How Much Does a Kitchen Appliance Repair Cost in the UK? (2026 City-by-City Guide)

The cost of hiring a kitchen appliance repair in the UK varies considerably depending on your location. Kitchen Appliance Repairs in the UK should hold Gas Safe for gas appliances; none for electrical certification (verified at Gas Safe Register). This guide lists 2026 kitchen appliance repair prices for all 200 UK cities in our database — click any city for a full local pricing guide.

Regional price tip: London kitchen appliance repair costs typically run 40–50% above the national average. Cities in the North East and Northern Ireland are often 15–25% below average. Use the region jump-links below to find your area quickly.

📄 Kitchen Appliance Repair — National Price Overview (2026)

UK Range (typical jobs): £60 – £350
Typical Duration: 1–3 hours
Certification Required: Gas Safe for gas appliances; none for electrical
Cities Covered: 200 UK cities

The UK national average is used as the baseline. London typically costs 40–50% above the national average; Northern Ireland and parts of the North East are 15–25% below. Prices within each region can also vary by suburb and whether your job requires emergency call-out rates.

What a Kitchen Appliance Repair Job Typically Involves

A standard kitchen appliance repair quote usually covers:

Labour for diagnosis and repair of the fault on the appliance within the quoted scope (oven, hob, dishwasher, washing machine, fridge-freezer, or extractor)
Standard small parts and consumables used in the repair, such as seals, hoses, belts, thermostats, and elements
A diagnostic or call-out fee covering the visit, usually offset against the repair cost if you proceed
Electrical safety check of the appliance on completion, and for gas appliances a Gas Safe combustion and soundness check
A short workmanship/parts guarantee on the specific repair carried out

Simple maintenance is safe DIY — cleaning the dishwasher and washing-machine filters, clearing a blocked drain hose, replacing a fridge door seal, or swapping an oven bulb. Anything involving opening up an appliance to reach live electrical components, or any work on a gas hob or gas cooker, should be left to a professional: gas appliance repair is legally restricted to a Gas Safe registered engineer, and DIY gas work is a criminal offence that risks carbon monoxide and explosion. For electric appliances there is no equivalent licence, but a faulty repair can leave live parts exposed, so always isolate at the socket or consumer unit and weigh the repair quote against the replacement cost before proceeding.

Greater London

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
London	£70 – £130 per hour	Full guide →

South East England

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Aldershot	£50 – £95 per hour	Full guide →
Aylesbury	£55 – £100 per hour	Full guide →
Basingstoke	£55 – £100 per hour	Full guide →
Bognor Regis	£50 – £90 per hour	Full guide →
Brighton	£60 – £105 per hour	Full guide →
Canterbury	£55 – £95 per hour	Full guide →
Chichester	£55 – £95 per hour	Full guide →
Crawley	£55 – £100 per hour	Full guide →
Dover	£50 – £90 per hour	Full guide →
Eastbourne	£50 – £95 per hour	Full guide →
Epsom	£60 – £105 per hour	Full guide →
Farnham	£55 – £100 per hour	Full guide →
Folkestone	£50 – £90 per hour	Full guide →
Guildford	£60 – £105 per hour	Full guide →
Hastings	£50 – £90 per hour	Full guide →
High Wycombe	£55 – £100 per hour	Full guide →
Horsham	£55 – £100 per hour	Full guide →
Lewes	£55 – £95 per hour	Full guide →
Maidstone	£55 – £100 per hour	Full guide →
Margate	£50 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Medway	£50 – £95 per hour	Full guide →
Milton Keynes	£50 – £95 per hour	Full guide →
Oxford	£60 – £110 per hour	Full guide →
Portsmouth	£55 – £95 per hour	Full guide →
Ramsgate	£50 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Reading	£55 – £105 per hour	Full guide →
Redhill	£55 – £105 per hour	Full guide →
Reigate	£55 – £105 per hour	Full guide →
Royal Tunbridge Wells	£55 – £100 per hour	Full guide →
Slough	£60 – £110 per hour	Full guide →
Southampton	£55 – £95 per hour	Full guide →
Tonbridge	£55 – £95 per hour	Full guide →
Winchester	£55 – £105 per hour	Full guide →
Windsor	£60 – £110 per hour	Full guide →
Woking	£60 – £105 per hour	Full guide →
Worthing	£50 – £95 per hour	Full guide →

