Cooke and Lewis fit

[Stretch]

Well given all they've got else to offer is their IT range which has been conveniently renamed ShIT by most fitters I suppose they had to come up with something which sounds as though it might have been supplied by John Lewis instead - with an equally ridiculous price tag..

It just goes to show that some people will buy a kitchen thinking that they have the security of a national company to fall back on when things go tits up. And that's despite the fact that their kitchen was designed by a fat tattooed 19 year old girl with far too many facial piercings and a failed GSCE in media studies or something equally irrelevant.

Thankfully, most B&Q kitchens have a life expectancy of around 5 years so they soon get replaced with something more substantial.

[Mbcarpentry]

I asked the client why they had gone with B&Q and had they shopped around, they said they had looked at magnet, Howdens, wren and ornida and had picked a kitchen from Howdens when they saw the Cooke and Lewis advertised on TV and thought it looked good! I think there money would have been better spent at Howdens although there not the best I think there kitchens are superior to the Cooke and Lewis from what I've seen.

[chippy1970]

The hardware on them is absolute crap. Luckily Ive never fitted one but a friend asked if they were any good as he was thinking of getting a cooke & lewis kitchen. I went into B&Q had a quick look and all I could think was that they wouldnt last long.

[Mbcarpentry]

Yeah i wouldn't recommend the Cooke and Lewis to anyone might look nice in the brochure but poor in reality, don't get me wrong it will look nice when it is completed but I can imagine it will not do well over time, and as you say Chippy the hardware is crap!

[chippy1970]

I noticed a neighbor has just had a Wren kitchen delivered today lol poor sods dont know what theyre in for lol

[Mbcarpentry]

Lol I fitted one a few months back makes me appreciate the Cooke and Lewis I'm doing now

[Mbcarpentry]

Finished up as far as I could with his one today ended up switching the dryer and 600mm base to get over the problem with the heating pipework, and had to leave the cornice/pelmet off to the l/h side as the client now wants a curved wall unit next to 600 unit and the top door from the tall oven housing was missing but apart from those and the plinths which will go on once the floor is tiled it's done
   

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The handles look nice enough but you can tell there chat when you handle them and the fixing bolts were a joke heads must have snapped off about 10 of them when I tightened them up but at least it's done and the client seems very happy with what they got so that's what Clints.
   

[snezza]

What goes between the top of the Oven and the bottom of the missing door....????

Do Cooke & Lewis do a 900mm high Curved wall unit???

[Mbcarpentry]

Not to sure Snezza? the oven only turned up this afternoon as the client had sent a single oven back as they had decided to go with a double oven so I just built the housing up to suit a 900mm double oven, they did not send the replacement door to go with the new oven, I think i'l either have to put a down stand in under the support shelf Or remove the shelf and fix it in lower on kd blocks/bearer

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According to the client they had been in touch with B&Q and had been told a 900mm curved wall unit was available, if they do have one I bet it will not be cheap!