After talking about how much it costs to move a bedroom, today let’s try to understand which variables affect the cost of moving a kitchen. It is obvious that there are many items involved: a kitchen can be more or less large, more or less accessible, more or less distant from the destination address… The cost for moving a kitchen from an Italian city to a city in the Northern America, for example, will certainly be higher than the cost of moving the same kitchen from one place to another in the same province.

And so on depending on the parameters we take into consideration. Also pay attention to the work of adapting the furniture and connecting the gas and electricity. A basic move that only involves disassembling and transporting the kitchen can have a very low cost, starting from 300-400 dollars. To this estimate, however, it is necessary to add ordinary and extraordinary factors to be evaluated from time to time. Let’s look at the main ones below.

CONDITIONS IN WHICH THE KITCHEN IS PRESENT

In what condition is the kitchen to be moved? This question is crucial for calculating base costs. What makes the difference is the state of the furniture (wall units, sideboards, tables): do I need to disassemble them or are they already packed? And once in place, is it up to the movers to reassemble and place them, or is it an operation that the owner will take care of? Again: are carpentry works necessary for the modification of the furniture after the move ? Considering that it is very, very difficult to find a kitchen of similar size and with the connections arranged in the previous way, we can say that this item should always or almost always be taken into account.

ACCESS TO THE KITCHEN (AND EQUIPMENT REQUIRED)

The kitchen could be located on the ground floor of a country house, easy to reach even with a simple van. However, we will also have frequent scenarios in which the kitchen is located on the top floor or on the upper floors of an apartment without stairs, for which the intervention of special means is required such as the PianoPlan robot or mobile cranes with platforms to access the kitchen from balcony. In the case of public land and not privately owned, a request to occupy the street or square must be made: without the authorization of the municipality, you risk fines, even hefty!

DISTANCE FROM THE PLACE OF DEPARTURE AND TRANSPORT BY SEA

It is clear that the distance from the place of departure has a significant impact on the cost of moving a kitchen. We have already said that a move to Northern America is undoubtedly more expensive than a move to the same province. It is not said, however, that a more distant move is necessarily more expensive. In fact, the cost of embarking on a ship can be higher than the cost of driving a truck on the road. In our national and international removals we always evaluate the best route, i.e. the solution that respects the budget and deadlines.

EXTRA SERVICES (STORAGE, CLEANING THE PREMISES, ETC)

To the variables mentioned so far are added what we could define as extra services. Among the most common we cite, as an example, the storage of furniture, very useful when the new home is not yet ready (trivially because the room used as a kitchen has yet to be painted or because the fixtures are missing). Equally appreciated is the cleaning of the room after the move, a service required in case the tenants have already moved in and need to hand over the old property in order. If you want a customized quote, we remind you that our site inspections are free and without obligation.