Kraftmaid

We bought a condo where the previous owner renovated the kitchen with KraftMaild kitchen cabinets. All the cabinets are white, with laminate over the wood. It looks nice and clean, but some problems have not appeared. Of the 29 doors in the kitchen, 5 of the overlays have now pealed off the cabinet fronts. Evidently, the glue has dried out, and the overlays have popped off the wood. KraftMaid will not replace the bad doors, because we are not the original owners.

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I am home builder and also do remodels in central Indiana. I have used Kraftmaid for the last 5 projects this year and I am not at all impressed with the quality I have been seeing. On one project I had a corner cabinet that was out of square by a 1/8'" I had large wall cabinets for the laundry room that the fronts were bowing out by 1/4" and a large 5' door that was warped and the top and the bottom were not able to make contact with the cabinet front. I am currently doing another project using Kraftmaid and we are installing door panels over the 8' oven end panels and refrigerator end panels and we had one door panel out of square by 1/8" and we had other door panels that were all to be the same width but the width measurements were off by 1/8" The reseller told me the 1/8" is the tolerance for doors but when you put four panels together on a large end panel it is very noticeable. I was told this is what to expect with a production cabinet line. My response back was to ask them the car they drive and if that came off a production line. I am done using Kraftmaid.

Today is October 4, 2017. We ordered our Kraftmaid cabinets from Lowe's on June 26, and we are still without a kitchen. It took four weeks for Kraftmaid to deliver our cabinets. Then it took a week for Lowe's to come and inspect the cabinets, and they found three pieces, which were shipped from Kraftmaid with damage. One piece was not completely stained, one piece had a large dent and another piece had the joints exposed from bad construction. Then it took three weeks for those replacements to arrive. On August 28, Lowe's installers completely botched the installation and ruined some of our cabinets. We had to hire new (competent) installers to completely disassemble the kitchen and reinstall everything. (Which Lowe's paid for, to their credit.) The replacement pieces for the re-install were finally ordered by Lowe's on September 12. The estimated delivery of the remaining parts is October 16. I will NEVER use or recommend Kraftmaid or Lowe's. The fact that Kraftmaid has kept us in a holding pattern for a total of 12 weeks, waiting for parts is just ridiculous and unacceptable. I am hoping the cabinets hold up better than some of the reviewers have experienced.

We just had the bathroom of my dreams completed. It is even better than I could have ever expected! It was not bargain priced, but I feel it was fair for the excellent quality that we received. I would highly recommend Kraftmaid cabinets to anyone. I had them put into my last kitchen (about 16 years ago) and they have held up beautifully.