How Much Does a New Kitchen Cost in Northern Ireland?

A straightforward replacement using budget units, laminate worktop and no new appliances starts around £4,000 to £6,000 fitted. A typical mid-range Belfast kitchen of about twelve units with a quartz worktop, integrated appliances and new flooring lands between roughly £12,000 and £22,000. Premium and bespoke kitchens run from £30,000 upwards with no real ceiling. All of those figures include VAT and fitting, and Northern Ireland sits below the UK average, mostly on labour rather than on the units themselves.

A small galley kitchen is usually six to eight units. A standard Northern Ireland semi has ten to fourteen, counting base units, wall units and tall units separately. A large kitchen-diner with an island is typically eighteen to twenty-five. Count them from your plan or from the kitchen you have now: it is the single most useful number when comparing quotes, because it turns two very different-looking prices into a cost per unit you can actually compare.

Quartz costs roughly four to five times what laminate does per linear metre, so on an average kitchen it is a £1,500 to £2,500 decision rather than a £10,000 one. It will not scorch, chip at the sink cut-out or swell if water gets into a joint, and it will outlast the units. Modern laminate is far better than it used to be and is perfectly sensible in a rental or a kitchen you expect to change again in ten years. Granite sits between the two on price and needs sealing.

Someone does, and it is real work: disconnecting appliances, capping services, taking out units, worktops and tiling, and getting all of it to the tip. Allow £350 to £700 for a typical kitchen, more if there is tiling to come off the walls or a solid worktop to handle. Do not remove the old kitchen weeks in advance to save money, because you will be living without a kitchen for the entire time, and hidden problems in the floor or the wall are better found with the fitter standing there.

Plan for two to four weeks from strip-out to finished for a typical kitchen. The part people do not expect is the worktop: quartz and granite are templated only after the units are fitted and level, then cut off site, which takes a further one to two weeks. Good fitters leave a temporary board on top so you can use the sink in the meantime. Ask about it before you agree a start date.

Yes. A replacement kitchen in an existing home is standard-rated for VAT, and Northern Ireland suppliers and fitters quote domestic customers inclusive at 20 per cent, so these figures match the quotes you will be given. Watch for showroom quotes that price the units and worktop but leave fitting, plumbing, electrics and the rip-out to a separate trade you have to find and pay yourself. Those four items routinely add £3,000 to £6,000 on a typical kitchen, and they are the usual reason a showroom price and a finished kitchen price look so different.