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The new kitchen looks great! Nice work.
Just a question. Does anyone know how the IKEA kitchens compare to the Flatpax ones sold at Bunnings --> www.flatpax.com.au, in terms of price and quality?
Regards,
Ozi
Wow, the kitchen looks great.
my question is how did you install the overhead cupboards? what equipment do you need? was it easy to do by yourself?
$2,500 is pretty good but the canibets are quite pricey...that just doesn't sound right. I'd need to pay $600+ just for 2 of the 110 X 55cm horizontal cuboards with the glass doors.
Hi,
Being a very non handy type of the person, i will be interested in how did you assemble it...
I have assembled a bed and tall boy from IKEA though but anything more i think i will nedd some help with....
thanks-
If the kitchen cost $2.5k, how long did it take you to install it? can it be done in a day? does ikea have professional installers that they can recommend? how much would 1 day cost? if it's another $1k for installation, I think that's quite alright too.
$90 X 14 cabinets = $1260
Hope that helps.
Cheers.
JumpinJack,
Is this for an IP or a PPOR?
If it's an IP did you fix it to sell it or to rent it out?
Cheers
Can I ask a question?
You note that IKEA at the basic level was the cheapest and further up would not be, but would not the other suppliers also up thier price for glass, timber top, etc... Or are they cheaper in high end materials.
Thanks, Peter 14.7
We searched both Ikea and flatpax and ended up going with a Flatpax kitchen. The reason being that we liked the "Abstract" doors at Ikea (white vinyl gloss look) - and those were 3 times the price of the flatpax White Gloss doors. If you went for just the basic Ikea doors, the price would decrease dramatically I'm sure. In terms of quality, can't tell you yet - still installing them, but they seem Ok. In terms of easiness to install - so far so good, Geoff was able to put them all together by himself over a couple of days (amazing!!). Will post some pics when it's finished.
what we do to put in the overhead cupboards is nail a small spare piece of level timber (leave the nail sticking out for easy removal), so that the top of the timber piece is where the bottom of the cupboard would be. the cupboard then sits on this piece of timber while i strain my muscles to hold the cupboard flush against the wall while hubby checks it's level then screws it on with the drill.
seems to work every time - and once the support piece of timber is removed the tiles go over where the nail holes were.
The new kitchen looks great! Nice work.
Just a question. Does anyone know how the IKEA kitchens compare to the Flatpax ones sold at Bunnings --> www.flatpax.com.au, in terms of price and quality?
Regards,
Ozi
I purchases the DVD on installing them to see if they are different from IKEA -thye are pretty much the same, the DVD does not show cutting the bench tops only fixing them to the cabinets, they recommend having them cut by a cabinet maker.
Celeste
I purchases the DVD on installing them to see if they are different from IKEA -thye are pretty much the same, the DVD does not show cutting the bench tops only fixing them to the cabinets, they recommend having them cut by a cabinet maker.
Just my 2 cents worth - be careful with the edges of the Ikea kitchen. We boght an ikea benchtop and water has seeped into the edges adn caused the join between the top of the bench and the edging strip to warp even though we were extremely careful in putting the edging strip on. Not sure if it is us or an ikea issue. but keep water away from the joins.