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Thanks very much for your analysis. I've never had any work done here other than spot stuff or mates hanging sliding doors or whatever so I've no idea when it comes to something of this scale.
The water setup is a mess. We used to have an immersion heater and cold water tank in a cupboard and that was replaced with an electric unit and now for some reason we have two water meters (neither of which Thames Water have the IDs for matching our house but that's another issue). So, I wanted to remove all the piping in the cupboard, remove a water meter and have it all contained within the sink cupboard which would be to the right of the washing machine. Because of the limited room they my have to sink the pipes into the wall or floor perhaps but I'm not really sure what's likely to be involved. I think they're also talking about using another contractor for that bit so they're likely adding markup.
We have not picked a replacement water heater unit yet, so there's another £xxx to add to the bill.
We don't have an extractor currently, so that needs to be new and the ducting will go from the oven through or over a side cupboard and probably out an existing wall vent (or maybe new wall vent but I doubt it).
Kitchen is maybe 3m x 2m or something. It's pretty small aka FUCKING TINY by Aussie standards.
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I had a small kitchen done by Wren so overpaid but it was financed and no trade management for me and it came in about 10-11k but that includes expensive electrical goods which I think were nearly 3k, decent tiling plus some extractor ductwork, upgraded the electrics and moved the mains/waste.
Units were gloss grey and not the cheap vinyl ones.
I did the painting and skirting.You can do yours cheaper but depends how much you want to organise or do yourself.
I would probably do the next one differently as I now know a few trades I can rely on and have better DIY skills but that depends on how busy I am at the time and our budget.
Mr_Smyth
If you managed the trades separately it would be cheaper. That price probably includes 20% on top of everything for their time running around (but they likely apply it to things that take no running around as well). For a normal flat with a normal kitchen I would keep looking for alternate quotes.