In good nick?
Jun. 10th, 2010 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sister_luckYou may remember that back around Easter we ordered a kitchen, which finally arrived this week.
There were the expected glitches - a wrong surface for the pull-out pantry and a piece of plastic drawer interior that got broken when the kitchen was set up. Also, the pipe under the sink has got a small leak. That's all easily fixed and/or replacements were ordered straight away.
Never mind that we can't really use the kitchen, because the other rooms on the same floor feature bare walls, lots of plaster dust and no doors. Thus right now the door frame is being sealed with plastic sheeting, because the plasterer is coming tomorrow to fill the remaining holes in the walls.
The important point is that the kitchen is here and that it looks great, right?
Problem is, it only looks great from afar.
There are only two or three fronts without flaws in the paintwork - either little nicks around the edges, especially on the inside and places where there's either a small indentation in the matte lacquer or a raised area. It's much more important that the appliances work, but this was supposed to be a high quality (and thus not inexpensive) kitchen built to last a life-time, so this is highly frustrating.
I believe in cars this would be called a lemon or as in German a Montagsauto, a car manufactured on a Monday when the workers were still tired from the weekend and quality control forgot to do their job because they were nursing their hangover.
The guy who sold us the kitchen came over tonight, had a look and will now get in touch with the manufacturers. Either the new fronts get ordered tomorrow or someone from the factory will come and see for themselves what a Montagsküche we got.
There were the expected glitches - a wrong surface for the pull-out pantry and a piece of plastic drawer interior that got broken when the kitchen was set up. Also, the pipe under the sink has got a small leak. That's all easily fixed and/or replacements were ordered straight away.
Never mind that we can't really use the kitchen, because the other rooms on the same floor feature bare walls, lots of plaster dust and no doors. Thus right now the door frame is being sealed with plastic sheeting, because the plasterer is coming tomorrow to fill the remaining holes in the walls.
The important point is that the kitchen is here and that it looks great, right?
Problem is, it only looks great from afar.
There are only two or three fronts without flaws in the paintwork - either little nicks around the edges, especially on the inside and places where there's either a small indentation in the matte lacquer or a raised area. It's much more important that the appliances work, but this was supposed to be a high quality (and thus not inexpensive) kitchen built to last a life-time, so this is highly frustrating.
I believe in cars this would be called a lemon or as in German a Montagsauto, a car manufactured on a Monday when the workers were still tired from the weekend and quality control forgot to do their job because they were nursing their hangover.
The guy who sold us the kitchen came over tonight, had a look and will now get in touch with the manufacturers. Either the new fronts get ordered tomorrow or someone from the factory will come and see for themselves what a Montagsküche we got.
