We had a 13 foot wide x 10.5 foot high entertainment center custom built out of solid cherry with nice crown moulding and built-in lighting done for 17K including labor. The doors were a select Cherry as well. We got quotes ranging from that to 27K for a very basic cherry built-in. Paint grade would definitely be cheaper. The same cabinet maker is making me custom paint grade mudroom bench, cubbies and cabs (approx 6 ft) plus a mail station(42 inches of lowers) for about $3500. I would suggest looking around some more. Our cabinetmaker we found in the phone book and works out of a workshop in his home and doesn't advertise. He did a fantastic job as well(It did take a while though as he is working alone). If there is anyway you can incorporate stock cabinet sizes that should decrease your costs a bit as well.

There are 3 groups of people that may respond. 1. People that LOVE it 2. People that HATE it 3. People that have only "heard" about it but have no expereince. We have the A&A Quick Clean Max. We love it - worth every dime! Let me first tell you why we love it. Aside from the initial brushing that is needed after start up, we have brushed our pool only a couple times in 2 years. Any debris that lands in the pool is quickly diverted to the skimmers due to the powerful venturi skimmers. These skimmers practically have what I will refer to as "toilet bowl" suction where you can literally see the floating debris move toward the skimmers and get sucked in. Any leaves that are heavy and may become waterlogged and sink and sent to the deep end by the pop ups and sucked into the main drain and into the leaf canister that resides at the equipment pad. Our system has a lifetime warranty, even on the pop up heads. Other brand pop up heads could run $80-120 each. I strongly feel that infloor is only as good as the installation. In our case, A&A Manufacturing received pool plans from our builder and they engineered the perfect placement of each head - and then the builder followed those plans to plumb the system. We do not have any dead spots like some may report. These are areas that accumulate dirt and debris... we have been so lucky that our infloor performs flawlessly. Some infloor systems can be sold over the counter and be installed by anyone... beware of these. You want a trained, licensed professional installing your infloor using plans engineered for your specific pool otherwise it may not be worth your money. I feel like a walking advertisement for A&A, but is it only because I believe in it and it works great! Oh ya, we paid $4000. Whew... that is all. Good luck!

Looks like you have 2 threads on this topic and I wanted to be sure you saw my other post, so here it is again. There are 3 groups of people that may respond. 1. People that LOVE it 2. People that HATE it 3. People that have only "heard" about it but have no expereince. We have the A&A Quick Clean Max. We love it - worth every dime! Let me first tell you why we love it. Aside from the initial brushing that is needed after start up, we have brushed our pool only a couple times in 2 years. Any debris that lands in the pool is quickly diverted to the skimmers due to the powerful venturi skimmers. These skimmers practically have what I will refer to as "toilet bowl" suction where you can literally see the floating debris move toward the skimmers and get sucked in. Any leaves that are heavy and may become waterlogged and sink and sent to the deep end by the pop ups and sucked into the main drain and into the leaf canister that resides at the equipment pad. Our system has a lifetime warranty, even on the pop up heads. Other brand pop up heads could run $80-120 each. I strongly feel that infloor is only as good as the installation. In our case, A&A Manufacturing received pool plans from our builder and they engineered the perfect placement of each head - and then the builder followed those plans to plumb the system. We do not have any dead spots like some may report. These are areas that accumulate dirt and debris... we have been so lucky that our infloor performs flawlessly. Some infloor systems can be sold over the counter and be installed by anyone... beware of these. You want a trained, licensed professional installing your infloor using plans engineered for your specific pool otherwise it may not be worth your money. I feel like a walking advertisement for A&A, but is it only because I believe in it and it works great! Oh ya, we paid $4000. Whew... that is all. Good luck!

Thanks for all the sympathy everyone - I know you all know how I feel :) Kateskouros: that's funny, but looking at it, it does seem as if ice skates would make those scratches - haha! There's little ice skating around here right now though since it's in the 80's and 90's, so I guess they'll have to come up with another excuse :) Kat: I know you realize exactly how I feel since you've heard all my rantings through email :) Maybe I'll have some GOOD news eventually! Remodelfla: yes, we've decided that it practically has to be a sanding issue. The scratches are hard to describe and actually look a bit different in person than in the photos. The kitchen photos do look as if the scratches were sunken in, therefore maybe didn't take the stain, but in person look a bit raised - I know that sounds crazy, and it's the weirdest thing I've ever seen!! I don't know much about woodworking and definitely not refinishing floors other than what I've read, but we're wondering if the reason it became so apparent once the poly was down is due to the waterbased Bona opening the grain of the wood - does that even sound possible?? I posted a question on the floor forum but have gotten no replies - it doesn't seem to be very active compared to this one! Anyway, I'm putting one more photo below of the scratch in the bedroom (which we KNOW was there before the sanding started) because it does look slightly more as if it's raised. Picture a scar - you know how once scar tissue forms, there's a raised area. That's kind of what it looks like in person! I have no idea why the one in the kitchen looks as if there's no stain at all because it does have some on it - but the more they tried to "fix" the worse it became. Desertsteph: we saw the floors after every process dried, so we first saw the stain and there were no scratches, then one coat of poly, and that's the odd thing I was referring to above - only after approx. the second coat of poly did the scratches emerge. So I saw the floors one morning when I was leaving for work, and then we didn't go up until later that evening when the poly dried. We IMMEDIATELY noticed that and contacted the floor company. The "coordinator/scheduler" said that he was out of town, but would send the guys over to look at it the next day. That's when everyone said they had no idea how it could have happened but it couldn't possibly be from their equipment. So...we began investigating and found everything I wrote above to Remodelfla. We haven't moved anything back in and weren't planning to for several days just to make sure we gave the floors plenty of time to "cure" or whatever. Unfortunately, everything is in storage which we are also paying for much longer now! Seaglass7: thanks for agreeing that it's unbelievable that the company would try to blame us for the scratches and that I'm not just being picky! I was honestly beginning to question whether we were just expecting way too much and if anyone else would think it looked fine (as the floor company tried to say!). We asked them if since they think it looks fine, if they are OK with us posting photos everywhere as a reference for them - see what they say about that - haha! Rubyfig: we do know that the refrigerator was pulled across the floor, but it was well BEFORE the floor company started. And we didn't worry about the fact that we could see scratches in the new unfinished wood because we thought they would be sanded out!!! And none of the appliances were moved after the floor company started - they simply stained around them. It would have been impossible to move the huge refrigerator and get it back in without completely messing up the floors after finished, so we just elected to stain around it. Not the best option, but oh well. Lukkiirish: Yep, that's the "profesisonals" we were lucky enough to choose. You'd never believe this company has been around for at least 5-10 years and isn't just some one-man operation with a hand sander or something - haha! They seemed fine until we had issues - that's when you find out what companies are TRULY like! I'm beginning to REALLY regret not going with prefinished :) Floor in bedroom - scratch corresponds to one that was there BEFORE sanding. It was a fairly deep scratch made by the bed which we just ignored knowing that we'd eventually refinish them - little did we know we'd have the scratch forever - haha: