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04-09-2016, 10:07 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: SLO County, California
Trailer: 2014 Escape 21C 2019 Expedition
Posts: 5,210
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Originally Posted by Marry
Custom Formica fee $200-, additional $100 for finish other then -58. No cost on the Formica material.
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Watch the "other than 58"- we chose a color based on a small sample and it happened to be Radiance finish, which is a flecky kind of thing. Cost us an extra $100; would've preferred a matte finish- which is 58.
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04-10-2016, 06:46 AM
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Site Team
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Portland, Oregon
Trailer: 2014 Escape 5.0 TA
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The best advice I can pay it forward with is to tell you to order the 5"x7" samples from Formica.. they're $1 each. CHEAP compared to making a mistake. I picked out one of those business card size samples at Lowes and thought I loved it. Ordered the bigger size from Formica... and absolutely hated it. Looked like mud compared to the little size, I would have been heart broken, truly.. or at least terribly, terribly disappointed.
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04-10-2016, 07:26 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Southwick, Massachusetts
Trailer: None, sold my 2014 5.0TA
Posts: 7,124
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Thought I got a single large sample from Formica for freebies, they wanted $ for more then 1. Things may have changed,
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04-10-2016, 10:35 AM
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Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Texas Hill Country, Texas
Trailer: 2017 Escape 21'
Posts: 99
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I received numerous 5x7 samples of Formica w/o charge. I could only order four at a time. The link I used was Formica Laminate Swatches - Samples. The problem with this method is that you need some time to ensure you get them. Donna's may be a better option if you want them quickly.
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04-10-2016, 10:39 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Trailer: 2017 Escape 5.0 TA
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I too got large samples for free from various suppliers.
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04-10-2016, 10:56 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Seatac, Washington
Trailer: "The Trailer", 2nd Gen 21' & a 2017 Tundra CrewMax in Blazing Blue Pearl
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Originally Posted by vmull
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What I did was order more samples, up to the limit fairly soon after ordering the first batch. They shipped them together even. But yeah, those larger size samples were great! There were some that looked half way decent at their site or in the brochure I got from Lowe's, but in person - ick!
If you really like something, you can order multiples of the same and lay them out for an even better idea of how they'll look in the trailer. And if you go to the factory, lay 'em out so you can see how they look with the cabinet color. I hauled up one yard of our fabric, the countertop sample and the flooring sample to see how they looked against the cabinets. Winners all around!
Now I'm going through samples of the Bali blinds that I just got and ordered more. (We're going to install them ourselves after we get The Trailer.) I realized I can have different colors in each "room" of the trailer! Yay!
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04-10-2016, 11:36 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Trailer: 2013 19' & 2013 15B
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Quote:
Originally Posted by padlin
Thought I got a single large sample from Formica for freebies, they wanted $ for more then 1. Things may have changed,
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We just went to the local building supply store and looked at full sized sheets of Formica. Picked our favorite there and placed the order with ETI.
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04-10-2016, 12:19 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Trailer: 2017 Escape 5.0 TA
Posts: 15,532
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ice-breaker
We just went to the local building supply store and looked at full sized sheets of Formica. Picked our favorite there and placed the order with ETI.
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In this vein, should the local store not have full sheets in stock, most major cities will have a warehouse they can direct you to for viewing them. We have done that with customers in the past.
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2015 Ford F150 Lariat 3.5L EcoBoost
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04-10-2016, 02:02 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Trailer: 2014 Escape 21 -- The Skylark. Towed by a 2014 Highlander
Posts: 1,159
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Donna D.
The best advice I can pay it forward with is to tell you to order the 5"x7" samples from Formica.. they're $1 each. CHEAP compared to making a mistake. I picked out one of those business card size samples at Lowes and thought I loved it. Ordered the bigger size from Formica... and absolutely hated it. Looked like mud compared to the little size, I would have been heart broken, truly.. or at least terribly, terribly disappointed.
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We followed Donna's advice on the sample size. It was very helpful as we made our choices
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04-10-2016, 02:22 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Trailer: 2015 Escape 19 "Seventy Degrees"
Posts: 3,495
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If going custom, make sure you get samples. The fabric especially as several we thought we're it, were discarded quickly when the samples arrived. Both the fabric and Formica ended up being different choices when the samples hit. The flooring we were good on when the sample came, but some of the flooring samples surprised us.
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