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  • Morning kids. I got great advice on how to sort out my shower when I posted here last, so I'm hoping to get the same sort of advice for my kitchen.

    I moved in a year ago and the place had clearly been let out to uncaring tenants for many years - caked in grease, hadn't been updated since the 80s, rat shit everywhere. Anyway we cleaned it up and got it functional but we really need to tear everything out and start again, from cupboards to tiling, the lot.

    I'm on a very limited budget - I could probably chuck another four grand on my credit card but not much more. Do you guys have any ideas how I can do this?

  • How handy are you? You can easily get all the stuff for that money (units, appliances, some kind of worktop etc) but doing any gas/electrics will cost. As will getting anyone in to fit the stuff if you're not confident? I tried to do a lot of ours for that reason but it took me a long time and in the end needed someone as the disruption was too much.

  • Not very unfortunately. There's some stuff I can do, I can probably install cupboards and the like, and I'm not such a bad painter - it's how we saved money on the bathroom, I got the professionals to do the skilled work and I did the grunt stuff.

    But a kitchen is so much more complicated - it needs a redesign (we have two corners of dead space I'd need to start using, and we need to have an extractor fan fitted) so I think I'd need a fitter who can project manage too. I imagine this is going to be a bit of a beast of a job right?

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