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Laminate Benchtop Costs in South Australia

Laminate benchtops run $150 to $400 per square metre supplied and installed across South Australia, which puts a standard five to seven square metre kitchen at $1,200 to $3,500. Granite for the same kitchen runs $3,500 to $8,000 and porcelain $5,000 to $12,000. The saving on a typical job is therefore several thousand dollars, not a few hundred. That difference is the entire case for the material, and whether it is the right call depends on what else in your home needs that money more than the benchtop does.

The reputation problem is real and worth addressing directly rather than tiptoeing around. Plenty of people carry an impression formed by kitchens fitted in the 1980s and 1990s. Patterns were unconvincing then, edges were obviously plastic, and every bench had a visible dark line running along its front. Current ranges from Laminex, Polytec and Formica are a different product entirely, with textured surfaces that feel like the stone or timber they imitate instead of merely looking like it from across the room.

What has not changed is what laminate does badly, and this page will not pretend otherwise. It cannot take a hot pan under any circumstances.

A chip in the surface cannot be repaired convincingly, and water reaching the board underneath causes damage that cannot be reversed at all. Those three limitations decide whether the material suits your household far more than any question of appearance does.

Where laminate makes obvious sense is on a rental, an investment property or a house you intend to sell within a few years. It also fits a kitchen where the budget does more good somewhere else, whether that is cabinetry, appliances or flooring. A household that does not cook the way stone assumes is another candidate. So is a laundry or a secondary bench that nobody looks at closely, as covered under laundry benchtops.

There is one South Australian argument for laminate that almost never gets made. Reactive clay soils across much of metropolitan Adelaide lift and settle houses through the seasons. That movement is the leading cause of stone benchtops cracking at a cutout corner in this state, and it is not a rare problem. Laminate flexes slightly with the movement instead of resisting it, which makes it the more forgiving surface in a house that visibly shifts.

The engineered stone prohibition also changed the landscape for this material. Quartz cannot be manufactured, supplied or installed anywhere in Australia since 1 July 2024, with enforcement in this state sitting with SafeWork SA. Laminate is entirely unaffected by any of it. It contains no crystalline silica and generates no hazardous dust when cut, and it picked up a share of the mid market that had defaulted to quartz for two decades. Granite took the larger share, as covered under granite benchtops.

What follows covers how laminate is built and why the board matters more than the sheet. It then works through edge profiles, joins and the sink cutout, what the material does badly, and the five situations where it beats stone in this state.

The last part deals with current finishes, what changed after the prohibition, and pricing across South Australia. The full material comparison sits under benchtops, and the fitting process under kitchen benchtop installation.

How Laminate Is Actually Built

A laminate benchtop is two things bonded together, and only one of them is actually the laminate. The visible surface is a thin sheet of decorative paper printed with the pattern, sitting over several layers of tough backing paper. The whole stack is saturated in resin and pressed under high heat and pressure until it fuses into a single hard sheet a fraction of a millimetre thick. That sheet is what you see and touch, and it is remarkably durable for something so thin.

Underneath that sheet sits a board, and the board is what determines how long the benchtop lasts. It is usually particleboard or a fibreboard, and it carries all of the structural work. It is also the component that fails when water gets to it, which is how almost every laminate benchtop eventually dies. Buyers spend their time choosing patterns and almost none asking about the board, which is exactly the wrong way round.

Check the thickness against your existing splashback too, since a change from thirty three to thirty eight millimetres shifts where the tiles meet the bench. Ask specifically whether the board is a moisture resistant grade. These are made with additives that slow water absorption, and they are commonly tinted green so you can identify one on sight. They cost only a little more than a standard board. In a kitchen or a laundry that small premium is well worth paying, and it is one of the few real upgrades available in this material.

The surface sheet itself is tough for something so thin. It resists scratching from cutlery and general use far better than people expect, does not stain from ordinary kitchen spills, and unlike natural stone needs no sealing at any point in its life. Acids that would etch marble permanently do nothing to it whatsoever, which matters more in this state than most.

Thickness is usually thirty three or thirty eight millimetres in Australian kitchens, though thinner and thicker options exist. That figure matters most on a replacement.

Matching the original thickness determines whether your existing splashback tiles still meet the new bench cleanly, which can save a retiling job costing more than the benchtop difference. The full picture sits under benchtop replacement.

