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Builder-Grade Cabinets in the Kitchen

Bob is in the Punta Gorda house with Jack Ballantine of Ambassador Kitchens, where builder line kitchen cabinets have been installed. These Maple cabinets from Cardell Cabinets of San Antonio, Texas, have Maple faces, solid wood frames, and pressboard boxes. The hinges are from Blum and are fully adjustable European or concealed hinges. The drawers feature a builder-grade box, which means it's of consistently high quality but not of the company's highest grade. A builder-grade cabinet will feature baseline construction with custom features like cabinet faces and wood selections. The benefit, Ballantine explains, is that the cabinets are delivered on time, consistently. A special rate and quality service are extended to customers, like Ambassador Kitchens or Mercedes Homes, who outfit a number of homes with their line. In Florida, where the demand and wait time are extensive, a delivery time of three to four weeks is terrific.

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" We're in the kitchen we're gonna get started with Jack Valentine hijack right I don't welcome to the scene of the crime here now we want to talk about these kitchen cabinets is there. A builder's line ended their kind of like -- wholesale sort right. Who makes these -- out cabinets out of send home Texas at San Antonio Texas. And what kind of wood these are maple. So it's solid maple frames and panels. The face frame is maple solid wood the doors are maple pressed board boxes the buildup that standard to the building industry pretty much what about the the hinges. -- So they look like the European hinges are fully adjustable and all that. And what we have is situation here for the stove hood and below me the cooktop. Right. And -- room for drawers underneath that what's the drawer construction like. I this is press court. I can send us the builder box for the now the builder great pounds -- off the front is solid solid wood here in new. Now we keep saying builder as a builder developer somebody like Mercedes for example what are they looking for from a cabinet supplier."

" They -- equality cabinetry but don't try to give you the top of the line in hand. All they give you more of an affordable cabinet evening all but the young grade -- it is it's acceptable. I don't hold up and Florida attacks and what about dependent but -- Terms of deliveries. Of generic this. They're delivery -- three to four weeks stand up to that yet consistently that's important yes. Ambassador kitchen they probably did end. Anywhere from three to six tractor trailers a month. A month."

" How much and they're using woods that are native species right. There's all these woods are grown in Texas throughout the south and into Florida and so they make a lot of sense."

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