Browse Forums Kitchen Corner 1 Jan 30, 2011 9:06 pm Tossing up if we should upgrade to vinyl wrap? We are having a white kitchen and I am thinking if its laminate it can get grotty between the cupboard and the pvc strip on the side and thinking vinyl wrap generally looks better Thoughts, worth the upgrade? To upgrade to vinyl wrap or not? 2Jan 30, 2011 9:22 pm We did it and are very happy with it we have the clean lines look we were after and nice glossy surfaces. Ppl talk about the wrap peeling but we've had ours 2 years with the egg cooker directly underneath one cupboard used every couple of days - so heaps of steam! - and it's all stayed in place. I think vinyl wrap has come a long way and for us was a good happy medium between laminate and 2pack which we couldn't afford. There are pics of my kitchen on the first or second page of the show us your kitchen thread if you want to see how it looks "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: To upgrade to vinyl wrap or not? 5Jan 31, 2011 9:00 am I'd read on this forum about the disadvantages of vinyl wrap and was all set to change to laminate/melamine. Then I saw two things: 1. My Mum's had a white vinyl wrap kitchen for nearly seven years and it looks as good today as it did when first installed. I had a close look and there's no peeling whatsoever around the oven or dishwasher. 2. Yesterday I visited a bunch of high-end display homes on Belmore Rd, Balwyn. Several had white melamine laundries and I was surprised how grotty the edges of doors looked. And I don't know if the tape on edges were never properly matched to some, or if they'd discoloured, but they were darker and really obvious up close. It completely put me off. I'm back on track to get a vinyl wrap kitchen. Glad to hear you've got one too, Donuts, because your kitchen looks great! Re: To upgrade to vinyl wrap or not? 6Jan 31, 2011 9:06 am Re: Peeling around Oven/dishwasher/other The most important thing is that the oven seals are in tact, My old oven need a seal for around 6 months and would have destroy vinyl wrap. Cook top maybe the same as I read the install stuff for our new one and it say if the under side didn't have XXmm clearance it would need a heat shield of some type. So long as the appliances are installed with the correct tolerance for cooling around them vinyl wrap should last a long time. Re: To upgrade to vinyl wrap or not? 7Jan 31, 2011 9:24 am Pippi I'm back on track to get a vinyl wrap kitchen. Glad to hear you've got one too, Donuts, because your kitchen looks great! thank you Pippi! "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: To upgrade to vinyl wrap or not? 8Jan 31, 2011 12:31 pm donuts I think vinyl wrap has come a long way and for us was a good happy medium between laminate and 2pack which we couldn't afford. I think vinyl wrap has been improved over the years. But not sure why this perception continues that 2pac is so much more expensive. It's not. In fact our cabinet maker got us a 2pac finish for less than the prices we were quoted by kitchen companies for vinyl. It is worth getting 2pac quoted, especially if you have a good cabinet maker with a good relationship with a spray painter. Re: To upgrade to vinyl wrap or not? 9Jan 31, 2011 12:45 pm *shrug* our builder told us it would be way more expensive to get 2pac. so we believed him. it cost us $2k to upgrade to vinyl wrap. any extra was going toward stone tops "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: To upgrade to vinyl wrap or not? 10Jan 31, 2011 1:12 pm donuts *shrug* our builder told us it would be way more expensive to get 2pac. so we believed him. it cost us $2k to upgrade to vinyl wrap. any extra was going toward stone tops Yes I think a builder would. Two kitchen companies we saw said there was a 25% premium on 2pac. But when we went direct to a cabinet maker, he said he could do 2pac for about same price as vinyl. And he did. It is after all just paint. Personally I think that one of the reason builders and kitchen companies put such premiums on 2pac is that it takes time....not in labor....but it takes time to dry and that can muck up their strict schedules. The actual process itself is not that expensive, it is just spraying multilayers of paint. Our paint was $260 all up and that was for a LOT of cabinetry (2 bathrooms, laundry and kitchen). Re: To upgrade to vinyl wrap or not? 11Jan 31, 2011 1:59 pm Yeah fair enough, good to remember for next time I suppose. we were already getting our benchtops done separately to builder, I didn't want to stuff him around too much by getting cabinetry done myself also. good for OBs to know though! "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: To upgrade to vinyl wrap or not? 12Jan 31, 2011 5:04 pm I'm having to go 2 pack for our kitchen. Have been told by a couple of cabinet makers that wrap is no good with high humidity locations as after a couple of years it begins to peel. Re: To upgrade to vinyl wrap or not? 13Jan 31, 2011 5:52 pm Hi Melrich, I was put off 2-pac because I have two pre-school aged kids. I worried I'd be pulling out the car wax all the time to buff off marks and scrapes or whatever it is happens to 2-pac. Have you had to do much to maintain yours? Is yours a light colour - if so do you notice marks a lot? I'd really prefer 2-pac as I can't get a white vinyl door to match the paint I want... Thanks, Pippi Re: To upgrade to vinyl wrap or not? 15Jan 31, 2011 7:08 pm Melrich The actual process itself is not that expensive, it is just spraying multilayers of paint. Our paint was $260 all up and that was for a LOT of cabinetry (2 bathrooms, laundry and kitchen). Yep straight two pack is very cheap these days - the money is in the labour, especially with profiles and patterns as the paint has to be hand rubbed back between coats and if there is detailing it quickly increases the time and manpower required. Another thing to think about is that the people doing the delivery and installation have to be considerably more careful when handling and fitting two pack boards - they are ridiculously easy to damage in transit and unloading. Cheers, Earl I am in the same situation, would you be able to give some insights in to this? I am in SA 8 16956 Hey guys building a new place through a volume builder and just wondering if i should complain to the site supervisor as we just had plasterboard installed. Looks like… 0 11239 Vapour permeable wraps are recommended for any climate and main think it is allow walls to breath (i.e. remove water vapour) while at the same time, providing protection… 4 9760 |