Newly Available to Appliance Dealers and Installers: Ultra-Flexible Custom Built-In Appliance Trim Kits

Appliance Dealers and Installers See the Dollars and Sense in Custom Trim Kits

(PRWEB) November 13, 2008 -- California-based manufacturer Micro-Trim is announcing the availability of custom built-in appliance trim kits that offer maximum flexibility and profitability for the sale and installation of built-in appliances into residential and commercial kitchens.

"We used to be very limited in what we could sell for an existing cutout in a kitchen," said Mark Lafferty, Vice President for Sales at Lafferty's Appliance in Texarkana, Texas. "For replacement you had to go to the particular model or style of what was in there before. It may not have been what they wanted. We had to deviate from what the customer wanted to what would fit the space, and it really did limit our profit potential."

As a result, a growing number of built-in appliance dealers are discovering a solution in the form of custom trim kits that allow them the flexibility to offer homeowners the appliances that will really suits their remodeling objectives.

"Custom trim kits allow me to expand the offerings to my customer, which makes me more money," said David Watson, outside sales rep for Kiva Kitchen and Bath in Los Angeles, who has been relying on custom trim kits for a number of years. "It also saves my customers a ton of money from having to have cabinets and counters re-cut, and hiring people to do that. It saves them hundreds of dollars in many cases and that makes me look good and creates more sales in the long run."

"You can sell a wider variety of product lines to fit any application," Lafferty agrees. "That's what custom trim kits basically offer: a complete array of adjustability. If a customer wants a particular model of kitchen appliance and it's anywhere close to the size of the hole, we can now do it."

Both Watson and Lafferty utilize custom trim kits from Santa Ana, Calif.-based Micro-Trim. Since 1983, Micro-Trim has focused solely on standard and custom trim kits for residential and commercial kitchen remodeling projects.

"Manufacturers provide trim kits to help their appliances fit existing spaces--but these have yielded varying results. "Manufacturers' trim kits are determined on the manufacturers' specifications, not what the consumer has in their home," said Jeannie Marie Alcantor, sales rep for Friedmans Appliance in Pleasant Hill, California. "And not what the consumer might have in terms of cabinetry adjacent to their built-in appliance. So most of the time they don't work for you."

For more information about custom trim kits, contact Micro-Trim at (800) 338-8746 or at www.microtrim.com.

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