My kitchen is old. Bench top is laminated and it bulged due to water leak. Now i am planning ti replace it with xenolith bench top from polytec. Quote was $6250.
Bench top 3500mm x 600mm, 2900mm x 260mm, 2500mm x 600mm are sizes of the stones.
Also got a quote of $8000 for just refacing all kitchen cabinets.
Fellow bargainers, Please let me know if this is a reasonable price or am i being ripped?
Edit 1: i have requested few more quotes.
My thought process entirely!
Bikies
Thank you. I have updated it. Please check if it make sense now.
Now your response options can at least be logically interpreted, but sadly you have set your poll to "don't allow vote changes"; so no one who voted 'bikies' can now change their vote to either of your corrected/meaningful options.
Oh well, you have your answer:
Bikies ;P
Hahahah
But the short answer is that nobody knows
Hence two of the poll answers should be….
GET MORE QUOTES
GET A QUOTE TO REPLACE WHOLE KITCHEN
You have not provided enough information to determine whether a quote is appropriate or not. What's the breakdown of the quotes? Labour vs materials? What support brackets or fixings included? What kind of finishing on the ends? How many kitchen cabinets included? What material? What colour?
You've basically asked: "I found a car for $8,000 - is that good?"…
Get 2 other quotes from competitors and cross-compare. Never accept a single quote.
This may help too: https://www.ekitchens.com.au/products/xenolith-benchtop-3600…
Sounds like a rip off! I got a whole flat-packed gloss poly galley style kitchen with stone benchtops (not sure if these are kosher anymore) about 12 months ago for under $4k. I paid extra to have the benchtops cut to size and installed (about $500 from memory). This is in Sydney, so not sure if prices are different where you are OP.
'I paid extra to have the benchtops cut to size and installed (about $500 from memory).'
You appear to have left off a zero there.
You appear to make incorrect assumptions!
Depends on the cuts but $500 sounds right.
Great. I think mine is medium sized kitchen.
What country did this go down in then … India? The Philippines maybe?
Are you seriously suggesting that any mob here in Australia 'threw in' customised cutting of stone benchtops to size and installation, for an additional $500 only?
Good joke, muchacho.
No joke Knucklehead, kitchen was flat packed and delivered with 2 lengths of the stone benchtop, which was cut on site. I had a tradie cut the stone and install the benchtop for $500. There was only 3 cuts - simple galley style kitchen.
There's insufficient information.
Im assuming laminate. What thinkness, type, edging, finish?
Any complications in installing? How much cutting and adjustments for walls, windows etc?
Have you got another quote for same? For comparable products?
To give you an idea, my kitchen quote in engineered stone was $11k. I ended up choosing marble costing double that.
My cabinetry was $30k. Total kitchen spend was $60k.
Kitchens are a how long is a piece of string scenario 🤷♀️
I understand what you mean. It is just that i am not really familiar with the terms used for this work.
Xenolith is not laminate, it is kind of stone. There will be two cuts. One for stove and one for kitchen sink. Square edge, 25mm thickness.
"Xenolith is not laminate, it is kind of stone. "
mmm, no. from website
"polytec’s Xenolith is a 15mm premium coloured core composite laminate, "
and from brochure
"The surface of polytec’s Xenolith is made from a stain-resistant melamine based resin."
it's sort of in the name being 'poly'
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It's their top line laminate and for that price I would be looking at the new 0% engineered stone or porcelain.
Laminate is cheap and is goid for the right look and price point.
Also, be aware that both Polytec and Laminex are jacking prices up fairly regularly. Polytec sheets for the top level (example Florentine Walnut woodgrain) is now running at over $250 a sheet. Thats before labour, door core, hinges etc. Plain colours has now gone over $100 and melamine is pushing $50. Its almost a 20% jack in 12 months.
Carry your 8k to Maccas
why cook if they do it for you?
More info required.
In any case if you're not up for the cost then stone is not for you. Laminate will be the go in that case.
To be honest though that much for just bench top feels super expensive. You could do an entire kitchen renovation yourself for that much.
Get another two quotes If you want to get a better feel for the pricing. Just make sure the scope remains the same. This is pretty standard practice.
There are too many variables to be able to give a valid answer on this.
OP get atleast 3 quotes for each job
I just had my bench top replaced with engineered stone in Sydney. Required two sheets. 40mm edges with undermount sink and cutout for stovetop installed for $3600. Was some stone left over so they made me a bench top for the laundry as well included in the price but I will install that myself at a later time. I had to remove the old kitchen bench top and splash back myself.
You don't say how many kitchen doors are being replaced.
I've just had a quote for a new kitchen. $42k
3m overhead cupboards
5m of underbench cupboards including some custom sizing
Ceasarstone benchtops and splashback
Mid-range AEG appliances (cooktop, oven, rangehood)
Mid-range sink/taps
all trades and a project manager I trust.
So in some ways your quote for the doors seems high but the benchtop not too bad.
You need to use more descriptive wording for the responses. Rather than a single word for each (which is highly ambiguous), for a poll you should at least ensure that each response item is a phrase or sentence.
Note that—for example—in your final sentence you ask two questions, which are essentially opposites of each other. Which one of these two 'opposite' questions is 'yes' or 'no' supposed to refer to/answer? There's no way for respondents to be sure.
Try again.
If you leave your original simplistic wording as it is, everyone will just vote 'bikies' … because you have asked an unintelligible question.