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CGI Construction in Felton, CA | Framework Contractors
We provide independent CGI cabinet and vanity installation, repair, and refacing across Felton as your Felton General Contractor, and we do it differently than a flatland contractor would. Felton’s older redwood-era cabins, steep lots, and Wildland-Urban Interface building rules change how CGI products should be specified, installed, and maintained here. If you’re planning a kitchen or bath remodel with CGI cabinets, call (844) 681-3590 for a free estimate. Noel Carbajal and our crew know these products and this terrain.
Why Felton Residents Choose Us for CGI Service
CGI makes a solid cabinet line: ready-to-assemble kitchen boxes, all-wood bath vanities, Euro-style frames, Shaker and raised-panel doors. We’ve installed enough of them in Felton homes to know exactly where they work well and where they need extra attention. Many Felton kitchens are in 1950s-to-1970s redwood homes with floors that have settled, walls that bow, and air that swings from wet-winter damp to dry-summer heat. That’s the real test of a cabinet install, and it’s where experience beats a generic handyman every time.
We’re an independent CGI sales & service contractor. Not authorized, not factory-backed, and we don’t pretend otherwise. What that buys you is honesty about parts, finishes, and whether a repair makes sense or replacement is the better call. We stock common OEM CGI hinges, glides, and touch-up kits in our service vehicles, so we’re not waiting a week for a bracket when your door’s sagging. And because we live in the work we do across Felton service area homes, we know which cabinet details tend to fail first in mountain conditions.
Noel Carbajal started patching stucco and reroofing porches as a kid in Santa Ana, went through the Construction Technology program at Santiago Canyon College, and has spent nearly thirty years remodeling homes across California. He treats every Felton job like it’s his own place: square, shimmed, sealed, and finished. Build it right the first time. The second time costs twice as much and nobody’s happy.
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Common CGI Construction Problems We Solve in Felton
- Moisture-wicked cabinet boxes. CGI particleboard and MDF boxes will absorb moisture if a Felton kitchen or bath isn’t venting properly, and in these wet winters, that shows up fast as swollen bottom panels and delaminating edges. We find the moisture source, fix it, and then repair or replace the affected boxes so the problem doesn’t return.
- Corroding drawer glides and binding hinges. Unheated cabins go through damp-dry cycles every season. Hardware that works fine in a Santa Cruz flatland tract home will rust, bind, or sag after a few years up here. We swap in OEM or heavy-duty aftermarket soft-close hardware depending on what the application needs.
- Thermofoil and laminate peeling at edges. CGI thermo-wrapped doors installed near a wood stove or in a sun-baked addition see extreme temperature swings, and the wrap starts lifting at the corners. That’s a cosmetic failure that grows. If the substrate’s still sound, we reface. If it’s not, we replace.
- Out-of-square cabinet runs on sloped floors. Felton homes on pier-and-post or partial-basement foundations have floors that settle unevenly. A CGI cabinet run installed without correcting for that will show uneven reveals, doors that won’t align, and gaps under the countertop. We level, shim, and build to square.
- Hidden prior work in old cabins. A lot of Felton kitchens have an unpermitted addition or a handyman cabinet job hiding behind newer siding. We find it, document it, and fix the underlying framing or moisture barrier before we set a single CGI box.
CGI Service in Felton: What Local Conditions Mean for Your Equipment
Felton sits in the redwood and fir belt of the Santa Cruz Mountains, and the building reality here is shaped by the Wildland-Urban Interface fire code and defensible-space rules Santa Cruz County enforces. Roofing, siding, windows, and even cabinet installations get looked at through that lens. A CGI vanity in a Felton bathroom isn’t just a cabinet: the wall penetration behind it may need fire-rated caulking, and the venting above it may need ember-resistant mesh. We also bring that same WUI expertise to our CGI in Scotts Valley projects. We handle those details because we have to. On a Graham Hill Road remodel, we opened a kitchen wall to set CGI Shaker cabinets and found the original 1960s redwood cabinets had been built directly over exposed framing with no vapor barrier. The new boxes would have sat out of plane and wicked moisture within a season. We sistered the studs, added a proper barrier, shimmed every box to level, set the quartz countertop, and finished with fire-rated caulking at all wall penetrations to meet WUI code. A flatland contractor who never works above the fog line doesn’t think that way.
