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Home Depot kitchen cabinets refacing, pricey?
Comments (21)@HU-694292508 I feel your pain. We ordered a cabinet refacing of our kitchen and upstairs bathrooms in mid-February. They were promised in 6-8 weeks. Nine weeks out they scheduled the install for the second week of May. Two days before then, they called to move it out two more weeks. We were getting our house ready to list and the cabinet refacing was the last (and biggest/most expensive) thing left to do. The installer came on the appointed day, did the kitchen installation but discovered that the bathroom materials were never ordered. He placed the order that day but the ETA was mid-July. I was SO mad. But I was very lucky. Our installer was a nice guy who gave me numbers of some higher-ups to call (so I overlooked the HUGE mess he and his crew made). I was very polite but firm to everyone I called. A regional installation manager arranged for a custom cabinet maker to make some temporary doors/drawer for our bathrooms so we could list our house. The installer also found that a pair of cabinet doors in the kitchen had been measured wrong. He had to trim one of them to get them installed. He took the measurements for those too. No one could give me an ETA of those doors. They were ordered on 5/19. Thursday 7/22 we closed on our house. Friday 7/23 in the middle of moving out I got a call from Home Depot Installations to schedule installation of that last pair of cabinet doors. HA! I left a note for the new owners. I am so glad to be done with Home Depot and I won't buy so much as a pack of yard bags from them again....See MoreKitchen cabinet re-facing
Comments (12)I had a kitchen refaced 15 years ago and it was a high quality job that saved quite a chunk of change and looked great 10 years later when I sold my home. However, I got some quotes for refacing my current kitchen and was pretty unimpressed by the savings. Reading reviews I have come to the conclusion that the quality has gone down and price went up and there is not near the savings that there was when I refaced my kitchen. Before deciding what to do I will ask you to think about a few things. 1. How long do you believe you will be in this home. 2. How does your home/kitchen compare to the other homes in your neighborhood? 3. What is a reasonable budget for you to spend on your renovation. Kitchen renovations are never inexpensive, but can vary greatly in cost. The return on the investment is never 100%. On average it is about 60 cents on the dollar. In other words, every dollar you spend on renovating your kitchen will gain you 60 cents when you sell. The other 40 cents is a gift to the new owner and money you cannot spend on your next home. The greatest impact on the price your home will bring when you sell is what other homes in your neighborhood sold for. If you spend $100,000 on your kitchen and spent market value for a home in your neighborhood and those home are $200,000.00 homes you will never get even close to the 60 cents on the dollar back when you sell. Your upgrades should make your home comparable to other homes in your neighborhood unless you are going to live there for a long time. That 40 cents per dollar will bring you joy and loving your home is important. You have to decide how much joy the renovations will bring to you and what other joys you will need to sacrifice when you spend the money on your kitchen. With the answers to these questions you are equipped to decide how much you will spend on your new kitchen and what savings are worth the sacrifice of not having the kitchen of your dreams. There are a range of options. If your cabinets are in good condition there really isn't a need to rip them all out. Some can be painted, some can be re-stained, you can replace the door and drawer fronts and paint the boxes by yourself or hire the work out. Sometimes painting the kitchen, replacing the back splash and counter tops can give your cabinets a whole new look. Share as much information as you feel comfortable sharing and share pictures of what you have and you get some great ideas on what can be done within your budget and your needs....See MoreKitchen Cabinet Refacing: Gaps Between Doors
Comments (1)I think a more modern look is more of an overlay. We are also refacing and when the architect came to do measurements he asked if I wanted the new doors to be a bit larger so the frame underneath shows less. I went for it!...See MoreKitchen Cabinet Refacing
Comments (7)Labor is the biggest portion of any job. That’s a job that’s almost all labor. And knowing which products to order. I supervised the regional refacing through Home Depot. I have seen a Kitchen quoted for 22K that I had sold the previous owner the cabinets for 11K 2 years before. I personally quoted a job at 38K and knew darn well that they could replace the import quality RTA cabinets in that kitchen for 1/4 that. Just go on any flat pack site if you don’t believe me. I’s a highly inflated costs scamorama, and just one of the reasons I don’t do that anymore. Another prominent “bath redo” company that I worked for *started* at $600 a door to field estimate the costs. Even the local cabinet maker that did this will not do it anymore. The cost difference between his budget product and a reface was under 1K. Even a professional grade paint job for older cabinets runs 5-7K for a smaller space. You can buy stock off the shelf new for half that. Just refinishing the boxes of the old, and buying new doors, adds several more thousands for that. A typically larger sized Houzz kitchen would easily be 12-15K for that. Add in a veneered box service instead of a psinted look, and the costs go up again. But, I know where I can buy new doors, and am not scared of sandpaper and a spray gun. If someone is willing to do sweat equity, they can DIY everything for under 4K. Big difference between that and 22K. Buy you can still buy off the shelf Diamond Now at Lowe’s cheaper than that. The bottom end is really low. Doing ANYTHING to old cabinets, means the cabinets have to be good enough quality to justify that labor expense. Because the flat pack import junk is really cheap. It’s why flippers replace old cabinets with that, rather than going through the time and expense of a week’s job with a pro paint job. 2 days of demo and install, and done. Ready for the prefab stone getting cut in the yard by a “carpenter” and a worm drive saw....See More
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