Kitchen Quotes

Hi Sarah,

You asked for comments/assistance:

Comments: Is there

much in the way of plumbing electrics etc then? as this does sound a lot for that amount of units.

Assistance: That depends on the area you are in?

Hi Magic Hat,

I too spent ages going around and couldn’t decide

what was the best for my money. Had this site recommended to me by

a

friend. It’s a relatively new thing but well worth it in my view. They did my kitchen, my kitchen is a bit bigger

than yours and quotes for mine were ranging from £8000 up to

£17,000! The kitchen I wanted was from the biggest

retailer (Acronym of Made For Idiots) I had a design done there and they quoted me £9,500. These guys did a better design and

when

they worked out the price at MFI it was only £7,600! It’s still on trial and they will do stuff for free to get

the word about. Just tell them I sent you.

The fitting on you quote does seem a bit expensive, i paid a local joiner

£1200 to do mine, went on local people’s recommendations.

I was a bit sneaky in aranging my

fitter. the place where I bought my kitchen from offer a fitting service, they quoted me £1470. they then told me

they

would have to send someone round to do what they call a pre-fit. I wasn’t too happy with this as the salesman wouldn’t tell

me how much the total fit would be. After sitting

there for two hours while this salesmen tried to tell me what was

best for my room, i wasn’t in a great mood! The salesman then, to get a sale, said that if the guys comes around,

does the prefit and it works out to be too much I can cancel the fit and get my own fitter. I suddenly got a bit

excited at this as I could use their expertise to my own benefit. I

put down my 10% fully refundable deposit and left

with a smile on my face. The fitter guy then came round and did a great job, told me everything I needed to do extra, left me

a list

and a quote……….of an extra £800! He was a really nice guy so I was honest with him and said I probably

wouldn’t go for the fit because it was a bit pricey. He then said its ok

he gets £50 anyway for coming out and most

people dont go ahead anyway!!!! I thenwent through the free paper ringing around and got a few to come and give me quotes.

Using the MFI

fitters notes I judged each fitter’s knowledge and skills accordinglyand chose two. One of them agreed

to let me see his last work which was luckily a kitchen, the owners of the

kitchen were happy to tell me he was great

and when I saw their kitchen I was convinced. I was going to go back and just cancel the fit and just have the kitchen until a

friend

mentioned quiet. They did a better design, i did get it done for free but it would of been the best £150 i’ve

ever spent. I then took the quote they’d done for me back to the

salesman, he cancelled my original order and put

through my new one and now I have a stunning kitchen. And money left for my next project.

A little dishonest of me with

MFI but looking at it, they we going to charge me a total of £10,300! For the same kitchen, even ordered from the same

annoying salesman, through quiet

and fitted by a local excellent tradesman set me back only £8,800! A massive

saving.

Hi lkj,

I paid £1200 for the fitting, roughly broken down it was 19

units, the were ready built up so he charged me £40 per unit to fit them. He charged me £75 to fit my gas hob he charged me

£150 for plumbing in my dishwasher and also moving my sink pipes and about £200 for building a special wine rack come

bookcase as part of my design. I got my bro in law to do my

electrics as he is a qualified electrician, the fitter

would have charged me about an extra £250 to do it but my sis’s hubby only cost me a crate of fosters! He put in some extra

sockets plus fuse spurs for my appliances. Had no structural work to do, kitchen was quite straight forward rip out

and replace. Haven’t done the floor yet, haven’t decided what to

go for, Mrs Digijon is a fussy one

Broken down it cost:

Kitchen – £7,600
Fitting – £1,200

(I was lucky enough to get quiet to

do the design for free, did give them £50 as they helped so much, and i also saved £250 on the electrics)

The cost of

doing it the normal way:

Kitchen and fitting through mfi – £10,300

Hi T,

The company is based in the

midlands but it does do work all over the country. The company itself is run by a guy that used to work for a large kitchen

company but got fed up with

being dishonest to customers and not giving them the best service. He left and set up on

his own. The Quiet idea is a great one, i must have told about 50 people about it in only a

fortnight because i’m

ever so greatful! I really hope it goes along way because thinking about it people do get a bit of a rough deal when it comes

to buying a kitchen. It’s the

norm to go out and sit with a salesguy for hours for him to tell you whats best then

you believe him and part with your cash. It does throw up a couple of questions……how can a

comission based

salesguy have your best intrests in hand when he’s working for a company that has to make a profit? Obvious if you think

about it. I do accept that smaller outlets do

give you a good service but you do pay a premium for that service, one

such outlet in Solihull wanted to charge me £16,000 and Quiet’s design was still better.

The not crossing a salesman

thing is great because you get none of that sales talk rubbish. What i did was went to see the guy at mfi then found out about

quiet from a guy who they’d

helped, who also been harping on about them constantly! I sent my plans to them, they

came up with a design after they asked me some questions, some strange ones but it got the job

done. Then a day later

i got an e-mail through with a picture and I was amazed. Once i’d approved the picture with mrs digi (who loved it straight

away

Digijon

Hi tkd,

I did ask them about the home

measure thing and I think there looking into it. At the moment though it is just web based. I have phoned Kevin (the owner)

this afternoon and he seemed

pleased that i’ve been making recommendations. He said he’d wondered why he’d had 16

e-mails already and he hasn’t told anyone! The culprit has been found! He’s just passing the

stuff onto his new

design graduates, but he is like the Gordon Ramsey of the kitchen world, everything goes through him before it goes out!

They’ve got a next-day turnaround at the

moment to test out there capacities and work the staff in preperation. It’s

my exageration with the prices I think! They’ve stop the free thing though now but are doing it half

price at the

moment so get in there! Regarding the price, they are trying to appeal to all markets and dont want to make the service only

available to people spending big bucks. For

example you don’t mind spending out £100 if you budget is three grand but

if they offered normal prices of say £3-400 which is what most companies, i’m told, would charge then

everyone would

not be able to benefit. He did say the service will probably be released towards the end of April as there waiting for some

name problems with Quiet or something, plus

there having all the major kitchen companies sponsor them on the site, one

such company has already offered a substanstial sum he said to buy them!

I’ve been told not to give the number out on

the forum for obvious reasons, just send an e-mail with your name and number and someone will get back to you. He said the

contact form

will be running on the website soon, and he’s also now got a form they’ll send out with a guide as soon

as you send an e-mail.

I haven’t told him what i’ve said on this site and havent told him the name as i’m sure he’s

telling me stuff in confidence but he’ll thank me in the long-run! I feel proud that

i’m one of the first ever to

experience this!

He’s a pretty

young guy but he’s really got his head screwed on and

he’s on to a big winner with this. What he can do with a room

is quite amazing. The company themselves are fairly new, i know he’s been setting it up since Christmas, but he’s had

to get the training right. He does own their parent company, but they deal with big projects like massive apartment

blocks, they design the interiors for those and provide the

drawings when the building people try to sell the flats

before they are built, another great idea……..Richard Branson watch out!

In perspective £100 is nothing when you

think about how painful it is having to sit through listening to pushy salesmen who don’t have a clue! You should see the

movie style

extension stuff they do. They can take a picture of your house then show you what it would look like after

the extension, they even give you a dvd so you can walk around the inside

rooms…….I thought i was up with

technology but that blew my brain!