As part of bedroom revamp Mrs F wants to order some Schreiber fitted wardrobes and other bits. Cost after various 'discounts' is £1822, but that includes a £631 fitting cost.
Does that sound right (the fitting cost)?
Furniture consists of 4 wardrobes, 2 x 3 drawer bedside cabinets and 1 chest of 5 drawers.
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Two person job for two days ? Sounds reasonable...!
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32 man hours for that??? Seriously?
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They might be hiding the true cost of the discount in the fitting charge....
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>> 32 man hours for that??? Seriously?
Or another view nearly £20/h? To fit wardrobes? Is it that skilled?
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>> >> 32 man hours for that??? Seriously?
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>> Or another view nearly £20/h? To fit wardrobes? Is it that skilled?
To do it right and look tidy? Yes.
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>> To do it right and look tidy? Yes.
Would the standalone units - bedside cabinets and chest of drawers - be relatively straightforward to put together? The Argos Schreiberr page does warn that "Certain aspects of assembly require both specialist tools and intermediate/advanced DIY skills", but I'm guessing that's the wardrobes?
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>> >> >> 32 man hours for that??? Seriously?
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>> >> Or another view nearly £20/h? To fit wardrobes? Is it that skilled?
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>> To do it right and look tidy? Yes.
Well it's just taken 2 of them about 3.5 hours. And it does look right and tidy, as you'd expect for £90/hr :)
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My man 1 day. £200.00
BUT you don't say if there are any other little bits to do like scribing in Cornices, cover fillets etc. Always need a full picture, but for what you describe it a bit like Porlock Hill.
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Thanks CGN, that looks very useful (haven't worked it out yet). And thanks for others' comments.
It almost feels like something I could do myself, but I know that could end in tears :)
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>> Thanks CGN, that looks very useful (haven't worked it out yet).
Should be under £400 rather than over £600 based on that I reckon.
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Cheapskate....About 5 yrs ago SWM wanted new fitted stuff in the master bedroom. We went to an indy in Hazel Grove. They had fitted me mates stuff and made a lovely job of it.
Wardrobes ceiling to floor across a 13 ft wall hiding a chimbley breast, 2 bedside cabinets, bedhead and dressing table. Drawers, shelves and rails inc. a drop down rail for her jackets and skirts......£4500.00.
I could have got a ruddy nice motorbike for that !
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Not all of us retired when your generation did :-) I might not get the pension an benefits but hope to travel.... including Greece ;-) Oops. Two holidays booked for 2015.
Last edited by: rtj70 on Fri 30 Jan 15 at 23:02
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>> Not all of us retired when your generation did :-) I might not get the
>> pension an benefits but hope to travel.... including Greece ;-) Oops. Two holidays booked for
>> 2015.
And you are taking the bedroom furniture with you?
Or have I not been paying attention again?
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>> that includes a £631 fitting cost.
Which is too much if everything goes right. But will turn out to be amazingly cheap if anything goes wrong.
More than anything the fitting service makes it risk free. The thing is to work out whether £1822 is something you are prepared to pay for the completed job. If it is, then I wouldn't worry about how it splits down.
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>> >> that includes a £631 fitting cost.
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>> Which is too much if everything goes right. But will turn out to be amazingly
>> cheap if anything goes wrong.
Yeah good point I s'pose
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>> >> Which is too much if everything goes right. But will turn out to be
>> amazingly
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>> Yeah good point I s'pose
...but could much go wrong with the bedside cabs & chest of drawers? Building/fitting the wardrobes I can understand might be tricky.
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The moment you start something like that you discover that there's no such thing as a right angle, a vertical or a horizontal. Even in a new-looking gaff like ours.
They are all approximate at best and you have to cobble from the start, radically sometimes.
3/4 inch blockboard is good stuff if it hasn't been left outside in the rain. You get it cut square and cobble on that basis, after mature thought.
Herself wants a cupboard in the corner of our small bedroom. It's a bit of a nightmare but I'm working on it. She wants it white too which I don't favour.
Thank God it isn't something muddy outside.
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We had a built-in wardrobe fitted professionally last year.
Quotes from Sharps (after discounts!) were around £2800.
We eventually went to a fairly local firm, Gliderobes - www.gliderobes.co.uk/ (just outside Mansfield) who operate both on a supply only and a supply & fit basis. They have a pretty good online design facility which I used to get rough prices and we then went to their showroom to finalise and look at quality.
Top end system ...
Wardrobe just frontage /doors/tracks = £776.13
Wardrobe with interior = £926.81
Additional paneling floors, back and sides + £150
Fitting (Paid to fitter directly on completion) + £300
Total fully fitted with full carcase would be £1376.81
((I haggled two soft closers FOC )
We opted to have the thing fitted and seeing the relative complexity of the parts we were glad we did! I would say advanced DIY skills may have sufficed, but the fitter made a very good job, with the additional HUGE benefit that he came, before we ordered, to measure the job accurately, thus putting the onus of correct sizing firmly on the suppliers, not me!
The fitting took one whole day and considering that there were two trips from Nottingham to us in Worksop, by the fitter did not seem out of the way.
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The moment you start something like that you discover that there's no such thing as a right angle, a vertical or a horizontal. Even in a new-looking gaff like ours.
Found that out when I was 11. The bedroom ceiling hight was about 3" different from one side of the room to another. Made my dad's efforts to make a wardrobe look fitted a trifle difficult!
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>> Cost after various 'discounts' is £1822, but that includes a £631 fitting cost.
That looks reasonable enough to me, although I would be looking at one or two well regarded local firms before making a decision.
Schreiber furniture is, or certainly was, pretty well put together. We still have one of their free standing wardrobes and a bedside table that we bought in the late 70s.
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Schreiber AFAIK is just a brand and has been for a while - now seems to be "exclusive" to Home Retail (Argos, Homebase etc), I think I might have been MFI before that, but my memory is cloudy - I might be thinking of Hygena which was also MFI.
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We have had either two or three kitchens by Schreiber many moons ago and they were very good.
We looked at Schreiber wardrobes at a big Homebase store in Sheffield, last year and shuddered at the poor quality.
I reckon a good Indy is the way to go.
Last edited by: Roger. on Sat 31 Jan 15 at 17:33
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A lot of the quality brand names of the past have been taken over or sold on and are no longer offer good quality products.
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Fraud, really. Morally at least. The creation of brands or trademarks was about an assurance of what you were getting; if somebody put his name on it then he couldn't afford to diddle you.
Now the reverse applies, and purchased brands are used to sell products of usually lesser quality at a higher price than they merit - the difference being 'brand value'.
Not saying that applies to Schreiber of course - for all I know, it's perfectly OK.
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Several years ago, probably about thirty actually, we fitted out three bedrooms with Hulsta furniture. An entire wall in each room with robes, plus bedside cabinets and overbed shelves. We chose Sen Ash, which has not dated, and was part of my settlement with the ex ex! She kept the outlaws. Three moves later I still have it in two bedrooms, and paid a grand 12 years ago to a joiner friend to dismantle and refit. In the old Edwardian gaff there was headroom to spare, in the modern gaff it had to be cut to fit height wise. It probably costs more to fit than it is worth second hand, but I like it very much. Strange how you get slightly attached to a bit of furniture. Better than some of the rubbish on sale these days, and I can envisage taking it with me on the next move.
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Schreiber bedroom furniture - fitting cost - R.P.
