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Kitchen Supply | Is everything included in your new kitchen? Probably not.
Kitchen
supply companies advertise that everything will be hassle-free and they’ll do
everything. Although ‘everything’ should mean the same to everyone, a lot of companies manage to interpret it as meaning ‘we do slightly more than a
DIY store’
Remember
before you even consider inviting a kitchen designer round to your house to make
a list of everything you require… from the amount of storage space to the
position of the last electricity point.
If
a kitchen company won’t do a part of your kitchen fitting then that’s fine – as
long as you know before inviting the designer round. A lot of companies also
have self-employed fitters. This means that they have a definitive set of
responsibilities on behalf of the kitchen supply company – and the kitchen
company has to make this list of responsibilities quite simple in order to
ensure that the task is completed.
It’s
therefore quite common for such companies to remove themselves from the
responsibility of being in charge of ‘peripheral’ tasks in the kitchen fitting
process such as tiling and moving existing electrical points that may be in the
way.
A
kitchen designer commonly has to ‘work around’ some existing electrical fixings
such as central heating points and isolation switches. The designer knows that
his own kitchen supply company either charges too much to move such items or
doesn’t entertain the possibility of moving them at all. This means that
in this scenario, the designer will sell the reasoning to the
customer to keep the design in the present format. He will probably say that
he’s considered other options and give reasons for them not being so effective.
The real reason is that should the customer wish to change the kitchen design, then
because this would result in the necessary moving of existing central
heating control. The designer would therefore have less of a chance of
being able to hit the customer’s budget and less of a chance of converting the
sale.
Another
‘bug bare’ is lighting. If it isn’t mentioned during the presentation, then
don’t assume that the wall units will have some form of lighting
underneath them –
If
you want to fit additional lighting in the kitchen it might be worthwhile to
wait until fitters are actually fitting and offer them a little extra cash to
fit your lights. Just remember to check that everything’s included
before you sign.
