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"TheScullster" writes:

My complaint is that there must be hundreds of serviceable kitchen carcases
(even if I buy new doors to keep it smart) just hurtling towards the tip. I
have heard of kitchens being pulled out after less than 3 years occupancy of
new 2-300k houses nearby - obviously not now when they are needed!

Kitchen carcases are cheap, and peoples' time expensive,
so no one is going to take the time and trouble to remove
them carefully enough to be reused.

Also, kitchens are designed to be installed exactly once.
I've seen two cases of kitchens having been taken out for
some other work (tanking, floor replacement) with the
intention to refit the kitchen afterwards, and that just
never works right. In both cases, the kitchens had to be
ripped out again and replaced with new. (Neither of these
were DIY -- it's possible that DIYer with less of an eye
on the clock would do a much better job here.)

--
Andrew Gabriel