RE: [GBlist] "Green" kitchen cabs

["Liz Fedesna" <fedesna@mcmarchitects.com>]

I haven't been following this discussion so I'm not sure if this has been
suggested yet...

check out Neil Kelly Cabinets.  They offer wheat board and prices range from
moderate to high depending on the line selected.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sandra Leibowitz [mailto:sleibowitz@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 5:34 PM
To: greenbuilding@crest.org
Subject: RE: [GBlist] "Green" kitchen cabs


I think the point here is that using "wheatboard" (by which, I assume most
people mean the
Isobord brand of straw fiberboard as it has been the most widely available)
means building
custom cabinetry which, in my world, is an out-of-the question issue for
affordable housing.  I
have not even seen this done on market-rate apartments or condos.

Urea-formaldehyde-free composite board products is one of 4 points available
under the LEED
"Low-Emitting Materials" Credit.  For residential projects there's always
cabinets and
countertops to worry about and, as far as I've seen, there are no
off-the-shelf unit cabinets
made from urea-formaldehyde-free materials--I'd love to be corrected if I'm
wrong about that.

What's out there now that I know of (without going custom) are:

   * Built-to-order cabinets from Neil Kelly Signature Cabinets "Naturals
Collection"
     http://www.neilkelly.com/cabinets/index.htm made with wheatboard (which
you are not likely
     to use for affordable housing, especially if you have to ship it from
the West Coast to
     the East!).
   * Low-urea-formaldehyde content (ie-European standards which are 6 times
stricter than ours)
     wood-fiber "frameless" cabinets from IKEA, which is what I have and
which has definite
     space-usage advantages over North American "framed" cabinet
construction anyway.

> From: Brenda Norman <bnorman@ceiarchitecture.com>
> Wheatboard is not prohibitively expensive.  When bought in individual
> sheets, wheatboard (isobord) is slightly more expensive than K3 ($20 vs
> $18.50CAN) and less expensive than medite ($27CAN), when bought by the
> pallet it is ~ 20% less expensive than K3 (as per Goodfellows Inc.).

> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Ralph Bicknese [SMTP:ralph.bicknese@christnerinc.com]
> The cost of wheat board tends to be prohibitive for low budget projects.


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