South West England

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Bath	£60 – £105 per hour	Full guide →
Bournemouth	£50 – £95 per hour	Full guide →
Bristol	£55 – £105 per hour	Full guide →
Cheltenham	£50 – £95 per hour	Full guide →
Cirencester	£50 – £90 per hour	Full guide →
Dorchester	£50 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Exeter	£50 – £90 per hour	Full guide →
Gloucester	£50 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Paignton	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Plymouth	£45 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Poole	£50 – £95 per hour	Full guide →
Salisbury	£55 – £95 per hour	Full guide →
Stroud	£50 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Swindon	£50 – £90 per hour	Full guide →
Taunton	£45 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Torquay	£45 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Truro	£45 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Weston-super-Mare	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Weymouth	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Yeovil	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →

East of England

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Basildon	£50 – £95 per hour	Full guide →
Bedford	£50 – £90 per hour	Full guide →
Bury St Edmunds	£50 – £90 per hour	Full guide →
Cambridge	£60 – £110 per hour	Full guide →
Chelmsford	£55 – £100 per hour	Full guide →
Colchester	£50 – £90 per hour	Full guide →
Ely	£50 – £95 per hour	Full guide →
Great Yarmouth	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Harlow	£55 – £95 per hour	Full guide →
Hemel Hempstead	£55 – £100 per hour	Full guide →
Huntingdon	£50 – £90 per hour	Full guide →
Ipswich	£50 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
King's Lynn	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Lowestoft	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Luton	£55 – £100 per hour	Full guide →
Norwich	£50 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Peterborough	£50 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Southend-on-Sea	£50 – £95 per hour	Full guide →
St Albans	£60 – £110 per hour	Full guide →
Stevenage	£55 – £100 per hour	Full guide →
Watford	£55 – £105 per hour	Full guide →

East Midlands

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Buxton	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Chesterfield	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Corby	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Derby	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Grantham	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Kettering	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Leicester	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Lincoln	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Loughborough	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Mansfield	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Northampton	£50 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Nottingham	£45 – £85 per hour	Full guide →

West Midlands

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Birmingham	£45 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Burton upon Trent	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Coventry	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Dudley	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Hereford	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Kidderminster	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Lichfield	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Nuneaton	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Redditch	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Royal Leamington Spa	£50 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Rugby	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Shrewsbury	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Solihull	£50 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Stafford	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Stoke-on-Trent	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Stratford-upon-Avon	£50 – £90 per hour	Full guide →
Tamworth	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Telford	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Walsall	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Wolverhampton	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Worcester	£45 – £85 per hour	Full guide →

Yorkshire and the Humber

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Barnsley	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Beverley	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Bradford	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Dewsbury	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Doncaster	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Grimsby	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Harrogate	£50 – £90 per hour	Full guide →
Huddersfield	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Hull	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Keighley	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Leeds	£45 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Rotherham	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Scarborough	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Scunthorpe	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Sheffield	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Wakefield	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
York	£50 – £85 per hour	Full guide →

North West England

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Altrincham	£50 – £90 per hour	Full guide →
Birkenhead	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Blackburn	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Blackpool	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Bolton	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Burnley	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Carlisle	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Chester	£50 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Crewe	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Lancaster	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Liverpool	£45 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Macclesfield	£45 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Manchester	£50 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Oldham	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Preston	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Rochdale	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Runcorn	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Salford	£45 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Southport	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
St Helens	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Stockport	£45 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Warrington	£45 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Wigan	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →

North East England

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Bishop Auckland	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Darlington	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Durham	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Gateshead	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Hartlepool	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Middlesbrough	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Newcastle upon Tyne	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
South Shields	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Stockton-on-Tees	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Sunderland	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →

