Allwood cabinets sold by Costco?
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All-Wood cabinets from Costco - anyone?
Comments (3)Hi Jen, I would definitely check into where they originate from. A lot of companies are saying their products are made in America. In fact, they come from China full of formaldehyde and they fall apart in a couple of years. Just beware. Good Luck Here is a link that might be useful: Green Cabinets Direct...See MoreCabinets ordered from Costco
Comments (15)Allwood is made in china with carrb 2 compliance and assembled in florida. All wood has a lot of indpendent dealers that sell it also. Costco sells it a good margin that makes it profitable for a local dealer to match their price. It drives me nuts their wall cabinets are made for top mount crown molding. It is much more difficult to install when the the molding is supposed to touch the ceiling. There is not space to float it for the high's and lows of the ceiling. I have an account with them and 6 Square but do not like to promote them. Their quality is not near as good as 6 square and as mentioned 6 square has many more cabinet sizes. I have decided as a independent store owner to not sell 6 square either as they do not have all the sizes you need and people just get confused that you can not get every color in every door style. I have all my sample mounted on walls in a selection like room and am constantly saying to people well this you can get in any color this you can not. This you can get some etc. It becomes a pain to teach everyone the differences between all the companies. I have a kitchen I am finishing up that has been on hold to install for a year. In that time all wood has decided to charge extra for finished ends and now adds a 1/4" panel on the side in florida and calls it flush. One cabinet we ordered after the original set was ordered has this factory applied finished end and it is a terrible job. I would have thought someone physically handicapped would have put it on. If you are looking for value I do not think they offer it. The box construction is good but everything else is a pain in my opinion. 6 square and allwood prices are fairly similar. The raised panel cherry door style from 6 square has been more expensive on quotes I have done then going with a custom company I work with. If you are looking for a better price go with standard overlay cabinets with plywood construction and the price will be better then what you are paying for in 6 square and all wood. To me it is better to have all the available sizes of a good semi custom company then mess around with a constrained line that has limited sku's and limited styles and colors. That is just my 2 cents.... If you really want a low price and a nice look River Run is a good choice.If you are in the North East Wolf is another brand that can be less expensive. Fabuwood has a lower price if you find someone who will sell them unassembled at a low mark up. The increase in price to All wood and 6 Square is not worth it over a larger portfolio of semi custom. I have worked with a lot of cabinet companies in the last few years looking for the silver bullet in cost to only decide price is so relative you can not have the best price on every product every time and you just chase your tail. I personally have concluded what works for me...... I was pricing a kitchen out the other day that got me chasing an account with conestoga RTA which turned out to not be a good price to me as a dealer. Entry level products: Wolf Classic and River Run had dealer cost of about 2.5k 6 Square and All wood would classify as stock line here between entry level and semi but the price would be closer to the semi custom price. I would expect it to be 3. something k Semi custom products: Brandom had a dealer cost of about 3.9k my semi custom company even though I do not care for a lot of their colors... go figure I stick with them because the price is good and they turn out fairly consistent products from one delivery to the next. I signed up with Wellborn Forest last fall for example as I like thier colors and door styles better but have decided to forget them. Many of my orders have not shipped complete things are missing on the truck when the paper work states it should be there for example. They also have a very short build time which in theory is nice but in the real world their quality control is lacking to be polite to say the least. Custom Products Touchstone Custom was 4.3k All wood and 6 square would have been close to the 3.9 k price but not had near the options that Brandom has. The book for all wood is approx 30 pages long. 6 square is closer to 100 with half of those being spread sheets for pricing. Brandom is approx 400 pages long and geppetto is over 800 pages long. It is not worth the hassle of never having the one thing you need in the design to personalize it per say. Conestoga RTA would not even give me a price that would match my Touchstone custom price which got me frustrated truth be told. As a dealer you do not know where the price of everything is just like you do not as the end user. Being a dealer is more difficult because you can not get access to the pricing and really decide what will work till after you sign up with them to make a go at it. Anyways I am not convinced I got a good price on Conestoga RTA but I have no way of knowing other then it does not match up to what companies pricing I already have. A Side note for all the Gw'rs on here that are conestoga RTA fans. Point being is that All wood and 6 Square have prices close to semi custom companies with not the options to really brag about. Price is always relative as one day I am the best deal people can find that I meet and other days my same prices with the same mark ups are not as good as alternatives in my area. The longer I have been in the kitchen business the more I have decided the constrained cabinet lines are more of a pain then a blessing for the dealer or the end user with a few exceptions....See MoreCostcos in Seattle area with cabinet displays?
Comments (9)The Costco Home Store in Kirkland used to carry Schrock but now only has Pacific Crest cabinets. They are a very nice frameless line made in the PNW. They are also sold at Lowes. I think the price point is generally higher than Schrock and they have more door styles & finishes available and can customize sizing. If your sister is interested, they usually have you make an appt and bring in your layout then they give you a ballpark price based on that. If you want to proceed, they charge a $200 measuring fee and they will also do installation if needed. I did price out Schrock cabinets at Kirkland when they had them and found them to be about the same discount as HD/Lowes (2/3 off retail). They have a Schrock cabinet display at the Tukwila store near Ikea. Definitely no displays at the regular Kirkland or Silverdale Costcos. Schrock is essentially the same as Thomasville (Home Depot), Kemper, Diamond (Lowes) and Somersby (buycabinets.com) so if she's interested might be worth checking out those avenues as well. I haven't read about too many people using Schrock but reviews on the Thomasville & Diamond lines seem to be positive....See MoreNew Line of Frameless Cabinets at Costco?
Comments (13)As Fabritec has its' own RTA line that is going after the Ikea market I did talk to a Contractor who had used both RTA lines and liked the Ikea better. He said he thought they assembled more easily and were machined more accurately. In terms of the assembled lines like Expressive\Expressions the veteran installer we had from Home Depot liked the Fabritec product a lot more than Thomasville and thought the finishing was better than Thomasville and Kraftmaid. Both Expressive and Instant were produced by Maax who sold to Fabritec a few years ago. HD staff in a few locations were very impressed with the improvements made by Fabritec since they took over production and they were supplier of the year to HD Canada a couple of years ago. Construction on the cabinets is pretty unique and they are much stronger than most frameless cabinetry before installation (they don't rack at all). All the cabinets except the sink base have solid backs made of the same material as the sides (Ikea just has a 1\4 inch cover you nail on). Fabritec uses 3\4 for their RTA line but only 5\8 for the assembled. I don't think you can get the ply in Canada, upgrading to ply is really a US thing and isn't really that desirable for frameless in my opinion.Fabritec Edgebands (in a PVC) to match your door colour. Hettich makes good hardware. My Mom didn't get full extension hardware (it isn't standard on the Instant) but I have seen the hardware in store and you can't notice any difference from displays using Blum. My Mom did a thermo finish but she only returned a couple of fronts and it wasn't a problem. Here are some pics of my Mom's kitchen. The cabinetry lined she used is called Instant and is stock line not semi-custom like Expressive\Expressions. Her kitchen isn't fancy (thermo, resilient sheet flooring, laminate etc.). Still the cabinets had some thoughtful details - the interiors were colour matched to the doors, the one piece MDF doors have a second routered edge that makes the corner appear to be square not rounded like many thermo door styles also they do all matching drawer fronts (no slab drawers, they always match the door style even on the RTA product). I contacted Fabrited directly with some questions and they were very responsive....See MoreInterior imagination
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