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Re: EasyJet magazine - Kitchens
Reply #17 - Oct 31^st, 2006, 8:31pm

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Not entirely true, I've fitted a few cheap flat packed kitchens for people I know don't have a lot of money and if all the joints are bonded and sealed even a relatively poor cabinet should easily last 10 years, maybe a lot more.

maybe so I will bow to your expertise in this matter. but I have seen poor quality kitchens where the drawer units fall apart or the melamine facing on the doors seems to chip/peel after a few years.

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Re: EasyJet magazine - Kitchens
Reply #18 - Oct 31^st, 2006, 9:42pm

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maybe so I will bow to your expertise in this matter. but I have seen poor quality kitchens where the drawer units fall apart or the melamine facing on the doors seems to chip/peel after a few years.

and a few of us have seen mega bucks units disintigrate within a few months!!!!

theres a place not too far from me (and they shall remain name less , but its in CHISLEHURST!!!!) Grin

and a 1000 base unit, in "timber" not chip/mdf board starts from £860 .. YEP!! EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY QUID!!!!

and they lasted all of 10 months before warping, splitting etc etc etc, and a hinge broke within a fortnight!!

real class too!! (NOT!!)

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Re: EasyJet magazine - Kitchens
Reply #19 - Oct 31^st, 2006, 10:00pm

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theres a place not too far from me (and they shall remain name less , but its in CHISLEHURST!!!!) Grin

and a 1000 base unit, in "timber" not chip/mdf board starts from £860 .. YEP!! EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY QUID!!!!

And cheap at half the price, sir! Don't you know that it's a piece of art? You're not actually supposed to use it!

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TIMBA-WOLF Board Moderator Offline Timba-Wolf..... Var@*sh, should be banned!! Posts: 7158 Total Thanks: 15 For This Post: 0 KENT,(under a tree!!!!) United Kingdom Gender: Trade: Joiner	Re: EasyJet magazine - Kitchens Reply #20 - Oct 31^st, 2006, 11:09pm Quote: You're not actually supposed to use it! Knowing the pompus ass who's home they are in , THAT would not surprise me!!...
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Re: EasyJet magazine - Kitchens
Reply #21 - Nov 1^st, 2006, 8:09am

scotspark wrote on Oct 31^st, 2006, 8:31pm:

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Not entirely true, I've fitted a few cheap flat packed kitchens for people I know don't have a lot of money and if all the joints are bonded and sealed even a relatively poor cabinet should easily last 10 years, maybe a lot more.

maybe so I will bow to your expertise in this matter. but I have seen poor quality kitchens where the drawer units fall apart or the melamine facing on the doors seems to chip/peel after a few years.

You're absolutely right, there are cheap kitchens units, usually flat packed that need a lot of care in building but will then last for years and there are crap kitchen units that need burning Grin

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Re: EasyJet magazine - Kitchens
Reply #22 - Nov 1^st, 2006, 9:59am

scotspark wrote on Oct 31^st, 2006, 8:31pm:

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Not entirely true, I've fitted a few cheap flat packed kitchens for people I know don't have a lot of money and if all the joints are bonded and sealed even a relatively poor cabinet should easily last 10 years, maybe a lot more.

maybe so I will bow to your expertise in this matter. but I have seen poor quality kitchens where the drawer units fall apart or the melamine facing on the doors seems to chip/peel after a few years.

The melamine edging is pretty much the same wherever it comes from - universally nasty. It is true that the better quality manufacturers use a better quality MFC, such as Egger, for the carcasses and nowadays use a PVC edgebanding instead of melamine (although it's still sub 1mm thick) - both of these can make some difference to longevity. But drawer quality these days is pretty good in most cases - even the cheapest kitchens use Blum Metabox drawers (or copies of that design) and they are very durable indeed. The door quality issue is still with us (although very few people have used melamine-faced doors since the early to mid 1980s) - if you buy cheap foil wrapped (really just printed paper) MDF doors they are not going to have the lifespan of a decent vinyl wrapped door or a wooden door, but even there it depends how you treat them.

This year I've refaced several kitchens with relatively low cost units where the original installer had taken the time to add extra screws, glue joints and seal the backs and exposed edges and I was surprised to see how well they've actually fared, whereas a 12 year old "quality" kitchen had to be ripped out and redone once I got the tops and plinths off - the maker hadn't used adjustable feet (the carcasses went down to floor level), so several floods had done for a number of the carcasses whilst there wasn't a single sealed edge anywhere in sight. Had that kitchen been properly installed it would have lasted longer (up to 20 or 25 years) and cost the customer less.

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