Kitchen Renovation Checklist for Mallorca
Key takeaways
- Decide before you price: layout, cabinetry level, worktop, scope.
- Check the building before you design: walls, drainage, supply, extraction, access.
- Order from the delivery date backwards.
- Ask every company the same six questions, in writing.
The complete guide explains the sequence. This is the same sequence as a list, for printing.
Before anything
- Who uses the kitchen, and for how many months of the year
- Whether the property is let, lived in or visited
- What the kitchen has to open onto – a terrace, a dining room, a yard
- What the current kitchen does badly, written down
- Photographs of every wall, and a sketch with measurements
The decisions that set the price
- Layout: kept, adjusted or changed – or priced both ways
- Cabinetry level: standard fitted, premium fitted or bespoke
- Worktop material, or an honest not-decided
- Island, peninsula or neither
- Appliances: which, and integrated or freestanding
- Flooring: staying, changing, or continuing outside
- Lighting: task, ambient, island
- Finish level: standard, premium, high-end
The building
- What the walls are made of, and whether the one you want gone is carrying anything
- Where water, waste and power arrive, and whether they can move
- Whether the electrical supply carries an induction hob, a double oven and a large fridge together
- Whether the extraction has a route to outside
- How the room is reached: stair, lane, lift, drive – and whether a worktop slab comes in one piece
- In an apartment: what the community of owners allows
- In a protected village: what may be seen from outside
The order and the calendar
- When the property is empty, and for how long
- The lead time from each company, from order to fitting, in writing
- The delivery date, and the fitting date planned back from it
- Who holds a key, if you are not on the island
- Where the old kitchen goes
Ask every company
- Which cabinetry level and which worktop material has been priced
- What is excluded: removal, electrical upgrade, plumbing, flooring, making good
- Who is responsible for the plumber and the electrician, and whether they are in the price
- The lead time, and what happens if the delivery slips
- Where the kitchen is made, and who fits it
- What is included after fitting, and for how long
When every box is ticked, the brief is written, and the quote form is where it goes.
What is the first thing to decide?
Whether the layout stays. It sets more of the price than any other decision and it is the one the building has the most to say about.
What do most people forget?
The electrical supply, the route for the worktop, and the lead time. All three are found on the survey, and all three cost more to discover late.
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