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Told what is worth fixing
If a cabinet has gone past repair we say so, because charging to patch something that needs replacing helps nobody.
Working with what you have
Cabinet repair in Louisville is about fixing the small failures that make a sound kitchen look and feel finished with.
Cabinet repair in Louisville covers doors that hang crooked or will not close, worn hinges and drawer runners, shelves that have bowed under weight, loose face frames, split panels, and bases that have swollen from a leak.
Repairs are blended in rather than left visible. New material gets stained or painted to match the run, which is usually the difference between a fix and a patch.
Most of it happens in your kitchen. Only work needing spray finishing goes back to the shop.
If a cabinet has gone past repair we say so, because charging to patch something that needs replacing helps nobody.
Most repairs happen in your kitchen without removing cabinets, so the room stays usable.
New material is stained or painted to match, so the fix disappears into the run instead of announcing itself.
Each stage is signed off before the next one starts.
We measure the room itself rather than working from the plan, because walls are rarely square and the plan is rarely what got built. Every opening gets checked.
You get a layout and a written estimate broken down by stage, so you can see what the doors cost against the boxes against the install. Free, nothing to sign.
Cabinetry is built to the measurements we took, in the wood, door style and finish you picked. Lead time depends on the scope and we tell you before you commit.
Scribed to the walls, levelled, and fixed properly. Hardware adjusted so every door and drawer sits straight before we leave.
Hinges, shelves and one swollen base are what make a sound kitchen look finished.
People whose kitchen is fundamentally fine. If the layout works, the boxes are solid and the finish is acceptable, the sensible move is to fix the specific things that have failed.
It also comes up before selling. A kitchen with three crooked doors and a swollen base under the sink reads as neglected, and putting that right costs a fraction of what buyers will knock off for it.
We look at everything first and separate what is worn from what has actually failed. Those are different problems and only one of them is worth spending on.
Then you get told plainly which cabinets are worth repairing and which are not. Where a carcass has delaminated through, we will say that replacement is the honest answer rather than quote to patch it.
Repairs are carried out in a single visit where possible, with the room masked and left clean.
Repair is labor rather than product, so it is priced by what is wrong rather than by the size of the kitchen. A handful of fixes is a small job, and it sits well below refinishing at $2,000 to $4,500 nationally.
Water damage is the one that varies most. A swollen toe kick is quick, and a base that has wicked moisture up through the sides is a rebuild of that cabinet.
Once boxes have delaminated or lost their square, repairs stop holding. At that point custom kitchen cabinets in Louisville or cabinet refacing in Louisville are the real options, depending on whether the carcasses are sound.
For the two most common repairs on their own, there is cabinet door repair & realignment and water-damaged cabinet repair. Where the finish is the tired part, cabinet refinishing in Louisville covers it, and pull-out shelves for cabinets in Louisville are often fitted at the same time. We work across the metro including cabinets in Hurstbourne and cabinets in The Highlands.
Get a free written estimate and we will look at your Louisville cabinets before quoting.
It depends on the carcass. Worn hinges, sagging shelves and a swollen toe kick are all repairable. Boxes that have delaminated through or lost their square are not, and we will say so rather than quote a patch.
Yes. New material is stained or painted to match the run, which is what separates a repair from a patch. Matches are built on offcuts of the same wood.
Yes. That is usually a worn hinge or a screw that has lost its grip in the frame, and adjusting it alone will not hold. The fix is a new hinge or a plugged and redrilled hole.
It is priced by what is wrong rather than by the size of the kitchen, since it is labor rather than product. A handful of fixes sits well below refinishing, which runs $2,000 to $4,500 nationally.
We stay inside about 20 miles of Louisville, close enough to measure, template and install without the schedule slipping. These are the areas we cover most often.
Tell us the room and what you want out of it. You get a written estimate broken down by stage, free, with nothing to sign.