Cabinet installation cost in Tampa, FL.
The market averages are on this page, with their source. They are not our quote. A cabinet installation cost without a walkthrough is a guess, and a guess is what moves later. What we can give you is better. The 3 questions that put any cabinet job in a range, and what a low bid is quietly cutting.
Priced by written scope, never by the hour.
What a low cabinet bid is actually cutting.
Two quotes for the same cabinets come in far apart. The cheap one is not magic. It left things out, and you find them later as extras. Here is what to look for in any quote, including ours.
Taking the old ones out
The old vanity or the old uppers have to come off the wall. The wall behind them is never clean. Holes, torn paper, an old bead of caulk an inch thick. A low bid starts with a clean wall it does not have. Ask who patches the wall and who hauls the old boxes.
Leveling and scribing
Setting a box on a level floor against a flat wall takes an hour. Setting it on a Tampa floor takes shims, a scribe line and a cut filler on each side. A low bid prices the first one and installs the second. Ask how the gaps get closed.
The plumber and the electrician
A vanity means a plumber reconnects the drain and the supplies. An outlet inside a cabinet means an electrician. Both are licensed trades and both are their own line. A low bid leaves them out and lets you find out on install day. Ask who is named for each.
Fillers, trim and the top
Crown on the uppers, a toe kick, the filler between a box and a wall. A countertop on the laundry run. None of it is in the box price. A low bid sells the boxes and stops. Ask what closes the last inch.
The 3 questions that put you in a range.
The market averages on this page are a starting point, not a promise. But 3 questions decide where any cabinet job lands. You can answer them before you call.
How many feet of cabinet, and stock or custom?
Cabinets are priced by the running foot and by what the box is made of. A stock box from a store is at the bottom. A built-to-fit box with plywood sides is at the top. Measure the wall before you compare quotes.
Is there water or power in it?
A vanity has a drain. A laundry has a sink and a washer box. A media wall has outlets and a cable. Each one adds a licensed trade and its own line. A run of shelves with no water and no power is the cheapest cabinet job there is.
What is the wall and the floor like?
Flat drywall on studs is the easy case. Bare block, old plaster, a floor that runs downhill or a corner out of square all add time. Cheap to see on a walkthrough. Expensive to find on install day.
The fourth question, which is ours
What is behind the old cabinet. Water damage under a vanity, a wall that was never finished behind old uppers, a dryer vent that goes nowhere. We cannot answer it from your kitchen table. We can answer it at the walkthrough. That is why our number comes after we have seen the wall.
What homeowners pay for cabinet installation, on average.
These are national market averages from HomeGuide, 2026 prices. There is no Tampa page for this job, so these are the widest numbers on the site. They are not our quote. They show where most cabinet jobs land before anyone has seen your wall.
By the foot and by the box
$150 to $500 per linear foot installed, and $250 to $600 per cabinet box installed, by HomeGuide's data. The low end is a stock box on a good wall. The high end is a custom box, leveled and trimmed.
A bathroom
$400 to $4,000 for cabinets in a bathroom, which is mostly the vanity. A vanity alone runs $400 to $4,000 with the unit, and the labor part of it is $100 to $1,000. Plumbing is what moves it inside that range.
A kitchen, for comparison
$4,500 to $15,000 to install cabinets in a kitchen. A laundry run or a built-in wall is a small kitchen by the foot. Count the feet, and the kitchen number tells you roughly where you are.
A built-in wall with doors, shelves and trim lands above the top of the per-foot range. Most of it is custom. A stock vanity swapped in the same spot lands near the bottom. The 3 questions above tell you which way yours leans. Your written number comes after the walkthrough.
Sources: HomeGuide, cabinet installation cost, 2026 prices. HomeGuide, bathroom vanity installation cost, 2026 prices. Market figures, not a Maplex quote.
What happens before the first box goes up.
The price is written before the work starts. These are the things that get settled first, because they are what make the number hold.
A walkthrough of the real wall
We measure the run, check the wall for flat and the floor for level, and find the studs. We look at where the drain, the supplies and the outlets are. It takes an hour. Everything in the scope comes from that, not from a photo.
