Swingman wrote:
On 2/1/2016 10:27 PM, Leon wrote:

I think you better reword that. LOL

Most residential construction sites use prefab and the drawers and
slides are already in the cabinets when they are delivered.

Not all new homes being built today are cookie cutter "tract" homes; and
certainly not all those use pre-fab cabinets.

Granted but I believe the trend has been headed that way for quite some
time in other than totally custom built homes or in our case, when upper
end remodeling. Perry homes has been better cookie cutter and still
offered job site built cabinets up until about 10 years ago.

Out where I live I would venture to say the vast majority of the homes
built in the last 20 years had prefab including the homes approaching $1M.



Although the trend to further cut costs by using pre-fabs (versus
built-ins or custom cabinets) has certainly grown since the bust of 2008
in the "spec" home market, pre-fabs, being particularly suited to
"cookie cutter" constructions methods, are still rarely seen in "spec"
homes; and even more rarely in "custom" homes.

Understood and agreed but I highly suspect that the homers you are
referencing are a much smaller percentage of what is being built since the
70's.



Even then, it is evident that the cabinetry in _most_ homes in existence
in most parts of the country today are not prefabs, but most likely to
be onsite built-ins, which almost always require component installation
to be done onsite.

Correct and I agree here but you mentioned to go on any residential
construction site in the country during installation of the kitchen
cabinets and you will likely see something identical in use by the trim
carpenters during drawer installation. residential home site construction
and I took that to mean new home construction.

I think we are just looking at what you said differently. Obviously we
never installed drawers in the kitchens that we did together prior to
install.



Just another reason why the modern drawer slide/cabinet hinge hardware
business has grown by leaps and bounds during the last twenty+ years.

Well the prefab cabs are certainly coming with better hardware, that is for
sure. I was a bit surprised that Colon & Reeda's new home with prefab
cabinets came with full extension side mount slides but equally surprised
that they were not soft close.



And, which makes knowing how to efficiently, and cost effectively, use
and install that type of hardware a valuable skill today.

Absolutely.




That skill being basically being the subject of the thread.