Kitchen wrapping: what it costs, and where it fails
Vinyl wrap over your existing kitchen doors: prices UK firms publish, how long the film makers say it lasts, the heat limit, and how it compares with a respray.
Updated 30 October 2026 · The Kitchen Resprayer
The short answer
Kitchen wrapping is a self-adhesive film stuck over your existing doors, panels and plinths. UK firms publish from about £750 to £3,500 for a kitchen, and the film makers expect 5 to 12 years from it.
It suits smooth, sound doors away from heat. Film is rated to about 65 to 70C, so doors beside the oven or under the kettle are the ones that lift first.
What kitchen wrapping is
A fitter cleans your doors, primes the edges, then covers each one in a vinyl or architectural film with its own adhesive, usually taking the doors away and wrapping the frames and panels in place. The films firms name are 3M DI-NOC, LX Hausys, Cover Styl', Vion and d-c-fix. 3M's DI-NOC is 200 microns thick, about the same as two sheets of printer paper.
It's not the same thing as a vinyl-wrapped door from the factory. Those have a foil heat-pressed onto MDF when they're made, and most of the forum stories about vinyl peeling by the cooker are about those. If your doors already have factory vinyl that's lifting, see painting vinyl and laminate doors.
What UK firms charge
| Firm | Doors and frames | Worktops | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wrpx (South Yorkshire) | From £45 a door; from £850 for 10 to 12 doors with frames and plinths | From £250; £250 to £350 for a straight run, up to £450 to £700 for a U-shape or island | Includes taking doors off and rehanging. VAT not stated |
| Wrapcraft (Suffolk, Essex) | £90 to £130 a door; small kitchen £1,300+, medium £2,000+, large £3,500+ | From £600 under 6 m, £850 for 6 to 10 m, £1,200 over 10 m | All plus VAT. 3 to 5 days on site |
| Kitchen Wrapping London | Small £750 to £1,000, medium £1,100 to £1,400, large £1,500+ | Not published | 1 to 2 days |
Prices as the three firms list them on their websites on 30 October 2026. For a wider spread, Bestbuilders' cost guide puts a kitchen at £900 to £2,500, with premium or textured films adding 15 to 30%.
Check whether the price includes VAT, worktops, upstands, end panels and plinths, because firms quote them differently. Doing it yourself, a 67.5 cm by 10 m roll of d-c-fix was £34 at Homebase on sale, and Frenchic sells its wrap at £8.95 for a 2 m roll. For what a respray costs, see how much a kitchen respray costs.
How long it lasts
The film makers are more specific than the fitters. 3M expects 12 years from DI-NOC on indoor vertical surfaces like cupboard doors. Cover Styl' says a quality wrap lasts about 5 to 10 years. Firms quote 5 to 10 years, with Wrpx saying "5+" and Wrapcraft 10. Worktops wear faster than doors, because they take the knocks and the heat.
A guarantee is a different thing from that lifespan. The fitting guarantees UK firms publish run from 12 months (Wrapcraft, with the film backed by its maker) and 2 years (Kitchen Wrapping London) to 5 years on materials and workmanship (Wrpx), and Kitchen WrapCo offers 3 to 12 years. 3M's own warranty, in the wording it publishes for the United States, excludes film exposed to excessive heat or humidity, or fitted without proper surface preparation. So ask who you'd call if a door lifts in year three, and whether heat is excluded.
Where wrap fails first
Next to the oven, hob and kettle
Edges and corners
Steam and condensation
The door underneath
What film won't stick to
3M's instructions for DI-NOC are specific about the surface. Bare MDF is porous and has to be sealed or primed first. Melamine and laminate doors can be textured, so they need sanding smooth and priming. Some plastics are a lost cause: polypropylene and polyethylene fail without an adhesion promoter, and polyethylene still fails with 3M's own Primer 94.
Shape matters less than you'd think. Firms wrap shaker doors as well as flat ones. What counts is a smooth, sound, sealed face and well-primed edges.
Repairs, cleaning and taking it off
A scratched wrapped door isn't touched up like paint. 3M says a gouge can be cut out and patched with the same pattern, and a dent relaxed with heat. Cover Styl' says scratched or peeling vinyl gets the whole door re-wrapped. No firm read for this page publishes a price for either.
Clean it with mild detergent. 3M rules out ammonia, chlorine, strong solvents and abrasives, which takes a lot of kitchen sprays off the list. For painted, gloss and wood doors, see what door makers say to clean them with.
Plan for the day it comes off, too. 3M says clean removal without substantial damage is unlikely once primer has been used, and takes it off with heat in narrow strips. MyJobQuote puts removal from a full kitchen at £200 to £500, before the doors are prepared for paint.
Wrap or respray?
Wrap suits
A respray suits
Neither suits
If you're not sure which camp your kitchen falls in, send two photos for a free respray quote. A photo of the doors beside the oven and one close up of an edge says most of it.
Where this comes from
- 3M, DI-NOC technical data sheet (May 2021)
- 3M, DI-NOC instruction bulletin (December 2020)
- Cover Styl', are vinyl-wrapped kitchen doors any good (20 May 2025)
- Wrpx, kitchen wrapping cost
- Wrpx, worktop wrapping cost
- Wrapcraft, kitchen wraps
- Wrapcraft, worktop wraps
- Kitchen Wrapping London, cost to wrap a kitchen
- Kitchen WrapCo, Trustpilot profile
- Bestbuilders, kitchen wrapping cost (10 August 2026)
- MyJobQuote, kitchen wrapping cost (22 September 2026)
- Homebuilding, vinyl wrap for kitchen cupboards (22 June 2022)
- Frenchic, how much does vinyl wrap cost
- Homebase, d-c-fix self-adhesive film
- Elite Spray Tech, vinyl wrapped vs spray painted kitchen
- kitchenwrapping.uk, how long does kitchen wrapping last
All read 30 October 2026. Firms change their prices and terms; check the current position with them.
Common questions
It depends on the doors and where they sit. Film suits smooth, sound doors away from heat: 3M tested its DI-NOC film at 65C and d-c-fix is rated to 70C, so doors beside an oven or under a kettle are where it lifts first. Paint doesn't have a film edge to lift, and a damaged sprayed door can be refinished rather than re-covered.
Firms that publish prices start at £750 to £1,000 for a small kitchen (Kitchen Wrapping London) and from £850 for 10 to 12 doors with frames and plinths (Wrpx). Wrapcraft charges £1,300 upwards plus VAT for a small kitchen, or £90 to £130 a door. Worktops are extra, from about £250.
3M expects its DI-NOC film to last 12 years on indoor vertical surfaces. Cover Styl', another film maker, says about 5 to 10 years, and that doors near kettles and ovens may see edges lift sooner. Worktops wear faster than doors.
Heat (film makers rate it to 65 to 70C), edges lifting where the film was stretched, no place where condensation keeps forming, flaws underneath showing under spotlights, and removal: 3M says clean removal without substantial damage is unlikely once primer has been used.
Sometimes. 3M says a gouge can be cut out and patched with the same pattern, and a dent relaxed with heat. Cover Styl' says scratched or peeling vinyl can't be touched up and the whole door gets re-wrapped. Ask a fitter which they'd do before you choose a film.
Yes, once the wrap is off. MyJobQuote puts removing wrap from a full kitchen at £200 to £500, before the surface is prepared for paint, and a spray firm, Elite Spray Tech, says painting over failing vinyl is unlikely to last.
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