The boxes chosen, with the sizes on paper
Stock or custom, the finish, the door style and every box size written down. Fillers and trim listed. What is not in the drawing is not in the job, and that is what keeps the price from moving.
The plumber and the electrician named
If a drain or an outlet is part of it, the licensed trade for it is named in the scope. It gets its own line. You know who is doing what before anyone shows up.
A written scope, line by line
Removal, wall repair, the boxes, the leveling, the trim and the hardware. What is in, what is not. The not in list is the honest part. It is what keeps the price from moving later.
One closed price, with milestones
One number for the written scope. Payments are tied to stages you can see. Signing, boxes delivered, boxes set, final walkthrough. You pay for what exists on the wall. Nobody pays for a promise.
What is included, and where it ends.
Every cabinet scope on this site says where it stops. These are the boundaries we put in writing before anyone starts.
How long the room is a job site.
Most cabinet jobs outside the kitchen run 1 to 5 days of work once the boxes are on site. A vanity swap is one day. A laundry run with uppers, a counter and a sink is two or three. A built-in wall with trim is the long end. Lead time for the boxes comes first, and the maker sets that clock, not us. Your scope has the dates.
When we tell you not to do it
A cabinet job is sold as a quick upgrade. Usually it is. Sometimes the wall or the room makes it a bad idea, and nobody says so until the boxes are bought. Here is where we say no, and why.
The wall is wet or soft
Water under an old vanity, a stain behind old uppers, drywall that gives under a thumb. A new cabinet over a wet wall hides the problem and rots from behind. We fix the wall first, or we do not hang the box.
The box was not built for the room
A particleboard cabinet in a Tampa garage swells inside a year. A cheap laundry upper over a dryer does the same. If the box you picked cannot live in the room, we say so before you buy it. And we tell you what can.
The drain is in the wrong place for the vanity
A vanity with drawers needs the drain where the drawers are not. Moving a drain is a plumber's job and its own line. If the vanity you like fights the wall, we tell you before the order, not after.
The cabinets are fine and the color is not
If the boxes are solid and square, replacing them is money spent twice. We send you to cabinet painting or new doors. We would rather do the smaller job than sell you the bigger one.
Lifetime warranty on our workmanship.
If the work we did fails, we come back and fix it. That holds for as long as you own the home. On a cabinet job it covers what we set and finished. The boxes staying level and tight to the wall, the doors, the trim and the anchors.
A warranty is only worth what its exclusions say. Ours are above, in the same size type as the promise. Ask whoever you are talking to how long theirs runs, and get the number in writing.
Questions we actually get asked
Is the range on this page my price?
No. It is a national market average from a public source, with its date. It tells you what most people paid. It cannot see your wall, your floor or your drain. We give you a number after the walkthrough. It is a real one, and it holds.
Why is there no Tampa number for cabinets?
Because the public sources do not publish one for this job. The bathroom, kitchen and painting pages on this site use Tampa data. For cabinets the widest honest number is the national one, and we say so instead of making one up.
Do you charge by the hour?
Never. Every cabinet job is priced by written scope. An hourly price gives you no number to plan around, and nobody a reason to finish.
What makes the price go up after signing?
Only a change you ask for, or hidden damage we could not see. A change is priced in writing before it happens. Hidden damage is priced only after it is visible. Nothing else moves the number.
Do I need a permit to install cabinets?
Cabinets alone, no. Hanging boxes on a wall is not permitted work. If a drain, a vent or a circuit moves, that part is the licensed trade's work. That trade pulls its own permit. It is named in your scope with the fee as its own line, at cost.
Can I buy the cabinets myself?
Yes. Many people do. We measure first, you order from the drawing, and we install what arrives. The scope says what happens if a box comes damaged or the wrong size. The maker's warranty stays yours.
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Where we work
Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Manatee and Sarasota counties. If your town is not on this list, call and ask: the answer is often yes.
A walkthrough, then a written scope with one closed price.
Never hourly, never a verbal figure, and our workmanship carries a lifetime warranty. Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Manatee and Sarasota counties.