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I used to work for a charity that had 160 howden’s kitchens - and we bought and fitted at least 15 big kitchens per year. they got better over time and stood up to being bashed around a lot.
It all depends on how well your builder knows the local depot. The listed prices are way over what you should end up paying. They do lots of handy inclusive adaptations that work pretty well for the mainstream market.
New CEO recently and a little downturn in profits so I think they might be trying to up their competitiveness a little.
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We've got a Howden's kitchen. Happy with it, quality seems good, wasn't too expensive.
The obvious problem is having to buy it through a trade. OK if you've got a friendly builder, but they are very opaque on pricing and quotes seem to vary constantly based on whim from what I've read.
I didn't know this when we got ours but I don't think we got ripped off.
I'm considering them for our next place as the cabinets come pre-built which is a bonus.
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I have experience of fitting both
Quality wise I have had many more issues with Wren than Howdens. You also have the added headache (from a fitters perspective) that once you have identified an issue you have to wait for a replacement, with Howdens you just take it to your local depot and sort out the return on the way in the following morning. On one or two occasions the defective part from Wren has been replaced with another defective part multiple times which was a major arse ache for me and my clients.
Overall I would go with Howdens. But if there is a style you like from wren it will still be good there just may be some more bumps along the way.
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We're looking at getting out kitchen re done. Definitely not going down the laminate/granite/wood wormhole but more interested if anyone has had good or bad experiences with Howdens Vs Wren. I think with Wren more about getting a decent fitter so this is a price and quality aimed question.