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KraftMaid Construction in Miami, FL | Penhallow Remodeling Miami
We provide independent KraftMaid cabinet installation, refacing, and repair throughout Miami, and we’re not a factory-authorized shop. The one thing that makes our KraftMaid work different here is simple: we’ve spent years re-anchoring cabinets to concrete block, rebuilding sink bases rotted by 90% humidity, and matching door styles on kitchens where the factory discontinued the line a decade ago. If you own a KraftMaid kitchen in Miami, you already know this city punishes cabinetry differently than anywhere else in Florida. Call (850) 988-7559 and we’ll give you a written number before any work starts.
Why Miami Residents Choose Us for KraftMaid Service
Most remodeling crews in Miami can hang a cabinet. Few can tell you why your KraftMaid doors sagged after two summers, or why the original installer’s lead anchors gave out, or whether that peeling thermofoil door is worth refacing or replacing. That’s the work Trevor Nash and our carpenters do every week. Trevor learned cabinet construction and finish work the hard way, over nearly three decades of remodels from small Miami Bathroom Remodeling refreshes to full structural jobs, and he’s the first to say a job in a 1962 CBS home in Little Havana is different from a job in a 2015 condo tower off Brickell. We also carry KraftMaid-spec hinges, drawer slides, and touch-up kits for the lines we service, so a sagging door doesn’t become a three-week parts wait when we can pull from our own stock. We’re an independent service provider, which means we can tell you honestly when a box is worth saving and when refacing it would just hide the next problem.
Styles & brands we work with
Common KraftMaid Construction Problems We Solve in Miami
- Swollen MDF center panels below sinks and dishwashers. Miami’s 90% humidity combined with a slow drain leak or dishwasher vent drip will swell an MDF center panel in months. We see it most in older Little Havana and Allapattah kitchens where the original sink base has been quietly leaking for years. We rebuild the box with exterior-grade plywood and remount the original door and drawer front when the panel is still salvageable.
- Hinges and drawer glides corroded by salt air. Homes east of I-95 and along the coast get a steady diet of salt air that eats plated steel hardware. KraftMaid hinges from the 1990s and early 2000s are especially prone to it. Doors start dropping, drawer glides grind, and eventually the screws strip out of the particleboard. We swap in KraftMaid-spec replacements and re-align the doors.
- Thermofoil doors peeling along bottom edges. In unventilated concrete-block kitchens, heat and moisture have nowhere to go. Thermofoil doors, especially on KraftMaid lines from the late 1990s and early 2000s, delaminate from the bottom up. We’ll quote you refacing versus replacement honestly, because sometimes the door is too far gone to glue back.
- Cabinets pulling away from concrete block walls. Miami’s older homes, particularly the 1950s-70s CBS stock in Little Havana and Allapattah, were often hung with lead anchors that corrode after decades of humidity. The cabinet starts leaning off the wall, gaps open at the countertop, and doors won’t close square. We re-anchor with stainless Tapcons and furring strips, then remount the boxes level.
- Water-damaged boxes behind tile backsplashes. In homes where the original grout has failed or the countertop seam has opened, water runs down the back of the cabinet box. By the time you see it, the bottom shelf and back panel are usually soft. We cut out the damaged material and rebuild the box floor with plywood that laughs at Miami’s wet season.
KraftMaid Service in Miami: What Local Conditions Mean for Your Equipment
Here’s the part a crew from Fort Lauderdale rarely encounters. In Little Havana and Allapattah, many 1950s-70s CBS homes have original KraftMaid cabinetry hung directly on concrete block with lead anchors that have loosened after decades of Miami humidity and thermal cycling. The block expands and contracts with our wet-dry seasons, the lead corrodes, and the box pulls 3/8-inch off the wall. You can’t fix that with longer screws. You have to pull the cabinet, fur out the wall with pressure-treated cleats, and re-anchor with stainless Tapcons rated for masonry. We’ve done this on KraftMaid Vantage kitchens where the boxes were still square and the doors still true, and the only real problem was what the 1962 installer bolted them with. On NW 7th Street in Little Havana, our crew opened up a 1962 CBS kitchen with original KraftMaid Vantage oak cabinets. The boxes had pulled 3/8-inch off the block wall because the original lead anchors had corroded, and the sink base floor was black-edged from years of slow drain leaks. We reframed with pressure-treated cleats, re-anchored with stainless Tapcons, and rebuilt the sink base with exterior-grade plywood, then reinstalled the doors and drawer fronts after cleaning and replacing every glide. That’s the Miami-specific failure mode nobody writes about online, and it’s the reason we start every cabinet estimate by looking at how the boxes are actually attached to the wall.
