Wren Kitchens.........

Any good or bad experiences to share with Wren kitchens anyone?

 

Is this our new Austrian midfielder?

 

I've an aversion to companies who place huge efforts to make the sales process slick but pressured and sadly that was my experience with the initial dialogue with Wren.

We ended up spending way more with a small local company that were much more customer focused. Magnet were pretty decent and I've heard a lot of good things about Howdens generally, but they insist you have one of their approved fitters signed up before they even talk prices, so I can't say much more than the quality was decent and the guy we spoke to was pretty helpful.

 

Expensive, I went to kitchen’s Direct at South Kirby, got better quality units much cheaper, you just need someone to fit them for you.

 

We used Howdens they contract fitters and had it installed about 8yrs ago.Had no trouble whatsoever.

 

Just seen his car near the box office, WR3N 1

 

Did they come to do a mesure up or was it when you went to a showroom? We’re still online browsing at the moment but will shortly be looking at having hook visits, I can’t stand pushy sales people either

 

if you're local go no further than Ward Green Kitchens.
Superb team of craftsmen.

 

We didn't get far with Wren at all. They basically refused to book an appointment unless we guaranteed we'd order with them the day of the appointment. That was before seeing the quality or style of their kitchens or knowing a ballpark price.

With magnet and howdens we went to visit them at their showrooms (this was about 3 ish years ago now) with architect drawings and dimensions (we were having an extension built so couldn't have an onsite visit at the time and they were both set up to show pretty lifelike CAD drawings). I'd guess you'd catch their January sales.

We ended up going with a local guy who installed a pretty high end kitchen and he repeatedly visited site to ensure the levels were right as the extension came together.

So I'd hope most kitchen companies would have some sort of site visit to agree the measurements before they finally installed, but I don't know for sure. They may all have some FAQs on their websites or a webchat to ask such questions.

 

Got ours last year at DIY Kitchens South Kirkby. Possibly the same as Kitchens Direct mentioned above as once again you need your own fitter.

Units come assembled, not flat pack. We were impressed with the quality, although level adjustment on the wall units was fiddly. Me and my mate fitted ours. Got tilers in for the floor and splash backs but pleased with both the results and the cost.

Wren were not cheap and I virtually had to throw them out as they weren't leaving voluntarily without a signature on the order form! No idea on the quality and workmanship but it'd be hard pressed to be better than we've got for about half the money!

 

Yes they are called DIY Kitchens, got the the name slightly wrong. Link belowhttps://www.diy-kitchens.com/kitchens/

 

I got mine from there too.
Top quality units but I fitted them myself.

 

I'd second this - no complaints from me about DIY Kitchens. Not sure about that fitter Dave though

 

We've got a Wren Kitchen. Anytime I tell anyone, they are expecting a follow-up sentence relating to how bad the service/cabinets/installation was. But it's all been fine and would recommend - I may have been lucky.

 

Howdens, it helped that I knew the company that fitted it have an account with em.
Quality kitchen and top notch fitting.

 

Could you not have found this out for yourself pal and look at reviews online

I am fed up of searching for stuff that people could find out themselves

 

We used Howdens couple of years ago.
The person fitting our kitchen was one of their registered fitters so no issues there.
He advised us best option was for us to buy the kitchen through his account.
Howden came out, measured up then we went into showroom where they showed us how it would look in our kitchen on a projector screen, we made some adjustments there and then, all good.
The only negative was when kitchen was fitted we had some stuff left over where they had not adjusted for our changes, those bits came to just over £400.
Took a bit of chasing but we got the money back of them.

 

I have only ever seen poor reviews on Wrens. If you want to support the Conservatives then but Wren because that's what they do.

 

Really good quality but no end of problems parts missing filler pieces or not sent shelves missing from cupboards maybe the fixing packs are not there. Getting replacement sent out for the piece of that they missed is nigh on Impossible at times hired a van to go and pick them up myself because they had no way of getting it to me despite it being their problem. Had their sales people measure up before and measured the kitchen wrong twice this was at two separate houses.

DIY kitchens are good quality and cheap too but you have to do the measuring etc yourself

Nothing wrong with Howdens to be honest but you can have them measure your kitchen and quote you and the price be thousands different depending on which of their registered tradesmen they put it on the account of.

IKEA are surprisingly good for their price and use high quality hinges and fittings.

Wickes and b&q avoid avoid avoid.

 

In an environment where companies can post their own positive reviews online (and many do), some people might want a "word of mouth" recommendation before they invest a large sum of money into something...