Why use our kitchen fitters to install your cupboards?
Let's first look at the difference between an experienced fitter and a
beginner. We will call the professional installer "Pro" and the beginner
installer "Novice".
Trial and error = experience
One of the first things that gives the pro the upper hand is trial and error.
The pro has already paid his school fees on someone else's cupboards.
For instance. When you start fitting kitchens you would first need to know
how to design one. If you didn't leave side fillers and top fillers for
allowance you are in big trouble. Why? Because the ceiling, walls and
floor is always skew. Not sometimes...always. As a matter of fact a good
fitter depends on the walls being skew. That's why he leave a space
between the walls and the side of the cupboards. He will fill that space
with a piece of wood later. A Pro will measure the kitchen very accurately
making sure he has every bit of detail of the kitchen on paper. If there is
anything in the kitchen or bedroom he has to work around like a DV board
, plug or pipe he will make sure he knows exactly how far it's situated
from the walls and floor. After all you don't want to start installing your
kitchen cupboards and realize that your cupboards are lined up directly
above a DV board or water pipe. Thankfully I've never endured that pain
but I have taking the wrong measurements where the cupboards I've built
don't fit into the space where I've measured. Now that was a head and a
huge waste of time. It's one thing cutting the cupboard smaller but a
complete other thing cutting the doors and drawer fronts smaller. Why?
Because the doors are edged with deferent edging compared to
cupboard carcass's. A doors edging can have impact edging on it that is
edged onto the door with a special machine. Impact edging can be glued
on with Gemkem by hand but it wastes allot of time. One of the edgings
you can't glue on is devon edging. The machine that does that actually
uses a router and routers away the superwood. But enough of doors and
fillers. Let's move forward.
Level your kitchen cupboards
If your kitchen cupboards aren't level your doors won't fit properly on the
cupboards. Your drawer fronts will stay skew no matter what you do and
eventually you will think it's the cupboard itself that isn't square. Well it's
not. Not everybody can level a cupboard. It's quite an art because you
have four adjustable legs that you use to level the cupboard. Every time
you adjust the leg it either move the door of the cupboard forward,
backwards, up or down. And you thought it was just the hinge that did that.
Surprise! There is an easy way to solve this problem and the Pro will
know about this method. Click here and look at the picture that's heading
reads "Sloping to the left down by 10mm". You will see that the level is
resting on a white plank. Us kitchen fitters called it a cleat. That is the
piece of melamine you will be resting the back of your cupboards on to
to line them up without any effort. If you've done this right you'll only need
to adjust the front two legs
Top fillers and finishing touches
They way I can easily see if a Pro or Novice kitchen fitter installed a
kitchen is by the quality of the top fillers and the neatness of the silicone
work. When I said it's an art to level a kitchen I meant it but if a fitter claims
he is really good look at how tight he cuts his side fillers and top fillers. A
Novice normally leaves huge gaps between the ceiling and top filer or
between the wall and the side filler. So big that he has to use allot of
Painters mate or Silicone to fill that gap. The reason their quality looks like
that isn't because they're rushing a job or trying to take shortcuts. It's
because they haven't learned the correct and easy way to cut fillers. The
obvious way that the Novice uses is actually the hard way. There is a
much easier way and the Pro knows that way. This allows him to cover
far more work than the Novice and without effort.
In conclusion
These are but a view reasons why you shouldn't use novice kitchen fitters
to do big jobs. What I didn't mention was that they could also cost you
allot of money if they damage the kitchen. After all they are still learning.
If you are building your dream kitchen and spending thousands of rands
on it wouldn't you want to know that you've placed the work in a competent
kitchen fitters hands. Remember that your kitchen will only look as good
as the fitter you use.
|
