Where to get Flooring from ? and Kitchen Cabinets?

Question

I am in central New Jersey.

Need advice on below :

-1) where to buy flooring from for flips?  I am buying from homedepot or builddirect.com.

Where are pros buying from .. need good looking (cherry)engineered wood within $2 /sqfeet.

-2)  Where to pick Kitchen Cabinets at good price?

Amit Patel · Answer

Try Chen Depot in Jersey City or in North Brunswick Best One Kitchen Cabinets.

For hardwood flooring -its tough. You have to look for deals and get them. There are mills in VA and other places where you can buy bulk and it will be cheaper but it only works if you have like 4 thousand square feet at a time due to high shipping costs.  I was able to get some really good hand Shaw scraped Oak for $2. Cheapest elsewhere was $3.25.  My suggestion though is to just stick to sales locally and find the best deals there. Whatever you buy, make sure you do a good test and check that it won't get scratched up and look like *&@#$# in 2 years. I get samples and key them, scuff them throw stuff. For the mid-end apartments, I've switched to the Luxury Vinyl instead of hardwood and this  costs about $2/sq. foot and is easy to put down and have gotten great reviews from renters. Looks like hardwood but very resilient, waterproof and easy to clean.

Zachary Foust · Answer

Not to familiar with the NJ area, so I am not familiar with a specific business for Flooring.

I would personally check liquidators and wholesaling floor an tile marts in the area.

For cabinets though, look up your local Habitat for Humanity Restore. They sell refurbished products from homes that were either redone or foreclosed. They sometimes have cabinets that have the tag still on the back that are marked down 60%.

Jonathan Preciado · Answer

I'm not sure how involved you are with your flips, but if you are willing to assemble your own cabinets I would check Custom Service Hardware: http://www.cshardware.com/kitchen-and-bath/cabinet...

I did a small kitchen for around $1900.  They are very high quality and look expensive which is certainly a plus.  Frames are 1/2" Plywood (no particle board), dovetailed drawers with soft close feature, 3/4" doors with raised panel vaneer.

They took a Saturday to assemble, but I also had a lazy susan and corner cabinet which were complicated.  Their website offers a free program to design and order.

If you are willing to do some of the work yourself, could be worth it.  I'm new to BP so have no clue how to upload pics, but happy to send via email.

Ryan Ogilvie · Answer

Lumber liquidators has low pricing on flooring and a good selection.

I recently used lilyanncabinets.com to replace cabinets in a rental and was happy with the quality and the price. They were all solid 3/4" wood cabinets, shipped quickly, and were easy to put together.

I've also noticed every Lowes and Home Depot have different flooring products on sale at each different store in a clearance flooring section. If you have the time there are probably 5-10 of each store within a half hour ride of where you live, if you spend some time and stop at a few of these stores you can most likely find something you like at a good price.

Cheryl Schuck · Answer

There's a great store up my way which wouldn't be too far of a ride, but there may be one closer to you. Check out www.flooranddecor.com and see if there's a closer location.  You can build "stock" rooms should you want to use the design over again in another house.

Michael Miele · Answer

@Jats Mohan

I'm in central Massachusetts and we use JK cabinets. If you google JK cabinet New Jersey it should come up. They have dealers all over. The prices are very reasonable. 3/4 boxes with soft close drawers and doors. Lots of accessories to really make the kitchen pop. I pay the extra $10 per cabinet to have the factory assemble them. You can assemble them yourself if you want to save the $$. Good luck.

Amit Patel · Answer

http://www.reallycheapfloors.com/engineered---800

Make sure you look at the First Quality or Blue Label grades. Cabin grades is not usable and builder grades often have some issues with pieces that will increase you install cost.

If you do like something you can also request a sample. If you are doing pricing, make sure you figure out the freight with them as well so you don't waste time if it won't work with freight. Again, the caveat is that they worked well for me for larger order and to make sure you order samples if something looks good.

Jats A. · Answer

Amit, How to reach the mills in VA that you mentioned .. that seems like good price. I understand the order has to be higher for it to make sense. Any website ?

Tanya, Will check out millworkcity.com

Tanya F. · Answer

I just bought some cabinets from millworkcity.com.  They haven't arrived yet, but I hope to have something good to report in the next week or so. Really good prices.

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