Benchtops are supplied either as standard lengths cut to size or made to order from your own measurements. A standard length cut down is quicker and cheaper, and it covers most simple layouts. A made to order top allows non standard depths, shaped ends and specific edge treatments. The difference in cost between the two is smaller than most people assume, so it is worth pricing both.

None of this involves stone, silica or the resin binders that prompted the engineered stone prohibition. Cutting laminate produces ordinary wood dust instead of respirable crystalline silica. That is why a cabinet maker can cut and fit it in your kitchen, while a stonemason cannot do anything comparable with granite without water suppression and extraction.

Edge Profiles and Why They Matter

The edge is where laminate either reads as a considered choice or announces itself as the cheap option. It costs very little to get right, which makes it the best value decision in the whole specification. It is also the detail that dates a kitchen fastest, since edge fashions shift more visibly than colours do.

A square edge with a matching strip applied to the front is the current standard and the cleanest looking option. The strip is bonded to the exposed edge in the same pattern as the surface. On a well made bench the junction between the two is barely visible. What you get is a crisp modern line that suits contemporary cabinetry and reads as deliberate.

A rolled or curved front edge is formed by wrapping the laminate sheet around a shaped profile, so there is no join at the front at all. It costs more because the sheet has to be heated and formed around that curve instead of simply cut.

The real advantage is practical. Water running off the front has no seam to find its way into, which matters a great deal in the metre either side of a sink.

The old profile people remember, with a visible dark line running along the front edge, is the one that dates a kitchen instantly. It comes from a strip applied so that a contrasting core shows at the join. That detail still exists in the cheapest options on the market. There is no reason at all to accept it in 2026, and asking the question costs nothing.

Edge strips on the exposed ends of a run are worth asking about specifically. A benchtop finishing tight against a wall needs nothing at all. Any end that is visible, or that a person walks past daily, needs finishing properly with a matching strip. An unfinished end exposing raw board is both unsightly and a place water will eventually get in.

Some ranges offer thicker apparent edges by building up the front, which gives the visual weight of a chunky stone benchtop at laminate prices. Whether that reads well depends on the pattern you have chosen.

A heavy edge on a convincing stone reproduction works, because thick stone is what the eye expects. The same edge on an obvious solid colour looks odd, since no material is made that way.

Ask to handle a sample of the actual edge treatment instead of looking at a diagram. Five seconds with a physical sample tells you more about how a bench will feel under your hand every day than any amount of showroom photography.

Joins and the Sink Cutout

Every laminate benchtop fails eventually at a join or a cutout, and almost never in the middle of an open run. Understanding those two details is therefore the most useful thing a buyer can do before ordering. It is where a good installer earns the difference between ten years of service and twenty, and it costs them almost nothing in materials to do properly.

Joins occur wherever two lengths of benchtop meet, most commonly at an internal corner where two runs come together. That corner is also the wettest part of most kitchens after the sink itself. The best possible outcome on any layout is no join at all. Always ask whether your layout can be cut from a single length, since a small change to one run sometimes makes that possible and costs nothing to consider.

Where a join is unavoidable there are two approaches to it. A metal strip laid across the junction is the cheaper and older method, and it is what most 1990s kitchens used. It works perfectly well, though it catches crumbs and is visible from across the room. A made mitred join is cut at an angle and drawn together with connecting bolts underneath the bench. That produces a junction you have to look for rather than one that announces itself.

Whichever method is used, the cut edges inside the join must be sealed before the pieces are drawn together. That sealant is the only thing standing between spilled water and the board underneath. A join assembled without it will swell within a few years regardless of how neatly it was cut. This is invisible once the bench is installed, which is exactly why it needs asking about beforehand.

The sink cutout is the single most important detail on the whole benchtop. Cutting the hole exposes raw board around its entire perimeter. That exposed edge then sits directly beneath the one part of the bench where water pools every single day for twenty years.

A properly sealed cutout has that raw edge coated thoroughly before the sink goes anywhere near it. The usual method is a waterproof sealant applied so it soaks into the board, not merely skimming the surface.

Ask any installer directly how they seal cutout edges, because the answer separates the careful from the quick. It costs almost nothing in materials, so a reluctance to explain it is telling.

Undermount sinks are generally not suitable with laminate, which surprises people coming from stone. Bonding a sink beneath a laminate top leaves the cut edge permanently exposed to water, which is precisely the situation to avoid. Drop in sinks with a rim resting on the surface are the sensible choice here, with that rim sealed to the bench. The rim collects a little residue, and that is the trade off.

