Reasonably priced quality kitchens
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Comments (2)Perfect, just the kind of thing I'm looking for! Many thanks....See MoreAre ikea kitchens good quality?
Comments (24)KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF of IKEA kitchens!!! 1.5 years construction site, 10 vacation days wasted, 4 assembly appointments, 2 planning appointments, 2 surveying appointments, broken electrical appliances, countless emails and telephone calls ... Kitchen still not free of defects, zero service, zero compensation, just trouble !!! I'm moving out of my apartment after just two years - IKEA (https://www.ikea.com/de/de/store/muenchen_eching/) still has not managed to finish the kitchen. I've lived here until the very end in a kitchen construction site with broken, blended worktops, falling out stove, gaps in the cabinets, broken electrical appliances and leaking sinks! In addition, I remain with € 300 uncompensated TV repair costs, because during assembly of the defective stove AND defective oven about 5x the fuse popped out, whereupon the TV mainboard was fried. I was always promised compensation during the 1.5 years until I actually wanted to claim it. For example, the clerk Ms. Sandra H. (customer service IKEA Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Eching) offered the option to withdraw from the purchase contract in an email pledged for defect removal costs of € 1,400, i.e. 38% of the purchase price (‘Of course you are also free to withdraw from the complete purchase contract." Email of Sandra H. from 19.09.18). When I wanted to take this a week later, the resignation was again denied ("This is smaller (legally ‘minor’) deviation from the agreed condition, which is why your client has no right of withdrawal and regarding a purchase price reduction , we consider here a reduction of 5% of the purchase price of the kitchen for appropriate.’ Email of Sandra H. from 27.09.18). The € 1,400 costs estimated by IKEA itself for defect removal are suddenly ‘legally minor’?!?! This customer-devaluing attrition strategy from IKEA customer service is absolutely inappropriate! In the meantime I have given up even with a lawyer involved, because I have to hand over the apartment to the new tenant - I have refused the offered 91 € impairment and remain on my kitchen defects and repair costs. I did not mention many annoying details in this summary. Should anyone still want to buy an IKEA kitchen at IKEA, here is my review of the appointment / assembly process, which she/he should plan with: - 11.05.2017 1.surveying appointment at home: normal - 15.05.2017 1.planing apptmt at IKEA: normal - 12.06.2017 1.installation apptmt at home: Planning error (measures copied incorrectly), broken kitchen appliances, broken TV, cabinet gaps, no worktop - 13.06.2017 2.planing apptmt at IKEA: complete replaning due to 40cm length planing error - 28.06.2017 2.installation apptmt: incorrect parts delivery, scratched, incorrectly cut worktop, broken rear wall - 04.07.2017 2.surveying apptmt: new measurement for worktop - 13.11.2017 3.installation apptmt: worktop supplied by 5cm too narrow - 02.06.2018 4.installation apptmt: worktop supplied by 2cm too wide & 2cm too short - about 12 repetitive hotline calls (always longer than 30min) including waiting loop - 10 WASTE HOLIDAYS - 26 Email pure for the coordination of the kitchen installation - 43 Email with IKEA "customer service" for the misclaimed "claim settlement" - 300 € collateral damage - Zero compensation (91 € were offered to me, which I refused)...See Moreis this a reasonable quote to renovate kitchen dinner?
Comments (16)We were planning a kitchen reno 1.5 years ago. We needed to knock down a load-bearing wall between kitchen and dining room, built over a side door, remove all old flooring and install new laminate and kitchen units. The first quote a mate gave us was for £25k. Two others quoted £10k but were impossible to get hold off. Apparently, our project was too small for them. Finally we found a fab local family, who quoted us £7.5k for everything excluding laminated floors&kitchen install. We were to hire a carpenter separately and found a decent one which was charging £1.5k for kitchen installation and £1k (I think) for laminated floors....See MoreAre Nobilia kitchens good quality?
Comments (2)They're at the cheap end of german carcase manufacturing and are a high volume producer and equivalent to howdens or wickes(rigid) cabinets but with a few differences. Made from high density melamine faced chipboard that's 16mm, with a thicker front edge tape (cheap uk cabs have a thin 0.4mm edge tape) and good quality drawers and hinges, finish of cabinets and edging is to a good standard, all white internals (so no choice of matching to doors unless white) in the uk most carcases are offered in 5 colours and independants may have a choice of over a 100 colours and woodgrains, limited choice of door styles and with many doors made of a cut and edged melamine faced chipboard, a 2mm back panel thats stapled into a groove is rubbish IMO, the back panel is so important to the structural rigidity of a cabinet, if you have a flimsy panel thats been fitted in a slot then stapled the cabinet might be out of square before you start, an 18mm panel thats been cut square and kd blocked and screwed into a carcase (no groove required) will keep the cabinet square, overtime a 2mm panel will cup (especially on larders) and may pop out of the slots and come away (I used to do remedials for this for a well known national kitchen company). Personally I'd shop around and speak to some local independants who supply 18mm carcases in a wide range of colours, opt for Blum soft close hinges and drawers (as the germans do) and depending on the door style that you're looking at I'm sure that they'll have something similar and they will be able to supply to the same kitchen design, some door companies have even more door sizes to choose from so you don't end up with large unsightly fillers. Even diy kitchens is limited to their door sizes compared to other manufacturers, ie their single oven towers have an unsightly filler over the oven where as other manufacturers have a 650 tall door, they also don't offer 715x196 and 715x546 wide doors for example....See More
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