plumbing
The leak dealt with first
We check the source before rebuilding, because new material under an active leak fails the same way the old material did.
Cabinet repair
Water-damaged cabinet repair in Louisville starts with the leak, because rebuilding a base under a faucet that still drips buys you a few months.
Water-damaged cabinet repair in Louisville covers removing the swollen or delaminated material, rebuilding the affected section in new board or solid timber, and finishing it to match the rest of the run.
The sink base is nearly always the cabinet involved. A slow supply leak or a failed waste connection wets the floor of the cabinet and wicks up the sides, and the damage spreads further than the wet patch suggests.
Toe kicks and the base panel go first, and the cabinet sides follow if it has been leaking for a while.
We check the source before rebuilding, because new material under an active leak fails the same way the old material did.
Damaged board is removed to where the panel is solid, since swollen particleboard never recovers its strength.
New material is finished to match, so the repair is not the first thing you see when the door opens.
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.
Swollen particleboard does not dry back. It has to come out.
Anyone who has opened the cabinet under the sink and found the floor of it soft, lifting or crumbling at the edges. That is a repair rather than a cosmetic problem.
It also follows a dishwasher failure. Those leak sideways into the neighboring base cabinets, so the damage often shows up next to the appliance rather than beneath it.
We find the source before doing anything else. Where the leak is still live it has to be fixed by a plumber first, and we will say so rather than build over it.
Then the damaged material is cut back to where the board is sound. Particleboard and MDF do not recover once the fibers have swollen, so drying it out and sealing it is not a repair.
New material goes in, the cabinet is put back square, and the finish is matched so the repair disappears into the run.
This varies more than anything else here, because the extent is not visible until the damaged material comes out. A swollen toe kick is a quick fix and a base that has wicked up both sides is a rebuild of that cabinet.
Where several cabinets are affected, the total can approach refinishing at $2,000 to $4,500 nationally, and at that point it is worth comparing against replacing the run.
Once the carcass sides have delaminated through their thickness, there is nothing sound left to fix to. Replacing that cabinet, or the run, is the straight answer and we would rather give it than quote a repair that will not hold.
If the boxes elsewhere are fine, cabinet refacing in Louisville handles tired fronts, and custom kitchen cabinets in Louisville covers a full replacement. Other failures sit under cabinet repair in Louisville, doors that no longer line up under cabinet door repair & realignment, and matching new work to old under cabinet refinishing in Louisville. We work across the metro including cabinets in Hurstbourne.
Get a free written estimate and we will look at your Louisville sink base before quoting.
No. Once the fibers have swollen the panel has permanently lost its strength, so the damaged section is cut back to sound material and rebuilt.
If the leak is still live, yes. Rebuilding a base under a faucet that still drips buys a few months, so the source gets fixed before anything is built.
You often do not until the material comes out. Water wicks up the sides further than the visible wet patch suggests, which is why this job varies more than any other here.
Sometimes, and where several cabinets are affected the total can approach refinishing at $2,000 to $4,500 nationally. At that point replacing the run is worth pricing.
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.