The same logic applies to any tap hole and to the junction where the bench meets the wall. A neat bead of sealant along the back edge stops water running behind the bench and into the cabinetry. It is worth inspecting every year or two and renewing as soon as it starts to lift, which is a five minute job that prevents an unrepairable one.

What Laminate Does Badly

Three limitations decide whether laminate is right for a household, and none of them can be designed around or mitigated. Being clear about all three before ordering prevents most of the disappointment that gives this material its reputation. None of them is a secret, though they are rarely volunteered.

Heat is the first and the most serious of the three. A hot pan placed directly on laminate leaves a permanent scorch mark, sometimes within seconds. There is no repair for it beyond replacing that section of bench. The real test is not whether you own a trivet, but whether every person in the household, including guests and children, will use one every single time under pressure.

Edges and corners take the most damage in practice, since that is where a dropped pot or a shopping bag makes contact. Chips are the second limitation, and they cannot be filled convincingly. The pattern is printed on a thin paper layer rather than running through the material, so there is no way to reproduce it in a filler. A chipped edge therefore stays visibly chipped for the life of the bench. Compare that with granite, where a chip is filled with colour matched resin and polished back for $150 to $300 and largely disappears into the pattern, as covered under benchtop repairs.

Water is the third limitation and it causes more failures than the other two put together. Almost every laminate benchtop that gets replaced early is replaced because of it. Moisture reaches the board through an unsealed cutout edge, a failed join or a lifted sealant bead at the wall. Once it does, the board swells irreversibly. It cannot be dried back, sanded flat or repaired in any way, and the swollen area only spreads outward from there.

Deep scratches and cuts are a lesser problem but worth mentioning. The surface resists ordinary wear well and shrugs off everyday use.

A knife used directly on the bench will eventually cut through the thin decorative layer to the darker material beneath, and that mark is permanent. A chopping board solves it entirely.

Resale perception is a real consideration in some parts of Adelaide and irrelevant in others. A buyer inspecting a renovated character home through the inner east may read laminate as something needing replacement, and price accordingly. The same benchtop in a well presented northern or southern suburbs family home reads as entirely normal. Know which market your house sits in before deciding.

Set your expectation on lifespan at ten to twenty years with careful use and good installation. That is a respectable figure, and where you land depends far more on how the cutout and joins were sealed than on how expensive the range was.

Where those limitations rule laminate out but budget is still the constraint, timber and granite are the two materials worth pricing next. Timber costs more but sands back to new repeatedly, as covered under timber benchtops. Granite costs more again and asks nothing beyond occasional sealing, with detail under granite benchtops.

Where Laminate Beats Stone in South Australia

This section makes the case that rarely gets made for this material. There are situations in an Adelaide home where laminate is the better choice, not merely the cheaper one, and five of them are worth knowing about.

Ground movement is the first and it is specific to this state. Large parts of metropolitan Adelaide sit on highly reactive clay soils that swell with moisture and shrink as they dry out. Sites are classified from stable through to extremely reactive under the Australian Standard for residential slabs and footings, published by Standards Australia. Stone carries load well but has almost no give in it, which is precisely the wrong combination when the ground beneath is moving. Fix a rigid slab over cabinetry that shifts and the stress gathers at the weakest point in the sheet. On any benchtop that point is the internal corner of a sink or cooktop opening.

Laminate has no equivalent failure mode. The board flexes slightly rather than resisting the movement beneath it. A house that visibly shifts through the seasons is therefore a house where laminate can outlive the more expensive alternative. Anyone whose internal doors bind in one season and swing freely in another should weigh that seriously instead of dismissing it.

Hard water is the second South Australian factor and laminate is immune to the damage it causes. Supplies here carry more dissolved calcium and magnesium than the eastern capitals, with figures published by SA Water, and the visible scale that leaves prompts households to reach for acidic descalers. Those products strip sealers from natural stone and etch marble permanently, while laminate needs no sealer and does not etch at all.

Regional access is the third and it is a real practical advantage. Stone fabrication is concentrated in metropolitan Adelaide.

A granite kitchen in Port Lincoln or Mount Gambier therefore carries two long trips from the city and weeks of waiting between them. Laminate can be supplied and fitted by a local cabinet maker in most larger regional centres, with no metropolitan involvement at all.

