Kitchen's Kitchen

Not scrimping on tiles. Not quite going for ridiculous Victorian ones where the patterns are a mosaic of many smaller tiles, but am looking at good quality encaustic tiles.

£10-15k on builder.

Not quite sure it's too much TBH, it includes the other trades... what they've got to do (incomplete list off the top of my head):

• Remove existing tiles
  
• Remove existing cabinets
  
• Remove and dispose of all appliances
  
• Remove gas boiler
  
• Create new hole in the external wall for flue
  
• Fill in old flue hole
  
• New fuse box
  
• New electric wires across length of house (probably through ceiling, but chased at both ends)
  
• New electric ring in the kitchen (replace all electrics)
  
• New ceiling light fixtures
  
• New floor tiles
  
• Remove radiator
  
• Install new radiator
  
• Install new boiler
  
• Install plumbing to all appliance points
  
• Install all electric sockets and points
  
• New floor tiling to wall
  
• Clean up ceiling
  
• Clean up walls
  
• Paint ceiling
  
• Paint walls
  
  

The stretch £5k is restorative work on floor boards that are around the edges of the room and today hidden by cabinets and appliances. This is depending on level of damage and what they find - based on the existing job only being "tiled to visible area" rather than "tiled to wall".

Given that list... I think electrics would notch up a couple of grand, as would gas/plumbing, tiling £500 - £1k, painting in the same ball park... suddenly the building work isn't looking excessive and given that I'm not going to have my kitchen whilst this work is ongoing, and will lose the boiler for a day or two too... having 1 contractor own the whole thing seems semi-sane.