Materials
Almost everything that fails in a kitchen fails at the material.
Not at the design. So we write the board grade and the hardware brand on every quotation — and you should ask everybody else quoting you to do exactly the same. That one question tells you more about a price than the price does.
Boards
- BWP marine ply — IS 710
- Boiling-water proof. Kitchen carcasses, bathroom units, anywhere that gets wet. The grade that decides whether a kitchen survives ten monsoons or two.
- BWR / MR ply — IS 303
- Boiling-water resistant. Wardrobes, TV units and bedroom furniture in dry rooms. Cheaper, and entirely correct where there is no water.
- HDHMR
- High-density high-moisture resistant. A denser, flatter face than ply, used where the finish would show every grain — acrylic and lacquer work.
- MDF
- Membrane press and lacquered doors, where a shaped profile is wanted. Never in a wet area.
- WPC
- Wood-plastic composite. Bathroom doors and frames — it does not swell, rot or take on water at all.
- Solid wood
- Main doors and frames. Sheesham and teak where the budget allows, seasoned properly before it is cut.
Hardware
This is where the money in a kitchen actually goes, and where the difference between a cheap quote and a fair one usually hides.
- Hinges
- Soft-close, from Hettich, Häfele or Ebco. Named on the quotation, because a hinge is the part that fails first and the part nobody looks at.
- Drawer channels
- Telescopic and tandem, soft-close. The difference between a drawer that still runs in year five and one that scrapes by year two.
- Lift-ups and flaps
- Hydraulic, for overhead units — so a wall cabinet does not swing down onto somebody's head.
- Corner solutions
- Magic corners and carousels, so the corner of an L-shaped kitchen is storage rather than a dead void.
- Handles and profiles
- Handle-less profiles, edge pulls and conventional handles. Shown as samples before you choose.
Edge banding
Machine-pressed PVC or ABS on every exposed edge, including the ones you cannot see once the unit is fitted. An unbanded edge in a kitchen draws water in and swells within two monsoons — it is the most common reason a two-year-old kitchen looks ten.
Finishes
1 mm laminate, acrylic, PU, natural veneer and membrane press — shown to you as physical samples in the shop, never as a picture on a screen. Colour on a phone is not colour in your kitchen.
Ask any other shop in Siwan to name the board grade and the hardware brand on their quotation.
That single question tells you what you are actually buying, and it costs you nothing to ask. We put it in writing before you ask.
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