Setting Up a Temporary Kitchen During Your Extension
PremiumYour kitchen will be out of action for months. Here's how to set up a temporary cooking and washing station for £100–£300, plus the food and laundry strategies that actually work.
Your old kitchen gets ripped out months before the new one is ready. Not weeks. Months.
On a real project, the old kitchen was stripped in August. The new kitchen fitter didn't arrive until December. That's 18 weeks of cooking on a folding table in the spare room with an induction hob and an air fryer. And that timeline is entirely normal for a full kitchen extension.
8-20 weeks
The industry guides will tell you it's "a few weeks of inconvenience." It isn't. Plan for the worst case, and anything shorter feels like a bonus.
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