🪵 Laminate Pricing Checker

Anything that is not a regular HPL sheet is always vendor-priced, whatever the colour code says — see the Formica® National Product Guide (July 2026) specialty chapters, pp.19–23.

How the pricing route is decided — company estimating

For a regular HPL sheet the tier is driven mainly by the finish suffix (the part after the dash), with two overrides: a premium design collection (Wilsonart designs ending in K) is Premium even in a standard finish, and specialty designs (Formica 180fx®, Wilsonart HD) go to vendor pricing. This tool applies exactly those rules, plus a starter name database for common designs.

Formica tiers now follow the Formica® National Product Guide, July 2026 (supplied by the user): p.4 marks every Premium texture with an X — including -90 Gloss, -42 Crystal and -MC MicroDot, which this tool previously treated as standard/check based on furniture guides. The Guide's Product Index also classifies 9529 Sea Salt as a Pattern (P), not 180fx, so 9529-58 now prices as Basic/Standard. Final tier can also depend on grade, sheet size and regional stock — confirm a Special result with the vendor, which is exactly what the vendor-price route does.

Sources used for the rules

• Wilsonart Contract Laminate guide: “Product numbers ending in -60 or -38 are standard finish/price; ending in -01, -07, -18, -52, or -78 are premium finish/price; ending in -35, -45, or -55 are High Definition.”
• Wilsonart finish list: #01, #07, #12, #16, #18, #52, #78 each “carries a premium upcharge”; #38 and #60 carry none.
• Furniture laminate pricing guides (e.g. PS Furniture): Wilsonart Standard +$0 / Premium (07, 18, 52, 78, 90) upcharge / HD higher upcharge; Formica Standard (Solid, Woodgrain, Pattern, MicroDot) +$0 / PremiumFX (Radiance, Etchings, Honed, Crystal) upcharge / 180fx higher upcharge.
• Example verified: Wilsonart 7850-60 Beigewood is listed by distributors as Laminate Type: Standard, Finish: 60-Matte.
• Standard Formica laminates in furniture guides: Grade 12 / 20 ending in -58 and -43.
• Formica® National Product Guide, July 2026 (primary Formica source): p.3 — colour codes are 5 digits, add zeros at the front (00949 = 949 White); p.4 — texture list with Premium X marks (standard: -58, -43, -00 only); pp.5–6 — grades: CC = ColorCore2, H1 = HardStop, S/P/R/F grades = Compact / fire-rated Compact, 32/50 = fire-rated; p.16 — Antimicrobial (A-suffix, “not for sale in Canada”), MicroDot / Sculpted / Crystal collections; p.17 — 180fx series list; p.19 — InDepth Surfacing (8253–8259, texture -DP, grade 13 only); pp.20–23 — Envision, HardStop, ColorCore2, Compact, Specialty Markerboard are separate specialty products.