An Excel workbook for one room: a blank kitchen BOQ with the usual lines already listed, the same format filled in for an L-shaped kitchen, a fifteen-point reference naming what every kitchen line must carry, and a checklist of questions for your contractor. Free, usable with any firm, and the download link asks for nothing.
The same eleven columns as the whole-home BOQ pack, so a kitchen line copied between the two lands in the same place.
How running feet are measured, whether the corner is counted once or twice, and why the rate column is empty. Two kitchen quotes on different bases cannot be compared, so this is the first thing to agree.
Eighteen lines in the order a kitchen is quoted and built: base and wall runs, tall unit, corner mechanism, drawers, inner fittings, lift-ups, plinth, handles, countertop, nosing and cut-outs, backsplash, sink, lighting, electrical points and installation. Give it to every firm and ask them to quote on it.
The same format filled to the level of detail that counts as specified, with the corner counted once. It is an illustrative layout, not a client's project; the point is the wording of each line, not the quantities.
What each line must name, the vague wording it replaces, and the failure that vagueness causes — from the base carcass and shutter substrate to the corner mechanism, sink-base liner and chimney duct.
Questions grouped by when to ask them: before the drawing is final, when material arrives, during installation, at handover, and about money. Printable, with tick boxes.
A kitchen is the room where two quotes for the same drawing most often turn out to describe different kitchens. Four places account for most of it, and the template has a line or a column for each.
The measurement basis. Cabinet runs are quoted in running feet, but "running feet" needs a definition: measured along the wall at counter level, and with the corner counted once. Counting the corner cabinet in both runs of an L-shaped kitchen adds roughly one cabinet depth — about two running feet — to the quantity, and the rate looks the same.
The board behind the finish. "Acrylic shutters" names a skin. The board under it holds the hinge screws and is the part a lower quote changes. The template puts the carcass grade — BWP to IS 710 for base units, BWR to IS 303 for wall units — and the shutter substrate on separate lines from the finish.
Everything outside the cabinet rate. Standard cabinetry quotes usually exclude the countertop slab, the sink and the appliances, and stone fabrication — edge nosing, cut-outs — is often a separate trade. The template lists each one as its own line with an included-or-excluded note, so an exclusion is visible instead of discovered.
Installation as a word, not a scope. "Installation included" covers anything from delivery to a levelled, sealed and adjusted kitchen. The sample itemises it, and what the installation line should cover breaks it down task by task.
| Element | What the line must name | The vague version to refuse |
|---|---|---|
| Base carcass | BWP to IS 710, 18mm, brand — every base unit, not only the sink base | "Waterproof ply" |
| Shutter substrate | The board behind the finish, named separately | "Acrylic shutters" |
| Corner solution | Mechanism, brand and series | "Corner unit" |
| Drawer systems | Brand, series, load rating, extension — priced per drawer | "Tandem drawers" |
| Countertop | Material, thickness, edge profile, cut-outs and nosing included or excluded | "Granite counter" |
| Measurement basis | Running feet at counter level, corner counted once, stated at the top | Basis unstated |
The full sheet carries fifteen elements, including wall-unit carcass, edge banding, hinges, lift-up fittings, plinth, sink-base liner, chimney duct and GST.
A direct link. No form, no email, no phone number — a download is not an enquiry, and nobody will call you for taking the file.
Doing more than the kitchen? The whole-home pack covers wardrobes, TV unit, false ceiling, pooja unit, painting and electrical in the same format.
Agree the basis first. Write the measurement basis at the top of the sheet and ask every firm to quote on it. If a quote has already arrived, re-measure its runs to that basis before comparing rates.
Copy each quote into the format. A line a firm cannot fill in — the hinge series, the shutter substrate, the corner mechanism — is not a detail they forgot. It is a decision left open, and open decisions get closed on site.
Add the exclusions back. Countertop, nosing, cut-outs, sink, backsplash and installation scope: put every excluded line back into the cheaper quote before calling it cheaper, and put every quote on the same side of GST.
For what a kitchen costs once it is specified, see kitchen cost bands by layout, which carry their basis and date. Before you pay anything, the contractor checklist covers drawings, material checks, payment and warranty in more depth.
Cabinet runs are usually quoted per running foot, drawers and fittings by count, and the countertop and backsplash per square foot. Either way, the BOQ should say how running feet are measured — along the wall at counter level — and whether a corner is counted once or in both runs. Two quotes on different bases cannot be compared line by line.
They should be on it even when they are excluded. Standard cabinetry quotes usually leave out the countertop slab and the appliances, so the template lists them as their own lines with an included-or-excluded note. The hob and chimney models also belong on the drawing, because the cut-out and duct sizes depend on them.
In an L-shaped kitchen the corner cabinet sits at the end of both runs. Counting it in both adds roughly one cabinet depth, about two running feet, to the quote. The sample counts it in run 1 only and says so in the remarks column, which is what any quote you compare it against should do too.
So the sheet can compare two or three contractors against one fixed specification without our numbers anchoring it. Kitchen cost bands by layout are published on the site with their basis and date attached, which a spreadsheet passed around on its own cannot carry.
Yes. The blank format lists two base runs and two wall runs; add a run per wall for a U-shape, or drop the corner line for a parallel kitchen, which has no corner. The specification reference and checklist apply to every layout.
No. The download link on this page is direct and asks for nothing. A download is not treated as an enquiry, and nobody will call you for taking the file.