How Much Does It Cost To Fit/Install/Replace an Oven?



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Cost to Fit an Oven




job
Description
labour
1To change a like for like built in or free-standing oven. This will take one man a leisurely half a day including dumping the old one.
£135

Built in gas ovens cost about £400. Electric ones about £140.

2To fit a new wooden kitchen unit supplied on site by you, to take a different sized oven (assuming a sparks or gas fitter isn’t too high and mighty for such demeaning work), then fit the new oven. Let’s say 1 man 1.5 days
£300

The unit will cost about £100

3To fit a new heftier cable and switch. This could take another day inc. materials
£250

“Labour” at £175 a day (tradesman) £100 (labourer), includes incidental fixings etc. and tipping charges. “Materials” if mentioned, are larger things (a boiler) and stuff only you can choose (tiles etc). Also VAT must be added all round.

Installing/Fitting an Oven Advice


Are we talking “like for like” or to be more accurate “like for what you used to like but have now fallen out with?” Or has the old one just given up the toast? Jeez, I’m witty today!

Luckily for you, kitchens are the one place where almost everything is standardised, so your new oven will fit into the same space the old one comes out of. And here we come to no. 685 in the list of “differences between the sexes”. A bloke will just change the oven over. His wife will disappear into the hole with a mop and a “dead mouse remover” before allowing any new oven to be fitted in her kitchen!

Beastliness aside, whether gas or electric, with like for like, the job is simple!

Not so simple, is when you want something different. If it’s a gas oven, the only problem will be removing, altering or replacing the unit it fits into, the gas supply remains the same.

Do they still make gas ovens? Didn’t they sort of die a death at about the same time as Tony Hancock and Watney’s draught Red Barrel? (I can still sing the red barrel advert you know, there’s nothing wrong with my memory……. now where was I)?

If you want a different sized electric oven, the supply cable may have to be upgraded. If your new one now has hot plates, or it’s a double oven, your existing cable will probably be too “small”. A “meatier” cable will have to be connected to the “fuse box” and routed somehow to your new oven. A new isolation switch may also have to be fitted. That’s the one with the red toggle switch set into the kitchen wall near that useless electric tin opener that never worked.

Then there’s the unit it fits into, to mess about with as well!

Also your fitter must legally be a member of a relevant competence scheme.

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