KraftMaid Models & Products We Service in Miami
We work on the KraftMaid lines most common in Miami kitchens: Vantage, Dove White, Wrightport, and Hadley. For partial remodels where we’re matching existing doors, we use KraftMaid-spec hinges, slides, and touch-up kits when the factory still supplies them. For discontinued lines, which describes a lot of the 1980s-2000s KraftMaid kitchens we open up, we build doors and boxes to match locally. Our shop cuts and finishes door profiles to the existing style and color, because factory-matched parts for a line KraftMaid retired in 2005 simply don’t exist. We stock common KraftMaid hinge patterns, soft-close slides, and corner braces in our Miami shop so a repair doesn’t stall for a week waiting on a parts drop. For full installs, we source new KraftMaid cabinetry through our supplier network and install to Miami-Dade wind-load and anchoring standards. We’re an independent provider. We’re not KraftMaid-authorized, and we don’t pretend to be. What we are is honest about what’s repairable, what’s replaceable, and what the factory can’t help you with anymore. For broader KraftMaid sales and service context, see KraftMaid sales & service.
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KraftMaid work in Miami covers a wide spread because the job changes fast once we see what’s behind the doors. A simple re-anchoring and alignment on a single cabinet runs $470 – $2,125. Rebuilding a water-swollen sink base with exterior-grade plywood runs $590 – $1,650. A full KraftMaid kitchen remodel with new cabinet installation lands between $16,520 and $53,100, depending on layout, cabinet line, countertop material, and whether we’re furring out concrete block behind the boxes. Here’s the line-item breakdown:
| Service | Price Range |
|---|---|
| KraftMaid cabinet re-anchoring and alignment (small job) | $470 – $2,125 |
| Sink base box rebuild with exterior-grade plywood | $590 – $1,650 |
| Full KraftMaid kitchen remodel with new cabinet installation | $16,520 – $53,100 |
Every estimate is free, and we put the number in writing before a single cabinet is touched. You’ll know exactly what the job costs, exactly what we’re doing, and exactly what’s covered under our 365-Day Done Right Promise. Call (850) 988-7559 and we’ll walk the kitchen with you.
Serving Miami, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Miami area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs – KraftMaid Construction in Miami
Salt air east of I-95 corrodes the hinge plates and pivot pins on older KraftMaid hardware, and once the metal starts to go, the door loses its bite and sags. The fix is replacing the hinges with KraftMaid-spec units and re-aligning the door face. Call (850) 988-7559 for an exact quote, and we’ll inspect the hinge type before you spend a dollar.
Yes, and it’s one of our most common jobs in Miami’s CBS homes. The wall needs a furring strip system and stainless Tapcon anchors rated for block, because standard drywall screws or lead anchors will fail the same way the original install did. We quote this as a separate line item so you see exactly what the concrete anchoring costs before work starts.
In a Brickell condo, the peeling is usually heat and humidity related, and once thermofoil separates from the MDF core, it can’t be reliably re-bonded. We’ll look at how far the peel has traveled and quote you refacing versus full door replacement. The honest answer sometimes is that replacement is cheaper than fighting a losing glue battle. Call (850) 988-7559 for a free look.
For lines still in production, like Dove White, Wrightport, and Hadley, we order factory-matched doors and touch-up kits. For older Vantage and discontinued finishes, our shop builds and finishes doors to the existing profile and stain, because KraftMaid no longer supplies them. We’ll show you samples before we build anything.
Only if the boxes are structurally sound, and in Allapattah homes with termite history, we inspect every box before quoting refacing. Termite-damaged carcases can’t be refaced, and covering them just hides a problem that gets worse. We’ll tell you straight whether to reface or replace, and the estimate is free either way. Call (850) 988-7559 to schedule an inspection.
Service Areas Near Miami
We serve Miami and the surrounding communities, including Brownsville and Hialeah where older CBS homes have the same concrete-block anchoring issues we see across the city. We also cover North Miami Beach, Aventura, and Westchester. For cabinet work specifically in neighboring areas, see KraftMaid service in Brownsville and KraftMaid service in Hialeah. Our full coverage area is here: Miami service area.
Book Your KraftMaid Service in Miami Today
Trevor’s rule is the same on every job: give you a number first, then pick up the tools. Call (850) 988-7559 to schedule your free KraftMaid estimate in Miami. A live person answers, and we’ll have a written price in your hand before any work starts.
Written by Trevor Nash, General Contractor - Miami, Owner at Penhallow Remodeling Miami, serving Miami since the Kingswell standard was established in 2004.
