Installation Cost: per kitchen cabinet box

[Brian G.]

Do you pay per box? By linear foot? And how much?

[Christopher B.]

Originally posted by @Mike F.:

Originally posted by @Manolo D.:

Mike F. You're just used to doing your own custom cabinet, IKEA is not that bad, I've seen and known a couple of products, not just cabinet. Your custom cabinet shop will yield better, but to someone who values every cent, your custom cabinet is not worth it. I've seen a 60' cabinet for $1800, and they're still hanging, on the other hand, I've seen some 60' cabinet for 24,000 and when you hang the solid doors, it sags, custom, yeah right! Everything is, in my opinion. Everything came from somewhere, factory or by hand. Some just don't have the expertise to hang them because they're used to their own system.

I never said anything about custom cabinetry.  

IKEA is a Euro style cabinet system versus an American style cabinet system. (hanging rail versus soild box installation) - In Europe it's common for apartment owners to own their cabinetry, they take it with them when they more, hence you see a rail mount system and cabinetry sitting on legs. American style cabinetry is a permanent installation the cabinets are owned by the apartment owner and stay with the apartment. (IKEA - designed off a temporary installation system, American cabinetry is designed as a permanent installation) IKEA even worse is a knock down product designed to be shippable in flat boxes, American cabinetry is permanently assembled delivered in finished size.

Apples to apples is standard factory built American style cabinetry versus Euro style. Custom cabinetry isn't even in the equation, that's a another whole level higher.

IKEA is a removable cabinet system it's a square peg in a round hole for American kitchens, American kitchens are American homes the cabinetry is owned by the owner of the home not the tenant the cabinetry is permanent. 

Flippers don't even have a clue about any of the above, they don't know that IKEA is a Euro system, they just see a lower price and think it's just cabinetry they can buy cheaper, which is what flippers are only concerned with, flippers love putting lipstick on pigs as long as they can fool their buyers.

Who are you? No picture, no information in your profile, you just come here with your sour grapes and rail an entire industry by stereotyping everyone in it based on your clearly very small sample size. If you had a large enough sample size you would not be spewing the same garbage because it is not true, at all. I'm sorry if you purchased a bad house from a "flipper" who cut corners but bringing your sour grapes here doesn't accomplish anything.

You quoted a statement from another poster above, saving it from another thread and retyping it here, which isn't weird at all btw. You have no idea exactly what he was referencing or what he and his contractor think is enough or overkill. You're reaching only to try and validate your negative opinion of people that buy and sell homes, which is also completely off-topic in this thread.

Yes, there are people that cut corners out there when rehabbing homes. It's unfortunate but it does happen. There are people who cut corners in every industry though, are you in the forums of those trades railing the masses for the sins of a few? I'm not sure what your issue is but I KNOW that there are investors at BP that aren't corner cutters and will stand-by the homes they sell. I personally write my name inside the walls of every house I sell because we DO NOT cut corners. Everything we do is to code and inspected to ensure it is. So I don't take kindly to people such yourself that come-in and attempt to slander me by lumping me into broad, uninformed statements that have no validity.