Speed is the fourth advantage, and most people underrate it until they are living through the job. A laminate benchtop can often be measured and fitted within a week or two. A stone replacement puts two to four weeks between removal and installation with no working kitchen sink for the whole of it. If you are living in the house throughout, that difference matters more than almost anything else on this list.

Small pieces are the fifth and the arithmetic here is stark. A laundry or vanity top in laminate costs $250 to $700 all in. The same piece in stone faces a practical minimum near $2,000, because the slab, the templating visit and the installation crew cost the same whether the piece is large or small. Laundry applications are covered under laundry benchtops and vanities under bathroom benchtops.

None of this makes laminate the right answer for a household that cooks seriously and intends to stay twenty years. Heat alone rules it out in plenty of kitchens. It does mean the decision deserves more thought than assuming stone is automatically better, particularly in a house that moves with the seasons.

Colours, Patterns and Finishes

The pattern range available in 2026 is the part of modern laminate that most surprises people who have not looked in a decade. Stone reproductions are the largest category by some margin. Marble, granite and concrete effects now hold up at conversational distance instead of only in photographs, which was not true of earlier generations.

Texture is what changed most, and it is worth understanding before you dismiss the material. Current premium ranges emboss the surface so it physically matches the pattern printed on it.

A stone reproduction therefore has the subtle irregularity of stone under your hand rather than feeling like a smooth printed sheet. That single development is why modern laminate no longer reads as an imitation at close range.

Matte finishes have largely replaced gloss in current kitchens, and they are the more practical choice as well as the more fashionable one. A matte surface hides fingerprints, water spots and light scratching considerably better than high gloss does. That difference matters most on a dark colour, where a gloss finish shows every mark within an hour of being cleaned.

Dark solid colours look excellent on the day of installation and show everything afterwards, which is why display kitchens are photographed before anyone has used them. Fingerprints, dust, crumbs and water marks are all clearly visible on a dark plain surface. On a patterned one the eye simply does not register them. That is worth knowing before choosing charcoal or black for a family kitchen.

Timber reproductions have improved markedly and suit an island or a breakfast bar particularly well. They give much of the visual warmth while avoiding the oiling cycle that real timber demands once or twice a year. What they do not do is develop the character genuine timber acquires across decades of use, since the pattern is fixed the day it is printed.

Mixing laminate with another material is worth considering rather than dismissing out of hand. A laminate perimeter with a stone island costs a fraction of a full stone kitchen. It also puts the expensive material exactly where people stand and look, which is the island rather than the run behind the cooktop. That reads as a deliberate arrangement, not a compromise, and it is covered under kitchen benchtops.

Lead times are short compared with stone, at one to three weeks for most made to order tops and sometimes days for a standard length cut down. Order samples and live with them at home for a few days rather than deciding in a showroom.

Adelaide light is strong and directional. A colour that looks warm under showroom lighting can read quite differently in a west facing kitchen at four in the afternoon, and differently again on an overcast winter morning.

Laminate After the Engineered Stone Ban

A national prohibition took effect on 1 July 2024, ending the manufacture, supply, processing and installation of engineered stone in every state and territory. Every quartz brand falls within it, including Caesarstone, Smartstone, Essastone, Quantum Quartz and Silestone. The crystalline silica content of a particular product makes no difference to whether it is caught.

What drove the decision was disease among the workers cutting it, instead of any hazard to the households living with it. Cutting and grinding released very high concentrations of respirable crystalline silica into workshop air. Silicosis rates among Australian stonemasons climbed to a point regulators judged could no longer be managed by control measures alone.

Laminate sits outside all of that. It contains no crystalline silica at all. Cutting it produces ordinary wood dust rather than a respiratory hazard, and nothing about its manufacture, supply or installation was affected by the prohibition in any way whatsoever.

The practical effect was that laminate picked up a share of a market that had defaulted to quartz for roughly two decades. Households wanting a stone appearance at a mid market price found their usual answer had disappeared. Granite absorbed most of that demand at a similar price point. Laminate at roughly a quarter of the cost became a serious option again instead of an obvious compromise, particularly where the money was needed elsewhere.

If your existing benchtop is quartz, your position is worth understanding clearly. It remains entirely lawful and there is no removal deadline, with none proposed by any regulator. It also poses no risk to your household, because the hazard was always dust created by cutting in a workshop rather than anything an installed and sealed surface gives off.

