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.planning my Kitchen. Has anyone use this bunch?
Planning the Kitchen is great and addictive. I might change what I'd do for a living.
What do you think
.planning my Kitchen. Has anyone use this bunch?
Planning the Kitchen is great and addictive. I might change what I'd do for a living.
What do you think
We bought our utility room units from them. They get very good reviews and are very good value compared to the other big suppliers. The units were noticeably inferior to our kitchen, but that was a higher end German company, so not really comparable.
We got a price off them and it was a good price, samples were excellent and they go into a lot of detail about the finishing spec. Howdens matched the price so I went with them in the end, easier to resolve any probs locally.
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They are normally pre-assembled.
Yes, assembled.
I have a DIYK kitchen, it's good quality, I had painted wood fronts and the finish is excellent.
Delivery was late 9pm Friday evening and the first item out was dropped.
I inspected and made a ticket complaint... I had replacement item(s) a week later.
Remember these are made to your spec, and ready assembled... they don't have units sat around.
Would I use them again, yes, and it was half the price of Howdens.
Delivery was late 9pm Friday evening and the first item out was dropped.
I inspected and made a ticket complaint... I had replacement item(s) a week later.
Remember these are made to your spec, and ready assembled... they don't have units sat around.
Would I use them again, yes, and it was half the price of Howdens.
I used the Ikea one. My wife always fills everything up and these are unique as far as I know
She has filled up several of them. Unlike cupboards everything in them is easy to get at and spacing adjustable. On one I have some butted together and added handles. There are 3 in that one all full up now.Ikea do tend to be unique. No service void at back of units, deeper than usual base units, 600 rather than 575mm, requiring a 635mm worktop to give any overhang over the doors. I'm guessing whoever cut the tops went wrong setting the jig for the unusual sizes hence the misaligned mitre joint in the picture.
I've never known anyone, myself included, who having fitted an Ikea kitchen, would ever consider installing another one.
I have the Blum internal drawers
tandem I think they are
there is a wide range of dividers and other accessories
e.g. you can fit one out to hold plates and other crockery
or a shallow one for cutlery
nothing gets lost at the back
you can use them inside pan drawers too.
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Looks good
I'd do it again but as I use the cooking stuff from time to time part hobson's choice.
I know my wife and I'd hate poking about in normal cupboards. She has filled the lot up.Services - not really a problem. There is room low down at the back. Mine come down in a corner boxed in and run from there. Gas and water. Square walls etc can be a problem especially on floor standing so rather than a rail it's better to use brackets.
I needed one dead vertical wall where what is left of an internal wall is so created it. Ikea suggest leaving a certain amount of space and using a scribed filler for that sort of thing. In my case that would have messed up the layout.Some use brackets on the wall cabinets as well but I've found the rail is ok. Some packing may be needed but even with a bit of dish in the wall it's worked out.There is some scope for worktop overhang using Ikea worktops, Not much though - more sticking out a little past the doors. Some can be lost scribing to walls.
The joint - it's ok not glued and bolted when I took the shot. Glad I found out how a kitchen fitter use the jigs though. I did a U and was bugged about walls being out of square. I would knock Ikea on 2 points. Stupidly deep wall cupboard and pan drawers are rather deep as well. I may ditch one and fit 2 shallower drawers. I toyed with the idea of cutting the depth of the wall cupboards down but didn't. Ikea say worktop lights are good idea due to this but I have fitted a number of ceiling lights more or less directly over head from where people will stand and shadows haven't been a problem.
As an old house and crap work done for various reasons on some plaster work I'd take the lot off next time rather than trying to sort it out before fitting. If I was lucky enough to get a good plasterer in though that aspect would have taken a lot less time. Where the original plaster hadn't been worked on it was fine.
LOL I still haven't done the tiling. Decided to have a break - that is getting a bit too long now really.
All in all with floor levelling and other bits and pieces such as the electrics it's a lot of work especially if the kitchen needs to remain usable throughout. On the worktops I needed a router and saw update anyway. Otherwise that part is probably best left to a professional. but the rest still needs to be correctly positioned etc.
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I'd do it again but as I use the cooking stuff from time to time part hobson's choice.
We don't do that now that the kids are here...
