The best way that we have discovered in regard to, how to get contact glue off of plastic laminate, is by using a flammable grade of lacquer thinner, moderately applied to a white rag. It never fails when custom cabinet makers fabricate kitchens and baths, out of Formica,  somehow there is always a spot that has some glue on it somewhere. Read more…

I’ve been in the cabinet industry for close to thirty years and I must say that working with the Doormark thermofoil doors manufacturer has been one of the best choices that our company has ever made. We’ve had few problems with their vinyl products. Unlike many other specialty MDF (or, “medium density fiberboard”) vinyl wrap companies, Doormark delivers, high quality kitchen cabinet doors, on time and Read more…

If someone has damaged your plastic laminate top with something hot, there are only a couple of ways to fix a burnt (or, “burned”) Formica countertop. Relaminating the damaged area or installing a “Surface Saver” or butcher block cutting board are the only methods that return professional results. If you were hoping to find easy ways to repair a kitchen, bath, vanity or laundry room mica counter that has a burn in it, these methods Read more…

In the past ten years companies which make prefabricated cabinets have made huge advancements in developing quality European and face frame style boxes. Should I get prefab cupboards? If I had been asked this question back in the year 2000, without hesitation, I would have told you to purchase your cabinetry from a custom cabinet manufacture.

Many of the elegant million dollar homes in the South Florida area, where I live, have prefab, production type kitchens, vanities and laundry room cabinets installed in them. Here’s the thing though, if your going to use boxes that come in predefined sizes, purchase them from Read more…

Throughout the many years that I have been in the repair business,  it has been necessary to learn how to fix upper (or, “wall”) cabinets that are sagging from the ceiling. Drooping boxes usually need to be unloaded in order for them to be fixed.  If the cabinetry was  not installed correctly,  this could be the reason for the problem.

Sometimes installers get in a hurry and skip certain steps that could prevent them from falling down and creating gaps that are too large to fill with caulking. Because they avoid placing screws in the proper place, this is why cabinets drop from soffits. It is quit possible, but not likely that the screws on the back wall Read more…