Door and drawer alignment
Six-way adjustable hinges are only useful if someone adjusts them. We set the gaps even, check the reveals, and stop doors rubbing at the top of the frame.
Kitchen and bathroom cabinet repairs
Cabinet & cupboard work in Connecticut.
Most cabinets do not need replacing — they need adjusting. Crooked doors, drawers that catch, worn hinges: most kitchens are fixed in one visit of $120–$300.
Cabinet & Cupboard Work
How this is priced
Most cabinet visits run one to three hours. A full kitchen tune-up usually fits a half-day.
A few doors and drawers$120–$300, one visit
Full kitchen tune-upHalf-day, $350–$600
Hinge or runner replacementParts at cost, on top of the visit
Soft-close retrofitQuoted per door and drawer, same visit
No travel fee in the fourteen towns we serve. If the job takes less time than quoted, you pay less.
What's included
What this service covers.
The six things people book most, and what each one includes.
Hinges, runners and slides
European hinges, bottom-mount runners, ball-bearing slides — matched to what is in the box, not forced to fit what is not.
Soft-close retrofits
Adding dampers to existing hinges where the brand supports it. It makes a kitchen quieter, and it helps a lot for shaky hands.
Handles, pulls and knobs
Swapped to something easier to grip, with the old holes filled or reused so the doors are not peppered with extras.
Crown, light rail and scribe
Trim re-fitted tight to wall and ceiling, with the small filler pieces cut to follow an older wall that was never straight.
Shelf pins and organizers
Shelf support sleeves replaced where they have chewed out, and pull-out baskets or organizers fitted where they make sense.
What we don't do
What we don't do, and who to call instead.
If a job needs a licensed trade, a permit, or an engineer, we tell you on the phone and point you to the right person.
- Building new custom cabinets — that is a cabinetmaker with a shop, and we will say so.
- Countertop fabrication, cutting stone, or reworking sink cut-outs.
- Structural changes to peninsula or island framing.
- Spray finishing and full re-facing doors across a kitchen.
How it works
How a visit works, in three steps.
- 1
Tell us the kitchen
How many doors and drawers, and what is wrong — catching, sagging, loose, or all three. Photos by text are plenty.
- 2
Flat price first
One number for the visit including adjustment; any parts quoted at cost before we order them.
- 3
Adjust, fit, check
Every door opened and closed with you at the end, because that is the only test that matters.
Photos and a written summary after every visit, for family who could not be there.
Local detail
How your town changes the work.
The kitchens around Kensington and Berlin carry a lot of 1950s–70s birch and maple cabinets that were built better than anything flat-packed since. The boxes are worth keeping; the hinges are not. Replacing worn hinges on good old boxes is usually worth it.
In New Britain two- and three-families, cabinets have usually been through several tenants. Missing pulls, bent hinges and drawers off their runners are normal; matching 40-year-old hinge patterns takes a stock of the common old sizes, which we keep.
The 1980s and 90s colonials around Farmington and Avon more often have imported cabinets with proprietary hinge systems. We identify the series before quoting, so the parts arrive before the visit instead of after it.
Where this job comes up most
Every town page carries the housing stock, the roads and the timing for that place.
Licensed & insured in CT. The certificate goes out with a quote on request — useful when a family member is approving from out of state.
Before you book
Common questions.
Can you match my existing hinges?
Usually. Most older American cabinets use a handful of standard patterns, and imported ones are identifiable by brand and series. We bring the common ones on the day and order the odd ones at cost.
Is soft-close worth adding?
If the household includes anyone with unsteady hands or a habit of leaving doors ajar, yes — it is a modest parts cost on top of a visit you were already booking.
One of my doors is cracked, not loose.
Small door repairs — glue-ups, clamping, corner blocks — are within scope. A door that has swelled apart or delaminated is usually a replacement, and we will tell you which one you have.
Do you paint cabinets?
Cabinet painting done properly is a multi-day, off-site-quality job. We do touch-ups and re-fits after a painter has been in; full spray finishing we leave to specialists.
How long does a full kitchen tune-up take?
Most kitchens are a half-day. Big kitchens with 40-plus doors and drawers run longer, and that is quoted as its own visit before we start.
Why won't my cabinet door stay closed?
Usually a worn or out-of-adjustment hinge. Adjustable hinges can be re-set in minutes; worn ones are replaced at cost. It is a small job, not a new kitchen.
What does it cost?
A few doors and drawers adjusted is typically $120–$300. A full kitchen tune-up is a half-day at $350–$600. Parts are quoted at cost — we do not mark up a four-dollar hinge.
Often booked together
Related services.
Call or text us what you need — plain words or a photo. You get a flat price the same day.