CGI Models & Products We Service in Felton
We install, repair, and reface the full CGI residential lineup: Ready-to-Assemble kitchen cabinets, All-Wood bath vanity cabinets, Euro-Style cabinet boxes, and Shaker and Raised-Panel door styles. When a part needs replacing, we use OEM CGI hinges, glides, and touch-up materials for direct replacements. When OEM parts are discontinued or the hardware’s just not built for the cycle duty a Felton kitchen sees, we’ll specify a quality aftermarket soft-close glide instead and tell you why. What gets stocked locally for fast Felton turnaround: standard hinges, drawer glides, edge banding, touch-up kits, and leveling shims. The odd piece still comes from the manufacturer, but most repairs get done in one visit.
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Here’s what CGI work typically runs, based on the scope:
| Service | Felton Price Range |
|---|---|
| Kitchen Remodel | $14,000 – $45,000 |
| Cabinet Installation | $4,000 – $13,000 |
| Bathroom Vanity Installation | $800 – $3,000 |
| Countertop Installation | $2,000 – $6,500 |
What drives the final number in Felton: how far out of level the floor is, whether we’re correcting prior unpermitted work before the new cabinets go in, how much fire-hardening detail the job requires, and whether you’re buying RTA boxes or pre-assembled All-Wood vanities. A free estimate means we show up, measure, level-check, and give you a written line-item quote before you commit. Call (844) 681-3590 to schedule yours.
Serving Felton, CA — Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Felton area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage — if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs – CGI Construction in Felton
Yes, and we do this regularly. CGI’s Shaker and Raised-Panel door styles in wood-toned finishes sit naturally next to older redwood trim and fir floors that are common in Felton homes. We match both the door profile and the finish as closely as the line allows, and we’ll tell you honestly if a true match needs a custom shop.
They do. In a WUI zone, the cabinet boxes themselves don’t catch fire, but wall penetrations behind them matter. We use fire-rated caulking at every pipe and electrical penetration behind a CGI vanity or kitchen cabinet run, and we specify stainless or coated hardware that resists the damp-dry corrosion cycles these mountain homes see. Regular hardware will work for a while, then it binds.
We level the cabinet run before we set the first box. That means shimming at the floor, checking the tops with a laser, and sometimes correcting the subfloor if the slope’s beyond what shims can handle. If the wall’s bowed, we plane or sister as needed. A CGI box is square; your 1960s cabin floor isn’t. We make them work together.
RTA boxes usually ship in a few days to a couple weeks depending on the line and finish. Pre-assembled All-Wood vanities can run two to six weeks. We place the order the day the contract’s signed, and we’ll set the install date so you’re not living without a kitchen longer than necessary.
Often yes. If the boxes are structurally sound and the faces are just tired, refacing gives you new doors, drawer fronts, and edge banding for a fraction of full replacement. If a Felton winter has swollen the box itself, refacing won’t hide that. We’ll pull a drawer and show you what we’re seeing. Call (844) 681-3590 and we’ll take a look.
Service Areas Near Felton
We run CGI service throughout the San Lorenzo Valley and surrounding areas. If you’re over the hill in Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley, Ben Lomond, or Boulder Creek, we can schedule you. We also work in CGI service in Lexington Hills and CGI service in Lompico, where the mountain conditions are just as demanding.
Book Your CGI Service in Felton Today
If CGI cabinets or vanities are part of your Felton remodel and you want them installed to handle the mountain conditions, call (844) 681-3590. Ask us too about our CGI service in Mount Hermon. We’ll set up a free estimate, check the floors and walls, and give you a written price before any work starts.
Written by Noel Carbajal, Owner at Framework Contractors, serving Felton and the Santa Cruz Mountains with independent CGI installation and repair.