The actual wording is:
As Kitchen company.... and builder.... do not recommend the use of high glossed bench tops, we the owner/s of Lot .......and Builder... of Address...., have agreed that should the owner-selected high gloss bench tops be scratched or marked, in any way, during construction, builder or kitchen company will not be responsible for any replacement or remedial action required.
I hate the way the builders etc try to shirk responsibility anyway they can but they wouldn't do it unless we signed it so we did.
After all of that my question is has anyone else had a problem with their benchtops being damaged before handover ? and also does anyone have some suggestion on how we could protect it after it's installed and before we move in?
Thanks for listening to my ramblings, Vid
Hi Vid,
I also have the diamond gloss pure mineralstone and so far have found it to be very scratch resistant. HOWEVER, I would sign that contract only only on the provision that the builder keeps your benchtop properly covered until the tradies have ALL finished and your site has been cleaned. I think that's only fair, otherwise they're off the hook for any negligence. Our was covered with bubble wrap in most parts, but there were SO many times I came in and saw the tradies tool boxes sitting on parts that were not covered
Also, ours has a teeny little chip on one of the joins . I'm not sure when that happened, but we presume during installation. It was covered by the bubble wrap, and we only noticed it after they cleaned up. The kitchen company came and did a repair job on it which I don't think will last. We let our SS know at hand over we weren't too happy with it and would let him know if it presented a problem in the future. The fact is, accidents WILL happen and as customers, we have to be reasonable about that. BUT, don't let them get off hook line and sinker. If you sign that, they'll treat it like crap and you'll be left with an ordinary looking benchtop. Good luck with it.
We had 2 choices sign the form or not have diamond gloss ! OR spend $7000 on caeserstone so we chose to sign, we are lucky in that we are living next door to our site, we can see practically everything that happens so AS SOON as it's installed I'll cover it up and also be talking to the tradies most days (I work from home a lot) I got very big roll of bubblewrap so I can use that but I wondered if anyone has used something else they can recommend ?
I thought about getting some furniture wrappers (carpet underfelt) but until I see it I'm not quite sure how to secure it?