
Sandwich Kitchens & Construction
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ANGIE'S LIST SUPER SERVICE AWARD WINNER! With over 20 years of experience we specialize in designing kitchens or any other room in your home or business. We'll create a space for you, with your desired materials and colors while blending beauty and functionality. Your project is our concern from initial meeting to final aspects of installation. We love what we do and look forward to each new enterprise.
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At Sandwich Kitchens we do a lot more than just kitchens. We also do bathroom remodels, custom glass shower doors, whole house remodeling (mainly interior), detached garages and other detached buildings, outdoor kitchens, decks, pergolas, outdoor showers, mini-split Air conditioning systems, bobcat services, landscape hard scapes such as stone walls, stone driveways, granite aprons & borders, dump runs etc. We will also consider any other project you have in mind
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Generally well, except for overall timing and schedule. We had expected (maybe unrealistically) 5 weeks of work, but it was more like 8 weeks. Still not too bad for a completely redone kitchen, but longer than our expectations.
The 3D modeling was very important in visualizing design options, since we were doing a significant redesign of the 1968 vintage original kitchen. We ended up spending a lot more than we expected (which may have been unreasonably low) but ended up with a very high quality kitchen, probably better than we originally planned for our "beach house".
"Thank you for the overall rating of "A" on this project. I do want to note that this was a beach house and was not being used during the time of most of the construction. Rip out of the existing kitchen would not have started so soon if the the customers had been living in the home, keeping this in the five week range rather than approximately eight weeks. This was an extensive project, entailing removing all the wallboard, brick veneer and completely redoing all the electrical, wallboard and tiling to ceiling along with a completely new kitchen."
The first quote I received for signature was full of caveats for products I was not purchasing. When I called this to his attention the owner, Keith, he did make modification to the quote to remove the things that did not apply to the remodeling of my kitchen. One item that was removed from the original quote draft and not in the signed quote was that I needed to pay an hourly rate for appliance installation. The quote process was "unpolished" and was a work in progress.
I believed I was getting a general contractor with Kieth, but after laying out a few thousand dollars I discovered that I also had to manage and pay some of the additional needed contractors (flooring, window install, plumber, electrician). Some quotes came in stating that Sandwich Kitchen was the customer while other quotes listed me as the customer. Keith first wanted an additional18% on top of each contractor quote, but later reduced the price to 15% of the contractors estimate. For the 15% Kieth recommended contractors, scheduled meetings with the contractors to provide quotes, and published an overall project schedule to me and the contractors. The counter top vendor was handled differently. Keith signed the estimate and handled all interactions between the counter top vendor and himself. The counter top vendor was paid by Keith and was part of the written quote given me by Sandwich Kitchens. This was a source of confusion for me.
A few times Kieth asked us what style and color of cabinets we wanted to order after we sat down and decided with Kieth writing down the cabinet style and color. This cause us to travel to his home / showroom to verify the cabinet choices again.
A provision in the quote that later became a problem was that all appliances needed to be on-site before demolition of the kitchen. We did purchase new appliances (oven, microwave, dishwasher, refrigerator) as part of the remodel. The appliance store normally delivers and installs the appliances in the kitchen. These appliances needed to be stored in the garage until the remodel was complete. I paid the normal deliver fee to the appliance dealer. Keith verbally told me that he would move the appliances from the garage and into the kitchen. Below I will explain why this became a problem.
The flooring contractor removed an existing linoleum floor and installed wood floor in the kitchen. He needed to refinish all connecting wood floors to blend in the new floor. The contractor misread Keith's schedule and we lost almost an entire day in the remodeling project because of the contractor's mistake.
Toward the end of the kitchen remodel, two issues we had with the kitchen were: length and width of the kitchen sink counter top opening and one piece of molding around the refrigerator. The counter top opening is 1" smaller that the sink specified width and 3/4" smaller than the sink length. This keeps us from finding a in-sink strainer which fits these sinks. The loss of width and length should have been brought to our attention. The second issue was a piece of molding to the right of the refrigerator that did not look as professional as the rest of the kitchen. We had a discussion with Keith over what could be done. It was clear to me that Keith did not view these two issues as a problem. My wife and I decided to drop the molding issue rather than pursue it further with Keith.
Once Kieth felt the cabinet build was done he had a very different attitude towards us. He became very short a abrupt and explained to me, on one occasion, that there is a certain type of individuals that just wants to complain.
Our flooring contractor recommended that after a final coat of poly was placed on the floor to wait a few days before moving heavy appliances across the floor. Keith has offered to move the appliances from the garage to the kitchen. Based on the flooring contractor recommendation I delayed having Keith move the appliances for a few days. On the day he agreed to move the appliances he stated he would be over around noon, Kieth called that morning and said he had a family appointment and would show up around 3 pm. At 5 pm he finally arrived with a helper. When I mentioned to him I expected him at 3 pm, he brought up my delay from the time the cabinets were done to when I wanted the appliances moved. (Remember the flooring contractors told me to hold off on moving heavy pieces across the floor for a few days to let the poly to cure.) The refrigerator was moved to the center of the kitchen and the range was brought into the kitchen. His worker was cut by the stove as he set it down in the kitchen. Kieth and the worker left to get the worker medical attention.
I was left with the install of the kitchen range. Kieth had done all the measuring to insure the appliance fit and was not around for the large appliance installs. The range proved to be difficult because the back on the counter top was lower than the front. The range install needed to be done that evening since the range was in the middle of the floor an the plumber was due early next day to install the dishwasher, the kitchen sink drains, kitchen faucet, and make the water connection to the refrigerator. The plumber helped me move the refrigerator into the opening. Final appliance leveling was left to me.
Keith provided a very good design, listened and reacted to our comments and concerns during the design phase. He was a true craftsman with the installation of the cabinets. He worked long hours during the install of the cabinets, even both days of a weekend. However, once the cabinets were installed and Keith determined he was done he requested immediate final payment. Final payment was approximately 6% of the total cost of the kitchen. This change in Keith was unexpected and caught me off guard. Because of this change in his attitude I have reservations before engaging Keith for future work.
"There were a lot of details to this job. Significant efforts were made to ensure all aspects were not overlooked. Even though the moulding in my professional opinion was installed correctly, I offered to revisit and change this to their satisfaction. The appliances were moved at no charge, as always by my company should they be present when we are there. Many companies charge for this service. The project was completed within one day of the projected date. This is not an easy task as the project encompassed many different subcontractors such as flooring, plumbing, electric, counters, construction etc., all of which were contracted through my company making us a full service remodeler. It is not uncommon to hear of similar projects by others completed weeks late. I believe I remained professional to the end and shook hands at the completion of this job. I kept every appointment date and if I was going to be late, I called."
"The [Member Name Removed] were a joy to work with. They were very open to suggestions I provided for their space and were available to keep the project running smoothly and on time."
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