I'd strongly recommend avoiding this company. The craftsmanship is awful, the installation was terrible, and dishonesty runs throughout.
First, quality. The only thing custom quality about these cabinets is that they are made to size. Otherwise, the quality is lower than anything you'd get at a big box store or even a discount cabinet store. Some examples:
- Base cabinets don't have backs, so any walls are exposed (not just where there is plumbing). The backs are just a strip of construction sheathing.
- The hinges came covered in stain and polyurethane, crusty and brown, so they looked like they had been installed somewhere for 30 years (see photo). I was told that's just how it's done, which is absolute nonsense.
- The inside of the cabinet boxes and all of the drawer glides were rough because they were covered in overspray while they were sitting in the shop.
- Amcraft fakes frameless cabinets with a small face frame, but they don't have the skill or equipment to get the doors and drawers to have a consistent reveal. Even after adjustment, gaps that should be consistent vary from more than 1/4" to less than 1/16"
- Internally, there are gaps where the parts of the boxes come together as they're out of square and poorly machined.
Next, the installation.
- A skilled installer hides screws under the hinges when attaching cabinets together. Not Amcraft. They just slap them in wherever and don't bother to conceal them at all.
- They also struggled with a drill, putting repeated large dents in the sides that had to be filled (see photo)
- Amcraft uses precut strips for toe kick trip. They weren't tall enough to cover the full height, leaving the plywood base exposed. The gaps cut for vents were so big that cover plates would not cover the holes. Perhaps most egregious, they installed toe kick trim with an overlap (see photo)
- No nail holes were filed.
- The only cuts the installers will make is cross cuts to the trim. If you have an older house where things aren't level...good luck. I had to install the crown myself so it didn't look comically bad.
- Even after they were "done", I discovered later that the upper cabinets were attached with as little as a single screw. Other screw holes that were drilled never had a screw put it. A tall vertical end panel wasn't attached to anything at all. It could just be moved by hand.
- On top of the bad craftsmanship, the lead installer had such a sour attitude that even the other contractors took notice and wondered what the problem was. Two separate times (once when he didn't know I was in the room and another time directly to me) the guy lobbed insults at me after I asked them to fix things like a clearly-visible bow in the side of an island (that they had created with unnecessary shims) and misaligned doors.
Finally, the process and dishonesty.
- It took over two months just to get a set of drawings. I found many problems that had to be pointed out multiple times to get corrected. Things as egregious as a run of cabinets extending into a shower, doors opening so you couldn't reach into the cabinet, etc.
- After several rounds of revisions just to get something workable, production was scheduled. The week of the scheduled install, we were told there would be a two-week delay. When the cabinets showed up two weeks late, multiple cabinets were built wrong and would not fit. It took another three weeks to finally get almost everything fixed and installed, with each delay pushing back countertop templating too. What should have been a few weeks without a kitchen turned into months. If you want to minimize your time without a kitchen, this is not the company for you!
- We were told after delivery that the new fronts for an existing bathroom would not be installed by Amcraft. Multiple people present agreed this was not told to us at the time of a walkthrough when they were added to the project, yet Amcraft claimed it was.
- We eventually discovered that the opening for our wall oven was made for a recessed flush mount, despite us not having this adapter for the oven, and having never requested that.
- Even after "completion" it was another couple of months before a few drawers were fixed because they wouldn't work under the prep sink. We had requested a different design, but they suggested their solution...which didn't work at all. Again we were told we asked for it that way, despite having emails clearly indicating otherwise.
- The numerous issues noted above were raised multiple times to the GC and to the Amcraft salesperson. They'd send someone to take a look, but it always seemed like they were trying to do the bare minimum, and would never take responsibility for their work.
- One day the owner showed up unannounced and looked at some of the issues. He said they he would send someone back to fix things. While some of it was done, eventually he lied and said we had okay'd it all, then threatened a lien.
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