Browse Forums Kitchen Corner 1 Jan 16, 2011 5:39 pm Re: Benchtop price check 4Jan 16, 2011 9:26 pm It seems a bit expensive quotation to me unless it is a top laminate and Do you know what type of finish at the edges? besides it appears not to have many joints. A laminated benchtop is not stuck to a substrate like stone but just sits on top removal of the old should be breaking it off from its side and pull it out unless you got it sitting below some other feature like glass splashback or something. Re: Benchtop price check 5Jan 19, 2011 9:03 am I have just ordered a diamond gloss laminate benchtop. All up the benchtop is about 8 meters. I was quoted $1050 however we are installing the benchtop and removing the old one ourselves. I hope this helps Re: Benchtop price check 6Jan 19, 2011 11:57 am Std laminate is around $80 per meter for regular 600mm wide in std finish and colour. Laminex brand tends to more $$ anyway also Diamond gloss finish is extra as are a good portion of the Laminex timber look and metal look finishes. FWIW Laminex is one of the more expensive brands of laminated bench. We put some over head cupboards in our house about 12 months ago (and now the house is being knocked down LOL) and Laminex would have costed an extra $300 for doors instead of the ones we chose. Only 5 doors and 2 face plates of 3.5mt total length. Hi Courtney The mitred edges are glued up with epoxy so those little holes and gaps are areas that weren't filled correctly. Silicone is the wrong product to fill them… 2 13330 Hi, you've probably already resolved this, however, Commbank will probably pay the funds to you after you send evidence the work is done regardless the change in the quotes. 1 36595 Just to makea point about this, an approach that some people have found sucessful in negotiating these rises down, Is to provide some workings to the builder, specifying… 4 82827 |