I'll have a browse at their site tomorrow, my biggest worry is the joints on top of the work tops if i came to do it.

Patience is the key there. You can get them better than your average kitchen fitter but it's painstaking, especially if your worktops go round 3 sides of a room that's not square.

Kevin

[feeutfo]

mfi supplied my units pre assembled, not that you should use them now. They will probably go bust before delivery. Have to say it was quite easy.

 Work tops where a bit of a pig in mine though. The longest of a u shape section had to come in through the window. If you router the work tops make sure you do the relevent side upside down or the router will "blow out" the leading edge and bugger the join. You have to make note of the direction the router turns. Once you get that, its easy with a jig, and gives perfect results. You can use biscuits and glue/bolt them together. Make sure you specify the work top depth etc when buying or renting a router. The smaller ones aint man enough.

 Those aluminium strips are nasty, they catch food and your always banging them and then they scratch and look shite.

If you have gas though get a pro. It has to be legal and certified. I could have done it myself from what i saw but not worth the risk.
Hth

[Allenm]

The worktops are easy enough.

You need a jig (I ahv one) and a good router (I haev a big Ryobi one). A few masons mitres adn off you go.

As for units, I found the screwfix ones excellent (pre-assembled!), reasonably priced and made by Moores.

I likes the sound of that!

I am not fussed on the style, as long as looks nice and won't go fashion so to speak.

I'll have a browse at their site tomorrow, my biggest worry is the joints on top of the work tops if i came to do it.

Tunnie,

You just need a decent 1/2" router and the Jig - You will also need an extra long bit for the router, but if you hire the kit (router, jig) it will come with a kitchen fitters kit.  I did mine, it is not difficult (although I know how to handle a router), the key is very small depths of cut and make lots of passes, also when you are cutting, hold the router against the waste side of the jig until you have completed the cut, then run a final pass holding the router against the other side of the jig.  this will give you a nice clean line for the joint.  you use bolts to fix it together and run a bit of clear silicon along the top of one edge to make it waterproof.

I have a box of the bolts you need, so let me know if you want some (3 per joint) - (free obviously!).

Good luck!
Merv

[Marks DTM Calib]

As said, I have a half inch router and the correct jig.

[Richie London]

i knew i had some pics somewhere

125.000 kitchen


this was painted above the dining room, cost 5k



the wallpaper for the hall stairs and landing was 5k a roll
8ftx8ft wall tiles for shower was 30k
loft conversion 150k
swimming pool and sauna
115k

and so on  

and i forgot, the view from the bedroom window was cliff richard staring across from a window in his house through the trees  

[cem_devecioglu]

i knew i had some pics somewhere

125.000 kitchen

this was painted above the dining room, cost 5k



the wallpaper for the hall stairs and landing was 5k a roll
8ftx8ft wall tiles for shower was 30k
loft conversion 150k
swimming pool and sauna
115k

and so on  

and i forgot, the view from the bedroom window was cliff richard staring across from a window in his house through the trees  

  for that money you can buy a good home!

and as I'm working for a building and design company also

I've seen much better ones and most expensive costing 15000 £

(everything included) ..A good quality standard size kitchen here is

avg 3000-4000 £ depending on the granite you use..

[Richie London]

he was only moving in for a yr while he had a house built, costing 100m
money to burn from a 32yr old man worth 3.5 billion

[cem_devecioglu]

he was only moving in for a yr while he had a house built, costing 100m
money to burn from a 32yr old man worth 3.5 billion

 :-/

some people born lucky..