Kitchen cabinet door replacement in Tampa Bay.
New doors on the boxes you have. The frames stay as they are. It is the cheapest way to change how a kitchen looks, and the easiest one to get wrong. A door is drilled for one overlay and one hinge. Order the wrong one and it never closes right. The whole job lives in the measuring.
Priced by written scope, never by the hour.
The overlay decides everything, and nobody explains it.
Door pages show you 200 styles. None of them explains overlay. That is the number that decides whether the new door fits your box at all. Here it is, before you order from anyone, including us.
What overlay means
Overlay is how much of the face frame the door covers. Old doors often cover half an inch. Modern full overlay doors cover almost all of it, with a small gap between doors. A door built for one overlay does not work on a box set up for the other. It hits the next door or leaves a wide gap.
Face frame or frameless
Most older Tampa Bay kitchens have face frame boxes. That is a wood frame around each opening. Frameless boxes have none. The hinge, the overlay and the door size all change between the two. Ask which one you have. If the answer is a shrug, keep looking.
The hinge holes are drilled for one hinge
Concealed hinges sit in a 35 millimeter cup bored into the back of the door. The position of that cup matches one hinge and one overlay. New doors are bored to the new hinges, not the old ones. Reusing old hinges on new doors is where gaps and rubbing come from.
Why 40 doors take a day to measure
Every opening is measured on its own, twice. Old kitchens have openings that differ by a quarter inch from their neighbor. A door ordered from one measurement fits one opening. We would rather spend the day measuring than a month waiting for a re-order.
The material decides the price. The count decides the rest.
Two kitchens can order new doors and get very different numbers. Here is what actually separates them.
What the door is made of
Thermofoil over MDF is the cheapest. Painted MDF and laminate sit in the middle. Solid wood, stained or painted, costs the most. The door is nearly the whole price of this job, so this choice moves the number more than anything.
How many doors and drawer fronts
Priced by the piece. Count yours, including drawer fronts and any false fronts at the sink. That count and the material give you a real range before anyone comes out.
New hinges, or the old ones
New concealed hinges, soft close if you want them, are a line for each door. They cost more than reusing the old hinges. They are also the reason the doors close right for years. We price both and tell you which one we would do.
Handles, pulls and the holes for them
New doors come without holes. Drilling for new hardware is part of the job. If you keep your old handles, the hole spacing has to match. The scope names the hardware and who supplies it.
What gets checked before a door is ordered.
A door ordered wrong is a door you wait for twice. So the checking comes first, and each item is written down before the order goes in.
Every opening measured twice
Width and height of each opening, and the overlay you want, written into a door schedule. The schedule goes with the order. It is the document that decides whether the doors fit.
The box checked for square
A box that has racked will never hang a door even. We check each one with a square. A box that is out gets braced, or you hear about it before the order.
The face frame checked for grease and finish
New doors on a grimy frame look worse, not better, because the new door shows off the old frame. The frames get cleaned. If they need paint to match, that is its own line and we say so.
Drawer boxes and slides checked
A new drawer front on a drawer that sticks is a new front on a bad drawer. Slides are checked and replaced where they are worn. It is a small line that changes how the kitchen feels.
The hinge and hardware sample in hand
Before 40 doors are bored, one door is hung with the chosen hinge on the chosen overlay. If it closes right, the order goes in. If not, we adjust the schedule, not your kitchen.
What is included, and where it ends.
A written scope is only worth something if it says where it stops. These are the lines we put in writing before anything is ordered.
How long the kitchen is out of use.
It is not. The kitchen works the whole time. The old doors come off the day the new ones are hung. The new ones go on the same day or the next. The wait is for the doors to be made, and the maker sets that date. Measuring takes most of a day for a full kitchen.
When we tell you not to do it
New doors are the cheapest kitchen job on this site. That makes them easy to sell to someone who needs more. Here is where we say no, and why.
The frames are a different color
New white doors on old oak frames look like new doors on old frames. If the frames cannot be painted to match, a reface covers the frames too. It costs more, and it is the job you are picturing.
The boxes are swollen or soft
A new door on a box that is failing is a new door on a failing box. Under the sink is where it shows first. If the box is done, new cabinets for that run is the honest answer.
You want the color changed and the doors are fine
If the doors are solid and the style suits you, painting them costs less than replacing them. Cabinet painting is its own page, and it keeps the doors you have.
You are changing the layout later
New doors now and new boxes next year means paying twice for the doors. Do the layout first. Or do the doors now and plan to reuse them, which only works if the boxes stay.
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 new doors it means the fit. The doors we hung stay aligned, the hinges we set stay set, and the gaps stay even.
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 replacing cabinet doors the same as refacing?
No. New doors keep the frames and box faces as they are. A reface also covers every visible face with a new skin. If your frames are the color you want, new doors alone can be enough. If not, it is a reface.
Can I keep my old hinges?
Sometimes. If they are concealed hinges in good shape and the new doors are bored to match, yes. Old exposed hinges rarely work with new doors. We tell you on the walkthrough, and we price it both ways.
Will new doors match my old cabinets?
The doors will be new and the frames will be old. If the frames are painted the same color as the new doors, it reads as one kitchen. If they are a different wood or color, it does not. Then you need a reface or painted frames.
How do you make sure the doors fit?
By measuring every opening twice and hanging one sample door before the order. The sample proves the hinge, the overlay and the gap. Then the schedule goes to the maker. A door that still does not fit is our re-order, not yours.
Can I get soft close doors?
Yes. Soft close is in the hinge, not the door. New concealed hinges with soft close are a line for each door. It is the most common upgrade on this job.
Do you replace drawer fronts too?
Yes. Drawer fronts and the false fronts at the sink are part of the same order. They are counted as pieces, like the doors. A drawer that sticks gets its slides checked while the front is off.
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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.