Homeowner Fears Price To Pay After Finding Issues With Renovated Kitchen

A homeowner thinks her kitchen is the victim of a hack job.

The woman explained on the community forum Mums net that she’s facing “a moral dilemma” after finding issues with her newly renovated kitchen.

“We recently had our 20-year-old kitchen replaced. Unfortunately, everything that could go wrong starting from our choice of supplier to the fitting has gone wrong,” she wrote of her frustrations.

She continued of the ongoing issues, “I feel very upset with the sense of injustice over having paid so much money for the kitchen and fitting and having to endure the stress of dealing with issues for months.”

The homeowner then noted what her “moral dilemma” is.

“The fitter who installed our kitchen was not certified to do electric and gas work, so I had to call a certified electrician and gas engineers to certify his work.” she explained. “Gas was fine as it was only a cooker he connected. However, a lot of issues were identified with electrics, which means that now a lot of what he did would need to be redone.”

She added, “My mind tells me that it’s the fitter’s fees that should go toward paying for redoing electrical work that he’s done, but I anticipate that this isn’t going to be an easy conversation to have.”

The homeowner said she anticipates the cost to be quite high.

“Whichever angle I look at it from I can’t see why we need to pay the fitter for fitting our kitchen and then be out of pocket to cover remediation of the work that he should have never undertaken given that he doesn’t have the right qualifications and registration to do it,” she said.

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Mumsnet users disagreed on who should bear the cost.

“Sorry, but I think you have to suck up the additional cost,” one person replied. “You made the decision to use a non-certified electrician to do your electrics. He didn’t get it right, so now you have to pay for a certified sparky to fix things. All on you I’m afraid.”

Another chimed in, “The original fitter screwed up. They can therefore take the hit.”