What you cannot do is have it extended or matched, because no new quartz can be cut for any purpose at all. Moving a wall, adding an island or replacing a run damaged beyond repair therefore means the whole benchtop comes out. It goes back in a different material, and laminate is one of the options on that list. The full position for quartz owners sits under stone benchtops.

An offer to supply or install engineered stone should end the conversation instead of tempt you. The business making it is breaking the law rather than taking a commercial gamble, and that says plenty about how they will approach the rest of your job.

What Affects the Cost

The range you choose sets the band, and the spread within laminate alone is wider than people expect. A plain solid colour from a standard collection and a deeply textured stone reproduction from a premium collection can differ by more than double. The fabrication and installation labour behind both is identical, so that gap is purely the sheet.

Edge treatment is the next largest factor and the one most worth spending money on. A square edge with a matching strip is the standard inclusion and costs nothing extra. A formed rolled edge or a built up thicker front adds both material and machine time at every lineal metre of bench.

Joins add labour and future risk in equal measure. Each one takes time to cut accurately, seal and draw together with connecting hardware. A layout fitting within a single length is therefore both cheaper to make and longer lasting in service, which is a rare combination.

Cutouts run $80 to $180 each and accumulate quietly across a kitchen. A sink, a cooktop and a set of tap holes together add a few hundred dollars to the total, and complex or curved shapes cost more than straight ones.

The board grade matters and is the one upgrade to pay for every time. A supplier who cannot tell you what board they use on the phone is unlikely to have thought about it.

A moisture resistant board costs a little more than a standard one and materially extends the life of the bench in any kitchen or laundry. It is one of the few real upgrades available in this material, and it is invisible once installed.

Removal, plumbing and splashback work sit outside a supply and install quote as a rule, and each has its own trade attached as they do on any benchtop job. Expect $400 to $900 for removal of the old top, $300 to $600 for a plumber across two visits, and $500 to $2,500 where the splashback needs attention. Matching the original thickness sometimes avoids that last item entirely.

Site access and regional travel round out the picture, and laminate suffers less on both counts than stone does. The material is far lighter to carry through a house, and it is frequently fabricated locally, not trucked out from Adelaide. A narrow side passage that adds hours to a granite installation adds minutes to a laminate one. Long carries and first floor kitchens are similarly less of a problem. Workplace duties across fabrication are administered by SafeWork SA.

Laminate Benchtop Costs Across Adelaide

Rates hold steady across the metropolitan area, and the housing stock explains what variation there is. Older suburbs through the inner east and city fringe bring walls well out of square and benches that need cutting to follow them. The northern and southern growth corridors bring square rooms where a standard length drops straight in with minimal fuss. That difference shows up in labour hours rather than in the price of the sheet.

Your position in the range comes from the collection and the edge. A standard collection colour with a square edge sits at the bottom right across the metropolitan area, and a premium textured stone reproduction with a formed edge and three cutouts sits at the top everywhere.

Households in character housing through the inner east should mention the age of the home when enquiring, because scribing a bench to a wall that runs fifteen millimetres out of square over two metres takes real time and a cabinet maker who knows that in advance quotes accurately. Adelaide also has a good number of independent cabinet makers who fabricate laminate in their own workshop, which produces a better price and a better edge than a large supplier does.

Laminate Benchtop Costs in Regional SA

Laminate is the material where regional South Australians face the smallest penalty, and that is worth stating plainly rather than leaving buried. Larger centres including Mount Gambier, Whyalla, Port Lincoln, Murray Bridge, Port Augusta and Berri all support cabinet makers who fabricate and fit laminate locally. The skills involved are ordinary joinery, not specialist stone work, so the trade base is far wider.

Compare that with stone, where a regional kitchen carries a template trip and an installation trip from Adelaide. Each one has hours of driving behind it, and both appear in the price. On a laminate job the sheet is delivered and a local trade does the rest. That removes the travel charge and most of the scheduling difficulty in one step.

Ordering from a sample is reliable with laminate, and regional buyers should not underestimate what that is worth. Every sheet in a range is identical to every other. What you choose from a swatch is exactly what arrives on the truck. Granite and marble effectively require a trip to Adelaide to view actual slabs, since no two are alike.