Scotland

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Aberdeen	£50 – £90 per hour	Full guide →
Ayr	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Coatbridge	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Dundee	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Dunfermline	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
East Kilbride	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Edinburgh	£50 – £95 per hour	Full guide →
Falkirk	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Glasgow	£50 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Greenock	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Hamilton	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Inverness	£45 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Kilmarnock	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Kirkcaldy	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Livingston	£45 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Motherwell	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Paisley	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Perth	£45 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
St Andrews	£50 – £90 per hour	Full guide →
Stirling	£50 – £85 per hour	Full guide →

Wales

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Barry	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Bridgend	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Caerphilly	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Cardiff	£45 – £85 per hour	Full guide →
Llanelli	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Merthyr Tydfil	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Newport	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Penarth	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Pontypridd	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Swansea	£45 – £80 per hour	Full guide →
Wrexham	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →

Northern Ireland

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Armagh	£40 – £70 per hour	Full guide →
Bangor	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Belfast	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Derry	£40 – £70 per hour	Full guide →
Enniskillen	£40 – £70 per hour	Full guide →
Lisburn	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →
Newry	£40 – £70 per hour	Full guide →
Newtownabbey	£40 – £75 per hour	Full guide →

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does a kitchen appliance repair cost in the UK?

UK kitchen appliance repair costs vary significantly by location. Typical job prices run £60 – £350. London tends to run 40–50% above the national average; cities in the North East and Northern Ireland are often 15–25% below. Click any city in the table above for a full local pricing breakdown.

What is the average hourly rate for a kitchen appliance repair in the UK?

Hourly rates for kitchen appliance repairs depend on your location and the time of call-out. Standard daytime rates (Mon–Fri 8am–6pm) are the lowest; evening, weekend and emergency call-outs typically attract a 30–60% surcharge. Most kitchen appliance repairs also charge a minimum call-out fee equivalent to 30–60 minutes of work.

Do I need a certified kitchen appliance repair?

Yes — Kitchen Appliance Repair work legally requires Gas Safe for gas appliances; none for electrical certification in the UK. Verify credentials at Gas Safe Register before hiring.

How many quotes should I get for kitchen appliance repair work?

Always obtain at least three written, itemised quotes before committing to any kitchen appliance repair job. This lets you compare on price, qualifications and professionalism rather than defaulting to the lowest figure, which may indicate corner-cutting.

What should a kitchen appliance repair quote include?

A proper kitchen appliance repair quote should state: the full scope of work, itemised labour and materials, whether VAT is included, expected start and completion dates, call-out or minimum visit fees, and any workmanship guarantee offered.

Are kitchen appliance repair prices higher in London?

Yes — London kitchen appliance repair rates are typically 40–50% above the UK national average, driven by higher demand, travel costs and cost of living. The South East also runs 10–20% above average. Use the regional tables above to find your city's rates.

How can I check if a kitchen appliance repair is properly qualified?

Use the official Gas Safe Register checker to verify registration in seconds. Ask the tradesperson to produce qualification certificates, public liability insurance documents, and any relevant accreditation before work begins. A trustworthy professional will have these documents readily available.

Should I pay a deposit to a kitchen appliance repair?

A deposit of 10–20% is normal practice for larger kitchen appliance repair jobs. Never pay more than 25% upfront, and always pay by card or bank transfer rather than cash so you have a clear payment record. Avoid any tradesperson who demands full payment before starting.

What are the red flags when hiring a kitchen appliance repair?

Warning signs include: demands for a large cash deposit before any work starts, inability to produce insurance or qualification proof, refusal to provide a written quote, significantly undercutting all other estimates, and pressuring you to decide immediately. A reputable kitchen appliance repair will never rush you.

How do I find a reliable kitchen appliance repair near me?

Use vetted platforms such as Checkatrade, Rated People or TrustMark to find reviewed kitchen appliance repairs in your area. Personal recommendations from neighbours or friends remain the most reliable method. Always verify public liability insurance of at least £1 million before agreeing to any work.

Price disclaimer: Prices above are 2026 estimates based on regional trade cost-index data. Actual quotes will vary by contractor experience, job complexity, materials, and market conditions. Always request at least three written quotes before committing to any work. ServicePriceHub.uk is an independent price reference guide and is not affiliated with any tradesperson or trade body.

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