Magnet

Magnet has to be one of the strangest Kitchen showrooms I have ever seen. A barrage of difficult to understand pricing, pieces of worktop all over the place and just one lonely lady behind a desk. We had the unenviable task of refitting our kitchen this year and from beginning to end it has been a nightmare. The showrooms are in general samey and poor quality (yet prices in some seem extortionate - yes Magnet this is you!) We visited Magnet after a few others as they have a reputation for being high quality. Although the kitchens are quite nice looking once you brush the surface they are in fact quite poor quality. Chipboard backs and cheap hinges ...  Read the complete review

INTRODUCTION I bought my flat a couple of years ago, and I have always intended to do up the bathroom and kitchen. The bathroom is a mess and the kitchen has always looked a bit "tired", with 70s fittings and no cabinet space on the wall, ensuring that my work surfaces were always covered with junk. So finally, I got around to doing something about it. Having read a few of the previous reviews they mostly seem to be either quick reviews by satisfied customers or rants by one who've been ripped off. I aim here not so much to tell you what I bought, as the specific products themselves are much of a muchness and probably of similar quality, ...  Read the complete review

Here`s an interesting idea. Rather than look around every single page on the internet one by one to try to find the piece of information or data you?re looking for, why don?t you just put some words into a programme that will then go and look all over the internet to see if it can find those words, then come back and tell you where it?s found them. Yes, this is a search engine. I?ll admit, it?s quite a good one, it?s quick and intuitive and it can can tell you where to find ?.gif? or ?.jpg? files of whatever it is you?re looking for, but then so can lots of free search engines. Most people have a favourite search engine that they use all the time. If ...  Read the complete review

The Magnet showroom is beautiful. You immediately have visions of a perfect made to measure kitchen that will last you for many years. Planning and choosing colours and textures is simple too until you stop and work out exactly what it is all going to cost. My kitchen is an odd shape so I didn't think it would be easy to fit an 'off the peg' kitchen. I set aside £3000 for the kitchen of my dreams and soon discovered that it couldn't be done at that price. It was going to cost at least £1500 more to get what I wanted. I was quite disappointed as I hadn't asked for anything too upmarket. I ended up paying a joiner to fit a ...  Read the complete review

Think again.....Yeah they have beautiful colour brochures, smart enough showrooms...staff are really friendly and helpful....but what happens once they have your money? well in far too many cases not quite what you expected, I for instance, had to wait 3 days to get my sink , gas oven and hob fitted after the rest of the kitchen was fitted, due to the plumbing heating engineer being unavailable, it's now a month later since the instalation and I am still waiting for cornice to be delivered and fitted, one kitchen unit door which the fitter scraped fitting the sink....I had bought different handles for the units....so was going to get a £30 refund for my original ...  Read the complete review