Bore and tank water is worth factoring into the sink zone. Water through parts of the Mid North, Riverland and Eyre Peninsula can carry a heavy mineral load, and while laminate is immune to the etching that affects marble, the sealant around a cutout still needs checking periodically.

Delivery of full sheets is the one genuine regional constraint. A benchtop length is long, awkward and easily damaged in transit.

Confirm who carries the risk if a sheet arrives chipped or scratched, and settle that before ordering. Expect a modest freight charge on longer runs.

Kitchens on rural properties tend to be larger and to work a good deal harder than metropolitan ones. That pushes the heat question straight to the front of the decision. A working farmhouse kitchen where pans come off the stove constantly is exactly the situation where laminate struggles most. Granite deserves pricing alongside it in those homes, even though the freight is higher.

What to Look Out For

Find out exactly how the sink cutout will be sealed, and treat a vague answer as a warning. That single detail determines the life of the benchtop more than any other, and a proper waterproof seal on the raw edge costs almost nothing in materials.

Confirm the board grade in writing. A quote that names only the colour and the edge has left out the component that determines how long the bench lasts. A moisture resistant board is a small premium and a real improvement in any kitchen or laundry. It should be stated plainly on the quote instead of left unmentioned, and a supplier who omits it may not be supplying it.

Establish how many joins your layout needs and exactly where they fall. A join tucked beside a dishwasher will see more water than one at the far end of a run, and that placement is negotiable at design stage.

Fewer is better in every single respect, both for the price and for how long the bench lasts. It is always worth asking whether a small change to one run brings the whole job within a single length, since that costs nothing to explore.

Be clear with yourself about heat before committing to anything. Households who cook rarely are choosing well here, and households who cook constantly are usually better served elsewhere. If pans habitually come off the burner and go straight down on the bench, that single fact should probably decide your material. A scorch mark on laminate is permanent and unrepairable, and no amount of care after the event changes that.

Look at the sample under your own kitchen lighting as well as daylight, because showroom lights flatter every finish. Handle a physical sample of both the surface and the edge treatment before you order. Photographs and diagrams tell you very little about how a textured finish feels under the hand. They tell you even less about how an edge is finished. Samples cost nothing, so there is no reason to skip this.

Walk the layout with the installer before they cut, since which ends are visible is obvious in the room and easy to miss on a plan. Check that exposed ends are being finished. Any end that is visible, or that people walk past every day, needs a matching strip applied. Raw board showing at an end is both unsightly and a place water will eventually find its way in.

Ask for the range and colour code on the quote, since ordering from a photograph is how the wrong shade arrives. Get the scope in writing including removal, plumbing and any splashback work, since those three sit outside most supply and install quotes.

Where the job forms part of larger building work, contractor licensing is administered by Consumer and Business Services. Where a dispute cannot be settled with the supplier, SACAT hears building work matters, and broader consumer guidance for this state appears at sa.gov.au.

What to Look for in a Quote in SA

A laminate quote worth comparing names the brand and range and gives the specific colour or pattern code. It states the board grade and the thickness, specifies the edge treatment, and lists every cutout separately. It should also state the number and type of joins, since that affects both price and lifespan. One total for supply, fabrication, delivery and installation makes the comparison possible.

Brief every supplier identically or the numbers coming back will not compare. Send the dimensioned kitchen plan and photographs of the room as it currently stands. Include the sink and cooktop models, your preferred range and colour code, and a note on access from the street. On a replacement, add the thickness of the existing benchtop.

Ask four questions that separate a careful cabinet maker from a fast one, and listen for how readily the answers come. How will you seal the sink cutout, and what board grade are you using.

How many joins does my layout actually need, and how are the exposed ends being finished. The answers take a minute and tell you most of what you need to know.

A small workshop will also cut a spare offcut for you to test cleaning products on, which no volume supplier will bother doing. Get quotes from an independent cabinet maker as well as from a large supplier. Adelaide has a healthy number of small workshops fabricating laminate in their own premises. They frequently produce both a better price and a better edge than a volume operation manages, because the same person cuts, seals and fits the bench.

Budget the project instead of the bench, adding thirty per cent to a supply and install figure on a replacement to cover removal, plumbing and a modest splashback fix. Posting the job on The Quote Yard puts the same brief in front of several South Australian suppliers, and the installation process for laminate and timber is set out under laminate and timber benchtop installation. Your rights covering both the product and the work done are set out by the ACCC.