Hi,

Just flew on EasyJet yesterday and whilst flipping through the in-flight magazine, came across an advert for a kitchen company - called 'Kitchens'.  The advert shows a photo of part of a kitchen with solid wood units and a granite worktop.  

To quote the advert (I nicked the mag): "For example, all the real wood cabinets, doors, cornice, pelmet and accessories featured above, including solid granite worktop can be yours for only £1495.00"

Pretty cheap.

As the wife has been starting to ask about a new kitchen lately, I was wondering if any of you have heard of this company. Are they any good, or should they be avoided like the plague?

My main worry, stupidly enough, is that there was no website address on the advert - very strange for any reputable company nowadays.

Cheers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/consumer/tv_and_radio/watchdog/reports/homes/homes_20061010...

Thanks for the warning - sounds like a nice bloke, this Vance!

There's no way of telling whether this is the same company, as the phone number in the advert is an 0871 one, so I can't tell where they're based.

Anyway, if it is a different company, they probably want to change their name sharpish!

Cheers.

CWatters wrote on Oct 29^th, 2006, 10:13am:

It's the old "you get what you pay for" thing, though (all that glisters is not gold?). There is granite and granite, and just like so many things you don't know the difference unless you've compared items side by side (or seen them after they've been in a place for 10 years). Templating is still a skilled job, though. As to granite delivery installation - if you want to do it yourself, then fine, go put your back out. It has often been said that a good joiner can make a even a second rate kitchen fit well and look good - that's still true.

Scrit

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Oh, how  "SHELLfish" of you , does your wife know!!???

and cheap Granite, probably the old MDF with a bit of "granite" type sticky backed plastic on it!!!

TIMBA-WOLF wrote on Oct 29^th, 2006, 11:13pm:


You may not be far off the truth Wolf, you can buy sheets of 10-12mm granite to overlay your existing worktops with and strips to glue to the front edge, only giveaway is the sheets come 1000-1200 long so there are loads of joints, even Screwfixare selling them, hope they use stronger boxes that their usuall ones

They are probably chinese granite which is grey stone with a black resin dye that will start to fade in a couple of years.



JAson

The client had obviously been inspired by Fu -tung Cheng, have a look at the gallery, I really like the combined wood/concrete countertops.

Jason

scotspark wrote on Oct 30^th, 2006, 6:17pm:


Not entirely true, I've fitted a few cheap flat packed kitchens for people I know don't have a lot of money and if all the joints are bonded and sealed even a relatively poor cabinet should easily last 10 years, maybe a lot more.

oooops! nearly forgot, thats the sort of idea W/S... the guys wife was/is a Yank and it has been the IN things for ages over there in Yank land!!!!

Hence the requirement!!