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Cabinet questions Edmonton homeowners ask
Sorted by the decision you are actually making: whether to refresh or replace, what the doors and worktops involve, and how to live with the result. Every answer here is the one we give at the kitchen table.
- Straight answers, no upsell
- Real numbers where we can give them
- Written quotes by the linear foot
Estimates & booking
Quotes, Booking and What to Expect
How pricing works, what a consultation involves, and where we work.
Yes, and no deposit is needed to book one. You get a written quote whether or not you go ahead, and we do not follow up repeatedly if the answer is no.
By the linear foot, itemised. That lets you see what each part of the run costs and drop something if the total is higher than you want, rather than being handed one number.
Edmonton and the surrounding area, including st. Albert, Sherwood Park, Leduc, Spruce Grove and Fort Saskatchewan. If you are nearby but not on that list, call and ask rather than assuming.
Yes. A single island, a bathroom vanity, a set of doors or a pantry are all normal work. Not every project has to be a whole kitchen to be worth doing properly.
A few weeks for most residential work, longer if a made-to-order finish or a stone worktop is involved. Booking the consultation early costs nothing and holds nothing.
Yes, and the details are on the estimate rather than something you have to ask for. Anything requiring a plumber or electrician is carried out by the appropriate qualified trade.
Yes. The period and what it covers are stated in writing on your estimate, and we explain both before you sign. Hardware and engineered stone also carry their manufacturer's own warranty.
A deposit may be required to secure materials and a place on the schedule, and it is stated on the estimate. Nothing is due to receive the quote itself.
Refacing & painting
Refacing, Painting and Door Fronts
The refresh routes: what each one fixes, what it costs and what it cannot do.
Refacing suits a kitchen whose layout works and whose boxes are sound. If the layout is wrong, the boxes are swollen or failing, or you want different sizes, replacement is the honest answer.
Layout, cabinet sizes, damaged or water-swollen carcasses, and interiors you dislike. Refacing changes what you see and touch, not the boxes behind it.
Usually a few days on site rather than weeks, because the boxes stay put. That is the main practical reason people choose it over a full replacement.
Often yes, depending on the substrate and how sound it is. We check that at the consultation rather than guessing, because laminate and thermofoil behave differently under new veneer.
Thermofoil is a vinyl film over a board core and paint does not bond to it reliably. Replacing the doors is usually the sounder route, and we will say so.
Generally yes, because nothing is replaced. It also changes the least: colour only, with the same doors, same profiles and same wear underneath the new finish.
A properly prepared and sprayed catalysed finish lasts years, and the failures we are called to are almost always preparation failures rather than paint failures.
Yes, that is redooring, and on a sound carcass it is the cheapest visible change you can make. New doors and drawer fronts on the existing boxes, with hinges adjusted to suit.
If some are being kept, an exact match is difficult, particularly with a wood finish. We would rather show you a sample and let you judge than promise a match we cannot make.
Custom cabinetry
Custom Cabinets, Islands and Built-Ins
New cabinetry: what it costs, how long it takes and where it is worth it.
When the room has an awkward shape, a ceiling height stock sizes waste, or a specific storage problem. In a plain rectangular kitchen with standard runs, stock or semi-custom often does the job.
Longer than refacing by a wide margin, because everything is made rather than fitted. The consultation, drawings, production and installation together run to a number of weeks, not days.
Only if the room can give it clearance. Squeezing an island into a kitchen that cannot spare the aisle makes the room worse, and we will tell you when that is the case.
Enough aisle on every side for someone to work and someone else to pass. That is the constraint that decides whether an island fits, not the floor area on the plan.
Yes, and we measure your actual appliance rather than the catalogue figure. Depths and door swings vary, and a cabinet built to an average leaves an appliance standing proud.
A pantry is mostly a depth and shelf-spacing question. Deep shelves swallow things; shallow shelves and pull-outs mean you can see everything you own without unpacking the front row.
Yes. Alcove units, media walls, window seats and home office runs are the same joinery with different dimensions, and they suit fixed-shape rooms particularly well.
Usually, if the profile and finish are still available. Where they are not, we would rather propose a deliberate contrast than attempt a near-match that reads as a mistake.
Tops & hardware
Countertops, Backsplash and Hardware
Stone choices, template timing, hinges, runners and the details you touch daily.
Quartz is non-porous and never needs sealing. Granite takes heat that would mark quartz permanently, and wants sealing every one to two years. Neither is better; they fail differently.
Yes, roughly every one to two years. The job takes about twenty minutes for a whole kitchen. Leave a pool of water half an hour: if it beads the seal is fine, if the stone darkens it wants resealing.
On granite, yes. On quartz, no, because the resin binding it is the weak point and the mark is permanent. That single difference decides a lot of kitchens.
After the cabinets are set and levelled, never before. A template taken off the old cabinets fits a kitchen that no longer exists, which is an expensive way to learn the rule.
Three to six inches is standard, with four the most common. Full height reads contemporary and costs considerably more. A frequent compromise is full height behind the hob only.
Because that wall takes hot fat rather than water, and grease settles into grout lines and stays there. Stone or large-format tile there saves you a permanent cleaning job.
They are the detail people notice every single day, and retrofitting them later costs more than specifying them now. On drawers particularly, the difference is not subtle.
Whatever your hands like, within reason. Try them before ordering: a handle that photographs beautifully and catches a pocket every morning is the wrong handle for that kitchen.
Care & materials
Materials, Care and Living With Them
Wood movement, cleaning, cure times and what normal wear looks like.
Yes, slightly and seasonally. Wood takes up and gives off moisture with the humidity of the room, so gaps and alignment change a little through the year. That is timber behaving normally.
Because grain, figure and colour vary between boards. A sample indicates what a wood looks like; it cannot promise an exact match, which is part of why real wood is worth having.
You can use the kitchen straight away, but a catalysed finish keeps hardening for a while afterwards. We give cure and care guidance on handover, and following it is a warranty condition.
A damp cloth and a mild detergent. Avoid abrasive creams, scouring pads and anything solvent-based, and dry the surface rather than leaving water sitting along a bottom edge.
Standing water, in almost every case. A leaking trap or a dishwasher seeping unnoticed will swell a carcass from the bottom up long before anything else wears out.
Yes. A bathroom is steamed twice a day and takes standing water at the front edge, so moisture-resistant board and sealed edges are worth the small extra cost.
Decades, if the carcasses are sound and the finish is maintained. Most kitchens are replaced because the layout or the look stopped suiting the household, not because the boxes failed.
If the profile and finish are still in production, yes, and this is a good reason to note both on handover. On a rental or a multi-unit building it is worth holding spares.
Sometimes, and we will say so. If the boxes are sound and the layout works, refacing or new doors gives most of the visible benefit for a fraction of a full replacement.
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Still Have a Question?
Call and ask. Most cabinet questions take two minutes to answer honestly, and the ones that do not are usually settled by someone looking at the actual kitchen.
We'll assess the cabinets and send a written quote within one business day.