A nine year old kitchen the owner had decided to replace, in a flat she was preparing to rent.
Ten minutes with a torch showed that the carcasses were eighteen millimetre melamine board, dry, square and screwed rather than pinned. What had failed was everything visible: laminate peeling at two door edges, hinges rusted, three runners collapsed, and a sink base that had swollen where a leak had sat.
We replaced every door and drawer front with laminate faced MDF, replaced all the hinges and runners with soft close stainless hardware, cut out and remade the sink base in marine ply, and fitted a new laminate worktop.
Four days and about a third of the price of a new kitchen. We said in writing that the carcasses have perhaps six or seven years left and that this was a repair rather than a new kitchen, because a landlord should know which they are buying.
The opposite decision would also have been honest. What is not honest is quoting a new kitchen without mentioning that the one in the room is sound.