Kitchen Installation: What to Prepare, What to Expect, What to Snag
PremiumWhat to have ready before your kitchen fitter arrives, how the installation process works day by day, and how to snag the finished kitchen. Labour costs £1,500–£3,500 for a standard extension.
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Your extension has been a building site for months. Bare plaster walls, screed floors, cables poking out of junction boxes. Then a kitchen fitter walks in with a van full of flat-pack carcasses and within a week, you have a room that looks like the CGI render your kitchen designer showed you back in spring. It's the most satisfying week of the entire build.
But that week only goes well if everything behind those walls is exactly where it needs to be. Sockets at the right height. Plumbing stubs behind the right unit. Walls plumb and plastered. Floor level. One thing out of position and your fitter is standing around while you call the electrician back.
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