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Kitchen Worktop replacement?

  • 27-03-2014 8:38am
    #1
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭


    Just wondering if this is a massive job.......or relatively easy?

    To nclrify I wouldn' have the skills to do it myself, just looking for a rogh idea and any thoughts on this from anyone who's done it? I'm hopefully going to upcycle through painting the kitchen units and thought this would be a good time to change the worktop. So the uniuts will stay and I may change the worktop, if it's not prohibitively expensive.

    Any thoughts/feedback/suggestions appreciated.


Comments

  • #2
    CarrickMcJoe
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    A good carpenter will do that for you.


  • #3
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    CarrickMcJoe wrote: »
    A good carpenter will do that for you.

    Ta!

    Any idea if it's an expensive/inexpensive job though? Average sized kitchen in Average sized 3 bed semi for context


  • #4
    Qwerty?
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭Qwerty?


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    Ta!

    Any idea if it's an expensive/inexpensive job though? Average sized kitchen in Average sized 3 bed semi for context

    Measure the length of the work top and maybe stick up a picture to get a better idea of a price. Also is the worktop a single length or is it L or U shaped, this will bump the price up a fair bit.


  • #5
    shawnee
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    Had units painted and worktop replaced and it looks great. Replacement of worktop it pretty straight forward. It is a help if the carpenter can do a little bit of electric and plumbing as these may need to be tweeked. Overall including the electric and plumbing it only takes a few hours to replace and makes a huge change. Check out the worktops available in wholesalers and for my kitchen it cost around 230 for a better than average one. Three coats of paint and the kitchen looks great.


  • #6
    muddle84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,769 ✭✭✭muddle84


    Sorry to hijack here but I'm in a similar boat myself and am wondering how hard can it be? I would like to give a go myself but would like to know more about whats involved before i do. So for fitting a worktop is it just as simple as cutting it to length? I imagine its just held in place with l brackets of some description underneath???


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