Cabinetry Installation in Tacoma and South Puget Sound
Kitchen and bath installs, refacing and built-ins.
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The situation
What you're actually dealing with
Cabinet installation is a levelling and scribing job. Cabinets arrive square, houses are not, and the entire quality of the finished kitchen comes down to how carefully the boxes are shimmed, levelled and fastened before a single door is hung.
This matters more in older housing stock than anywhere else. Walls in a home built in the 1940s are rarely plumb and floors are rarely flat, which means a run of cabinets set without proper shimming will show it immediately: doors that will not align, gaps at the ceiling, and a countertop that cannot sit flat.
Best Pro installs cabinetry you have purchased, or supplies and installs it. Either way the boxes get set level and fastened into framing, not into drywall.
Public record
Verify with L&I- WA contractor license
- BESTPPC752LD
- Construction Contractor, General · Active · UBI 605 604 724
- Contractor bond
- $30,000
- The North River Insurance Company · double the $15,000 a specialty contractor carries
- General liability
- $1,000,000
- State National Insurance Company Inc · four times the $250,000 state minimum
Scope
What a typical job includes
This is the standard scope. Yours is written out and agreed before anything starts.
- Removal and disposal of existing cabinetry where applicable
- Wall and floor assessment for level, plumb and square before layout
- Layout and level line established across the full run
- Upper and base cabinet installation, shimmed and fastened into framing
- Scribing to walls, ceilings and floors for tight finished joints
- Filler, trim, toe kick, crown and light rail installation
- Door and drawer alignment across the whole run
- Hardware installation
- Coordination with countertop templating and install
Cost
What drives the price
Best Pro does not publish price ranges, because a number posted on a website has to ignore everything that actually makes your job cost what it costs. Here is what a quote is built from instead.
- The number of cabinet boxes and the total linear footage of the run
- Whether existing cabinets have to be removed and disposed of
- How far out of level and plumb the walls and floors are, which drives scribing labor
- Crown, light rail, fillers and other trim detail
- Whether plumbing or electrical has to be relocated for a layout change
- Countertop coordination and any required cabinet modification for sinks or appliances
The free estimate covers all of it: an on-site walkthrough, a written scope, and a firm number you can compare against anyone else's.
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How a cabinetry job runs
Step 1
Measure and layout review
We check the field measurements against the cabinet order before demolition, because a layout problem found on paper costs nothing and one found on install day costs a week.
Step 2
Demolition
Existing cabinets out, walls patched, and any plumbing or electrical that needs to move identified and coordinated.
Step 3
Layout lines
Level lines struck around the room from the high point of the floor, and studs located and marked. This step is what everything else hangs on.
Step 4
Install
Uppers first, then bases, each one shimmed and scribed, fastened into framing and joined to its neighbor.
Step 5
Countertop coordination
Once the bases are set and level, the countertop fabricator can template. We coordinate that timing so you are not waiting on it.
Step 6
Trim, doors and hardware
Fillers, toe kick, crown and light rail, then every door and drawer front aligned across the run and hardware set.
Options
Materials and choices
Straight guidance on what suits this climate and this housing stock, including where the cheaper option is genuinely fine.
- New cabinet installation
- Stock, semi-custom or custom boxes. We install what you have bought or help you specify it.
- Cabinet refacing
- New doors, drawer fronts and veneer over sound existing boxes. A fraction of the cost and disruption of a full replacement, and the right answer when the layout works and the boxes are solid.
- Cabinet painting
- Properly prepped and sprayed, this transforms a dated kitchen for far less than replacement. Prep is everything and it is not a weekend job.
- Built-ins and vanities
- Bathroom vanities, laundry and mudroom storage, closet systems and built-in shelving.
Recent work
Cabinetry Installation projects
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Built-in home office cabinetry
A full wall of built-in office cabinetry in white oak: a long desk run, upper cabinets, open shelving with dark floating shelves, and a quartz top scribed to walls that were nowhere near plumb.
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Two-tone kitchen cabinet install
White shaker uppers over a navy island and base run, each box shimmed and levelled off the high point of the floor before the countertop fabricator came to template.
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Kitchen cabinet installation
Uppers hung and crown run, with base boxes set and fastened into framing rather than drywall. Photographed mid-install, before countertops and hardware.
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Kitchenette cabinets and quartz
A compact kitchenette finished with shaker cabinets, a quartz countertop, an undermount stainless sink and plank flooring carried through from the adjoining room.
Questions
Cabinetry questions, answered
Yes. Best Pro Contractors installs cabinetry purchased from any supplier. Field measurements are checked against your order before demolition begins so that any ordering problem is caught early.
Refacing is worth it when the existing cabinet boxes are structurally sound and the kitchen layout already works. It costs a fraction of full replacement and takes days instead of weeks. If the boxes are failing or the layout needs to change, replacement is the better investment.
A typical kitchen cabinet installation takes three to five working days once the cabinets are on site. Countertop templating happens after the bases are set and usually adds one to two weeks of fabrication time before the counters are installed.
Best Pro Contractors coordinates countertop templating and installation with your fabricator as part of the schedule, so the sequence between cabinets, counters and plumbing does not fall to you to manage.
Yes. Cabinet painting is a legitimate alternative when the boxes and doors are in good condition. It requires full degreasing, sanding, priming and sprayed finish coats to hold up in a kitchen.
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