Kitchen Fitting Cost Estimator

A kitchen fitter in the UK typically charges £250 – £350 per day, and a standard kitchen takes around two to three working days to fit. This estimator turns that day rate into a realistic labour figure for your own kitchen: enter your base and wall unit counts, pick your worktop material, flag an island, and count the appliances that need connecting.

Most fitters price by the day, not by the unit, so the honest way to estimate the bill is to work out how long the job will take and multiply by the day rate. The calculator does that for you, then splits the time across units, worktop, and appliances so you can see where the days go.

What the day rate covers

The headline cost is the £250 – £350 per day day rate multiplied by the days on site. Base units take the most time because each one has to be positioned, packed, and levelled off a single datum line so the worktop sits flat; the calculator allows roughly three-quarters of an hour for each. Wall units go quicker, about half that. An island adds around a day on its own once you count building it, levelling it, and fixing it down.

Worktops vary by material. Laminate is cut and fitted on the day, so it adds the least time. Solid wood needs oiling and sealing, which is the slowest. Quartz and granite take a similar hands-on slot to laminate, but they are templated separately, which shifts your schedule rather than the fitter's hours. Appliance connections, where the fitter locates each unit and links it to the stubs left at first fix, add roughly an hour apiece.

What the fitter's price leaves out

The fitting quote covers installing the units and worktops, and nothing else. Electrical connections for the oven and hob are the job of an electrician, and because a kitchen is a special location under Part P, any new circuit is notifiable work. Plumbing for the sink and dishwasher is a separate trade, and gas connections must be made by a Gas Safe engineer by law. If your worktop is stone, a stone worktop fabricator handles the template and the fit, not the kitchen fitter. Budget these as their own line items rather than assuming they sit inside the fitting cost.

A worked example

Take a typical kitchen: ten base units, eight wall units, a quartz worktop, three appliances to connect, and no island. At roughly three-quarters of an hour per base unit and half an hour per wall unit, plus the worktop and the appliance connections, the job comes out at a little over two working days. Applied to the £250 – £350 per day day rate, the labour lands in the range the calculator shows above, before you add the quartz templating trip.

The quartz is the catch. The second fix looks like a two-day job on paper, but the stone cannot be templated until the units are in and level, and fabrication then takes a week or so. Plan the gap so your kitchen installation does not stall waiting on a worktop, and settle your unit choice at sourcing units and worktops early so the whole sequence has room to breathe.