RTA Inset cabinets, not Conestoga?
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RTA inset cabinets inset or full overlay?
Comments (42)Hi, I started using Conestoga back in 2010 when Casey was about the only one here who had them. I was nervous but took the plunge. Love their RTAâÂÂs! In my last house my husband and I built this kitchen with full overlays. The finish was still perfect three years later when I sold. In the house IâÂÂm in now we are doing inset cabinetry in the master bath. One is not harder than the other to assemble. Although I buy my cabinets from Chad at Cabinetmakerschoice the cabinetjoint has the best Conestoga assembly videos....See Morecreating a baking station with Conestoga RTAs
Comments (15)Most non custom baking stations that I've done have been around 30" finished height with the counter, and used either desk cabinets or vanity cabinets as the jumping off point. Both are usually 21" deep, which means that you need blocking at the rear, or a line that will increase the depth of the cabinets. That shouldn't be an issue at all for Conestoga. They should be able to offer enough customization to do anything that you need. They do reduced height and increased depth both, correct? How can they not? I can do most of that in my semi custom lines, so a custom to order place should be able to do that. I'll admit that I gave up on their catalog the first time I tried to go through it, as it's not that friendly to understand for me, and I'm used to incomprehensible jargon spec books. So, they may not do those customizations. But, they should....See MoreOrdering Conestoga RTAs: tips & tricks
Comments (44)@emilyam819, did you give yourself about 6 inches from the ceiling like @beachem did? @lam702 - did you demo your whole kitchen before you took these precise measurements? I only have one run where the cabs have to fit in between two walls. Everywhere else I have some wiggle room. But of course this run is my sink wall, the only one I'd like to keep intact as long as possible. I was thinking that I'd order the cabinets so they're about half an inch smaller than the run (based on my measurements with the current cabinets intact), just in case - and if there ends up being a half inch gap, I'd put it next to the blind corner where it won't be seen. (See pic) @Sombreuil, this is EXACTLY what I'm looking for. I'm going to email Jim about it today. THANK YOU! @Sophie, you're so right. I have a few handy men in my life who have installed cabinets before so I'm trusting them with this. I think it also helps that I don't have many (any?) walls that need to be scribed to (and only 1 upper). But there's no doubt that installation needs to be on point for a good-looking kitchen!...See MoreConestoga - experience with RTA build
Comments (13)I've put a Conestoga kitchen together from scratch. Make absolutely sure the boxes and frames are 100% square and fronts are on flat or your installer (myself in my case) will not be a happy camper. They say you don't need clamps... Buy The Clamps. Screw uppers together on the ground if you have wavy walls and then put it up. Pre-drill your holes. If you use the 'design' service through the online cabinet company, I found them more of a 'layout' service. In hindsight I feel an actual kitchen designer who has done this before would have done things differently. Things like gaps that are different sizes between cabinet doors that just don't look high end when you see it, doors that hit other cabinets or the wall, pointless extended stile cuts, etc. They made the microwave cabinet a built in (you cut out the face frame hole) when I had it in black and white it was not a built in microwave (pre cut normal face frame). Luckily I caught it on the parts list because I had watched all the videos 2x even before I ordered. Maybe it just depends who you get. (Pro Tip, there are little plastic bits that you can install to your hinges to limit opening, which I found out myself later). I had lots of shipping damage, which they did take care of with pictures and no issues. The large pieces were hanging off the pallets, so these fragile pieces of wood (granted in heavy duty cardboard) would take the full brunt of anything they ran into being shipped across the country instead of the corner of a wooden pallet. One pallet was stacked so high and wobbly like you would only see in a Dr Seuss book, I couldn't believe it. Maybe it fell apart and the shipper tried to repack it, badly. Only much later putting on doors did I realize a set of SOSS hinges was missing. I know I didn't lose it because everything was kept in the hardware boxes that only I had access to, and I ended up with an equal number of extra Blum hinges with no home, so somehow they got switched at the packing stage, so that was an extra $25 or so. They might have replaced them but it had been awhile since I had ordered at that point so I just got them online. Go with the nicer options for details, you already spent 9k on a kitchen, spend 1k more to make it look like a 40k kitchen instead of a 20k kitchen. Seriously if this is your main home do this. Get the false door sides, etc. The special paint is good, but it's not impervious like my parent's (some kind of laminate?) cabinets. If you leave something on the paint, it's going to leave a discoloration, even if you just rub it wrong with a damp soft cloth there will be a shiny spot that doesn't go away. To give you advice it would help to know the price difference between the RTA and a comparable pre-built kitchen you are looking at, and I'll let you know my opinion if it would be worth it, based on what I know now....See Morechristina222_gw
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