Kitchen – Holy Crap
So, our kitchen got damaged in the big storms that hit Brisbane in November 08. I called our insurer while the water was still leaking through the ceiling and running down through our kitchen cabinets and started the claim.
Seeing that we weren’t that bad off in comparison with The Gap residents, Glen and I haven’t been in that big of a rush to get our kitchen fixed. So I can understand how I’ve set us up for this…
I can totally understand that this is partly our fault. We haven’t been chasing up our insurer or anything, it’s just been something that we’ve been thinking will happen eventually.
Our insurer has called us this week to see how the kitchen is going. I said that the new kitchen wasn’t even in. We had a guy come around to talk about what we wanted to change and they want an extra $8 000 on top of what the insurer is going to give them. Our insurer and this kitchen guy won’t tell us how much the insurer is giving the kitchen makers. Glen and I think that this is a bit excessive because there really isn’t that much that we are changing… Really…
So the insurer said for us to get another quote so that they could compare the quotes. I was like “Sure, I’ll get the guy who did our last kitchen. They were awesome and beat every other quote by $5 000.” I got the quote today from my ‘mate’ – $18 000+ – FARK!!
I sent the fax into the insurer… We’ll see what happens… Our kitchen is big – maybe that’s why it’s so much…