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Kitchen
Secret #16
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 an 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.
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