Ikea Countertops?
Has anyone purchased and had installed caesarstone/silestone kitchen countertops from Ikea? It’s tempting to get the cabinets and countertop all in one shot…
Has anyone purchased and had installed caesarstone/silestone kitchen countertops from Ikea? It’s tempting to get the cabinets and countertop all in one shot…
I’ve gone through two ikea butcher block countertops with them. Both split after the first couple of weeks after installation, despite following all of the care instructions and having it installed by the ikea contractors. The countertop is warrantied, but actually getting them to make good on their warranty is a nightmare. Their customer service department is horrible.
I just bought corian counters from them. They came out great
I dont know if they do this all the time but with me I got a”quote”and had to pay to continue. and told they will come and measure and then give the final price.
They came and did a template and 2 days later told me it would be 20% more because they found more 15ft more counrt top than the originally estimated at store.
this was not true. went to store to cancel.
told me I had to pay for template $350.
long story short it is not a free estimate.
I recently purchased a quartz countertop using the IKEA recommended company, Marviks (or something similar) and was very impressed with the service from start to finish. It is convenient to do it in one shot and they have a wide selection to choose from. Also, given that the recommended company fabricates the counterop themselves it is just like using an independent company anyway, except that you don’t have the hassle of independently finding a company, choosing a countertop and having it installed. We got out countertop 8 days after the template was taken and about 2 weeks after the inital purchase. Easy peasy.
Also, if you use a debit card at IKEA to pay for the cabinets and countertop you get a coupon for 3% of the total purchase back. For me that was well over $100 which ended up paying for a very nice swanky faucet to go with my new cabinets and countertop. Lastly, I would swing the extra $175 for the IKEA kitchen designer. I didn’t and ended up with a drawer that won’t open because it hits the ovendoor handle. The designer would have caught this for me. Darn it!
I love their cabinets, etc., but the counter top installers were just a recommended company, not IKEA, and were not too thorough. Might be worth it to try and talk to the installers before accepting them.