Kitchens..... Schreiber and Homebase....

[Stephen]

Thanks for the heads up. we did not go with Homebase and Shreiber in the end .....

[pjc]

with Homebase and Schreiber.

Any joy now?I'm just about to order the Homebase/Schrieber combination.

[polygonum]

Given the message you quite, why?

[Brian Gaff]

Well, maybe he thinks the other person just had the wrong shape of room for it?

Brian

[Tim Watts]

£20k ???

My kitchen cost less than that including fitting the units and worktop and the units are custom made out of yellow pine with zero MDF or chip.

Just goes to show...

[sm_jamieson]

s with Homebase and Schreiber.

Note its all just branding. Home Retail Group own Argos and Homebase, and t hey own the Schreiber brand which they can stamp on anything they want. At least the brand has more history than the B&Q made-up Cooke & Lewis brand ( for which an advertising company won an award !) Simon.

[sm_jamieson]

es with Homebase and Schreiber.

I hope they waited for the "sale" to come around. My kitchen cost about 4 grand including appliances. So if someone has a kit chen 5 times the size of mine, I suppose it would cost 20 grand ! Good point about custom stuff often being cheaper than you think though. Simon.

[Tim Watts]

It still wasn't cheap - not like as you say, waiting for a sale.

We made the decision to pay over the odds for solid wood as we expect this to outlive us, so in effect I can guarantee we would have gone through 2-3 regular kitchens in the next few decades - as it can be repainted and if necessary repaired if it gets tired or damaged.

So assume we live that long, it should factor out about the same.

[Capitol]

The Homebase stuff I looked at had very thin shelves which would not take our loadings. Also they used upward opening doors which most women can't reach. Very pretty but crap.

[andrew]

replying to Stephen, andrew wrote: am fitting a schreiber kitchen now and the cabinet instructions are very poor indeed and non existent in some cases.

[Not happy]

replying to Stephen, Not happy wrote: I am in the process of having the schreiber kitch installed. Whatever you do dont i am still into getting it done for the last 12 months .still incomplete 5 deliveries of wrong items broken items missing items its a damn nightmare slap happy approach with total incompetance actual installation started may 1st and is still not finished but kitchen is functional

[Robert Barnes]

replying to Stephen, Robert Barnes wrote: Had issues with the newton abbott homebase, as in the kitchen designer who can't copy a hand drawn plan & lost 100mm. They were told there would be a long delay between the purchase & the deivery... but still had phone calls about 'when can we deliver it'. Also they didn't order enough back stand for the quartz worktops. Also difficult to get hold of as the kitchen 'expert' isn't working or in today/ on holiday

[Brian Gaff]

Something must be wrong this thread is only a few years old ie 2014. The usual posts from this broken interface to usenet I saw was written by Fred Flintstone. Brian