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We have several apartment buildings in the Gilbert and surrounding Phoenix areas. When it was time to upgrade one of our buildings we had to really watch our budget since there were 7 units to remodel. We shopped around at the regular big box stores and a few specialty kitchen and bath stores when we stumbled across Premium Cabinets and David. NOT TO BE MISTAKEN FOR Premium Wholesale Cabinets (See my review of them on their page).
David is new to the cabinet business, but that didn't turn us off, in fact we felt he was eager to learn and help us understand about anything we weren't clear about. He has a really great support system with other dealers around the country, and we thank "Ray in Montana" for his efforts helping us as well.
Once we were comfortable with the product we'd chosen, which was really great quality btw, we gave David our floor plan for each unit. 3 units were unique, and 4 units had the same layout. It's a good thing David came out to our units to do a final measure though. What we thought were 4 of the same units turned out to have subtle differences that if you hadn't put a tape measure on it you'd think it was the same. It wasn't. Thankfully David was aware that though they looked the same, builders often "fudge" walls and make on site changes to work around issues in original plans. If he hadn't come to do that we would have had at least a dozen cabinets that would not have fit, and that would have killed our budget. Our cabinet budget for this job was $25,000 not including labor. Just cabinets and hardware. Every single place we shopped priced us well over our budget, some more than double what we planned. Premium came in at a surprising $22,222 which was not only below budget, but a number we won't soon forget!
Order time was very reasonable and our cabinets arrived in about 4 weeks. Definitely on the quicker end of our experiences with other cabinet shops where 6-8 weeks was standard. There was one broken cabinet in the shipment, but David informed us, and quickly got a replacement on his next shipment.
Here's where "Ray from Montana" came back into the scene. David refers/uses Ray, another premium cabinets dealer who is also a contractor, to install cabinets. Ray is always working this area and the reason David's got started and set up the location here in Gilbert. You get to know these people pretty well on projects this big.
Ray was able to install all of the cabinets for us in just over 2 weeks, about 2 days per unit, and took care of some of the "hidden" issues behind the old cabinets we didn't know about till we took them out. That probably added 2-3 days to the installation time.
When all was said and done we saved more money and dealt with less heartache dealing with these guys than any other trade we used in our building.
All in all our experience with the guys at Premium Cabinets was wonderful. We have 7 really great looking units that we know tenant will be proud to come home to. It's rare these days to find businesses that truly care about the outcome of your project and aren't just there for a sale.
We have other buildings in the Phoenix area and when we update the next vacant units there's no doubt where we'll make our cabinet purchase.
Thank you David, and Ray, for a truly wonderful cabinet and construction experience. You deserve success for treating customers so well.
Cheers!
Oh yeah, pictures added for your visual pleasure!
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