Material Selection Session at the Showroom

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A finish chosen from a brochure is chosen twice, once on paper and again in regret. This session exists so that does not happen, and it is free because charging for it would make it a sales appointment. One hour at the A.P. Colony showroom with the materials in front of you and nothing to sign. What you actually do here is the thing a photograph cannot do for you. You look at boards cut in section, so the difference between commercial ply, a boiling water resistant board to IS 303 and a marine grade boiling water proof board to IS 710 is visible in the glue lines and the core rather than asserted in a sentence. You look for the ISI mark and the mill's stamp printed on the board face, which is the one check you can repeat on your own site the day the boards arrive and before they are cut, and which nobody can talk you out of. You press a thumbnail into an acrylic shutter and into a laminate one and find out which marks. You load a soft close drawer and slam it. You read the maker's name stamped into a hinge arm, and then look at an unbranded hinge whose arm is blank, which is exactly how a substituted hinge is spotted after installation. And you look at the same laminate under showroom light and again in daylight near the entrance, because laminates shift colour and a photograph flattens all of them equally. The cheat this session is built against is board and hardware substitution after signing. Once a board is laminated its grade is invisible, and once a hinge is screwed into a shutter nobody looks at the arm again. Knowing what to look at, before either happens, is worth more than a promise from us.

• Free. There is no paid version of this session and no obligation of any kind
• Boards shown cut in section, plus where to find the ISI mark and mill stamp on the face
• Shutter finishes you can press, scratch and wipe, in two lights
• Hinges and channels mounted and loaded, and the maker's stamp on the arm pointed out to you
• Small samples to take home, checked against your own wall and your own light, returnable in 15 days
• Not included: any design, layout, measurement, 3D view or estimate. This is materials only
• Only materials Majestic genuinely supplies are on display, so nothing shown here becomes unavailable later
• Majestic is a separately owned affiliated business. It designs and builds and does not manufacture appliances, so there is no hob, chimney or oven on display pretending to be ours