Would you buy from an insolvent kitchen manufacturer?

Well, I waited 1 year for a kitchen front, even with support from a lawyer we were kept waiting by the manufacturer "Nolte". The deadlines we set could not be met by the manufacturer; the reasons given were holiday time and that a different series is currently being produced and a conversion of the machines is not possible. In the meantime, they simply delivered defective parts, presumably to generate new deadlines. Compensation was refused by the seller "xxxl chain" because the kitchen is fully usable and there are only cosmetic defects.

That is of course bitter. But as I said, we haven’t signed anything yet, we still have until the beginning of 2018 and can therefore observe. Hopefully everything will settle again. So far, the kitchen is exactly as we wanted it. I would like to avoid going through all of this again with a new manufacturer and finding alternative solutions.

I wouldn't risk it. If you count on it and 4 weeks before installation it turns out there is nothing left, you have a problem and have to switch completely to Ikea or something. Our Schüller, for example, has a delivery time of 14 weeks.

The example of Tomtom clearly shows that there is a difference between being right and getting what is rightfully yours. As already mentioned in the discussion about the deposit, the disappearance of the deposit may be the problem of the kitchen studio, but in practice, you will rarely get a call like "The manufacturer is insolvent and the €5000 deposit is tied up in the insolvency estate and will probably never be seen again. But that's our problem, the transfer to you has already been initiated." Then you can run after it for years with a lawyer and others (costs + time) and end up moving in, especially without a kitchen. Since you now know exactly what you want, take the plan under your arm and go to the next studio. With 1-2 days of effort, it’s done.

I also think that you can plan an equivalent kitchen with many other manufacturers (e.g. Häcker, Schüller, Ballerina or Leicht). So why take an unnecessary risk?

Best regards
Sabine

Quite simply: some cabinet variants are not available there. Only a few, for example, have a pantry cabinet like Alno. I believe KH Küchen has something like that. I don't know of any others off the top of my head.