Each failure listed · each one priced · the ones not worth fixing named
Cabinet Repair in Murfreesboro, TN
Cabinet repair in Murfreesboro, TN covers the failures that make a kitchen feel old without changing how it looks: doors that will not sit level, drawers that drag, joints that have opened, a sink base that has swollen from a slow leak.
- Every failure listed separately with its own price
- We say plainly which parts are past repairing
Tell us what is not working — doors, drawers, water damage. Someone attends, looks at each one, and you get the number in writing.
Repair is the right job while the boxes are sound
Hinges lose their adjustment, drawer slides wear, a face frame joint opens, a door stops sitting flat. Those are mechanical failures on cabinets that are otherwise fine, and they are cheap to put right.
The exception is the box itself. Particleboard that has taken on water under a sink has swollen and lost its structure, and no filler brings it back. We tell you which of the two you have before you have paid for anything.
No fee, no obligation.
The four most common failures in a Murfreesboro kitchen
Each is quoted as its own line, so you can take some of them and leave the rest.
Doors that will not sit level
Doors that no longer line up with each other are either a hinge problem or a door problem, and the two look identical from across the room. Concealed hinges adjust in three directions and can be brought back into line in minutes. A door that has cupped will not sit flat however the hinge is set, because the door itself is no longer flat. One is a ten-minute adjustment, the other is a replacement front.
Drawers that drag, tip or will not close
A drawer that has stopped running is normally the slide rather than the drawer, and worn or bent slides are a direct replacement. Older kitchens here often have side-mounted slides that tip forward when the drawer is pulled fully out, and soft-close slides that run underneath are a straight upgrade where the drawer is deep enough. A drawer whose bottom panel has dropped out of its groove is a rebuild rather than a slide swap.
Joints that have opened and edges that have chipped
Face frames and door frames are joined at the corners, and a joint that has worked loose shows as a hairline gap that gets wider each year. We reglue and clamp loose joinery rather than filling the gap, because filler in a moving joint reopens within a season. Chips and dents in a finished edge are filled and refinished in place.
Water damage under the sink
The sink base is where cabinets die, because a slow supply or waste leak sits against the deck and the back panel for months before anyone notices. Solid wood and plywood can be cut back and spliced with new material; particleboard that has taken on water has swollen and lost its structure, and nothing restores it. Every quote states which material your sink base is and therefore whether it is a splice or a new box.
If the doors are sound but dated, the answer is cabinet painting or cabinet refinishing rather than repair. If several fronts need replacing anyway, cabinet door replacement or cabinet refacing usually costs less than the repairs added together. A box that has to be rebuilt to fit an odd opening is custom cabinets. Everything priced side by side is on cabinet refacing cost in Murfreesboro, and the rest is on the cabinet services hub.
The spec goes on the quote before you decide anything.
Murfreesboro's 70% humidity is why your doors stick in August
Doors, frames and drawer fronts are milled and hung to sit at 30 to 40% relative humidity. That gap is what makes doors here stick, cup and split at the panel.
Air at 70% against wood built for 30 to 40%
Interior wood is milled, finished and installed to sit at roughly 30 to 40% relative humidity. Murfreesboro averages 70% across the year.
Wood is hygroscopic: it takes moisture from air that has more than it does and gives it back to air that has less, expanding and contracting as it goes.
The eleven-point swing from April to September
A steady level would settle into an equilibrium and stop causing trouble. What does the damage is the change: 63% in April rising to 74% in September, then back again, every year.
Rapid or repeated swings put the most stress on a door. That is the mechanism behind four doors that catch every August and are fine again by March.
Uneven absorption is what actually warps a door
A door that takes moisture on evenly across both faces grows and shrinks and stays flat. A door absorbing unevenly cups toward whichever face is drier.
The usual cause is a door finished on the front and left bare on the top edge, the bottom edge and the back. Five of a door’s six faces are invisible once it is hung, which is exactly why they get skipped.
A cupped door is not a hinge problem, and adjusting the hinge hides it
The first response to a door that no longer closes flush is to adjust the hinge, and it works well enough to be misleading: the door is pulled shut and the gap moves somewhere else.
A cupped door is not flat, so no hinge setting makes it flat. It is either sealed on all six faces and given time, or it is replaced.
The visit tells you which of these applies to your kitchen.
Repair is priced per fault. The alternatives start at $1,500
Individual repairs are quoted per item, so this table shows the point at which the repairs stop being the cheaper answer. The ranges are the 2026 Murfreesboro market; the fixed number for your repairs goes on the written quote after the visit.
| Work | What the number assumes | Typical range |
|---|---|---|
| When repair stops being the cheaper answer | ||
| Painting the doors instead | existing doors sprayed, small kitchen of 10–15 fronts | $1,500–$3,200 |
| Refinishing the doors instead | existing doors stripped back and recoated | $1,500–$3,500 |
| Refacing instead | all fronts replaced, box faces veneered to match | $4,500–$13,000 |
| Full replacement instead | old cabinets removed, new cabinets built and fitted | $15,000–$30,000+ |
A hinge set, a pair of slides, a reglued joint, a spliced panel: each is its own line on the quote, because bundling them removes your ability to take some and leave the rest. What moves the total is how many boxes are involved, whether the sink base is particleboard or plywood, and whether a stain match is needed on a visible repair. Once the list gets long, we put the refacing figure beside it.
Free. No obligation. Most quotes back the same day.
Working with us, in four steps
Four steps. You can stop after the second one and it has cost you nothing.
We open every door and pull every drawer
Someone comes out and works through the kitchen one opening at a time, because the fault you called about is rarely the only one.
You get each failure listed and priced
One line per fault, each with its own number, and the ones we think are not worth fixing marked as such. Take all of it or take three lines of it.
Hinges and slides first, then the joinery
Adjustments and swaps first, then the joinery and any spliced panels, and a stain match on anything visible.
A kitchen that works, and what will not last
We tell you what we expect to come back and roughly when, so the next decision is made early rather than in an emergency.
Most repairs are done in one visit
Step one costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Repair questions people ask before they book
Is cabinet repair worth the cost?
Can damaged kitchen cabinets be repaired?
Can a handyman fix kitchen cabinets?
Why do my cabinet doors stick in the summer and not in the winter?
Why has one of my cabinet doors warped?
Should I repair the cabinets or start again?
Tell us what your kitchen has. We'll price it in writing.
Say roughly how many doors and drawers there are and what you want them to look like. Someone comes out, counts them properly, and you get one fixed number in writing — priced both ways where refacing and painting are both real options. Nothing is owed if you don't go ahead.
In-home estimate is free · no obligation · most quotes back the same day.
- Free in-home estimate across Murfreesboro
- Priced from a real door and drawer count
- The finish system named on the quote
- Your kitchen stays usable while it happens