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Buying a used kitchen
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They are amazing, for the good reason that they will rarely just fit in place, and at best need botching. .
It all depends if you have the know-how to make it fit your kitchen.
Not bought one but sold my old one. £250 for the lot. It was either that or run it all to the dump.
Unless you have a nice square/rectangular room, I would recommend buying a much larger used kitchen than you actually need so that you can play around with the configurations and get everything to fit.
Like kitchen Tetris
Like kitchen Tetris
Does it come with a 'used' house wife?
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Getting it out is the issue. It'll be stuck and screwed in and there will be casualties, particularly where things are custom fitted to the room and that room isn't your room. I did this once and I took out a huge kitchen from a large house and had the pick of the units that made it without disintegrating and all the best fronts which I resprayed. Got new worktops etc.
Talking of worktops, they may look transferable but they are often joined with serious glue and breaking them apart can destroy them if you were after preserving jig cut corners. Also unless you are going for the same layout, you may find you have to junk them because things just don't match up in your space. Be prepared to lose 30% of it in the rip out.
It really depends on the kitchen, if it's fitted similar to yours now and you can get it for a good deal then go for it but if it not, you might end up like this below
Talking of worktops, they may look transferable but they are often joined with serious glue and breaking them apart can destroy them if you were after preserving jig cut corners. Also unless you are going for the same layout, you may find you have to junk them because things just don't match up in your space. Be prepared to lose 30% of it in the rip out.
It really depends on the kitchen, if it's fitted similar to yours now and you can get it for a good deal then go for it but if it not, you might end up like this below
check 100% what is involved and you are responsible for
words like "buyer removes "may be turn up with a luton van and take it from the garden
up to its still plumbed in and you have to remove and repair damage caused in the process
words like "buyer removes "may be turn up with a luton van and take it from the garden
up to its still plumbed in and you have to remove and repair damage caused in the process
Yeah. My buyer looked at my kitchen first and said he would come back and take it out. I said okay but I had it all out ready for him when he came - I didn’t want him just ripping stuff out and possibly causing damage.
I got £250 for the lot including the oven, hob, fridge and extractor which just about covered the cost of the same taps for the new kitchen but in brushed brass. TBH, it would have been a lot easier to just smash the lot out rather than carefully remove it but then I would have had to get a skip to dispose of it and it would have been a shame to send it to landfill.
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Matey got a bargain. Real wood doors that can be cleaned up and resprayed are usually the most valuable bit of a used kitchen. Carcasses can be repaired/replaced with too much cost or trouble.
Lots of people dump working appliances because 'it doesn't match the new kitchen'
Keeps them on the treadmill/wife happy.
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