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Cover Kitchen Remodeling: The Orlando Owner’s Guide
If you’ve got a Cover kitchen that’s showing its age, here’s the honest starting point: a full kitchen remodel in Orlando runs $14,000 – $45,000, and we install Cover-compatible replacement components with a written price handed to you before a single cabinet comes out. Most owners don’t wake up planning this project. What usually happens is they notice a corner of their Cover cabinetry has started swelling from humidity, or a drawer glide finally gave out after thousands of opens, or the finish on a high-traffic door is worn through to the substrate. That’s the moment it stops being a cosmetic gripe and becomes a decision: patch it for the third time, or replace the worn components properly.
Which Cover Models This Applies To
Cover cabinetry is built on a handful of frame configurations, and the compatibility question always comes down to two things: hinge bore spacing and drawer-box depth. Before you commit to any replacement, grab a tape measure and check the hinge cups on one of your doors. If they measure 35mm, which nearly all Cover’s mid-range and upper lines use, you’ve got broad compatibility with aftermarket soft-close hardware from manufacturers like Blum or Salice, which we carry in the truck. If they’re the smaller 26mm cups from Cover’s older economy series, you’re more limited, and we’ll likely recommend staying within Cover’s own hinge line to avoid drilling new bores.
The second gotcha is drawer-box depth. Cover’s framed cabinets often use a 21-inch drawer box depth, not the 22-inch standard you’ll find in big-box replacement drawers. Order the wrong depth and the drawer face sits proud of the cabinet face by half an inch. We measure every box before we order. On the OEM-versus-aftermarket question, our honest take is that for hinges, glides, and soft-close mechanisms, aftermarket parts from Blum and Salice often outlast the original Cover hardware. For door and drawer fronts, we always recommend matching Cover’s original finish code, which is printed on a sticker inside the sink base cabinet. If that sticker is gone, we can still color-match most Cover finishes locally here in Orlando.
Styles & brands we work with
Signs Your Cover Kitchen Remodeling Is Failing
- Door corners showing dark discoloration or bubbling. This is moisture intrusion into the MDF core through a worn edge band. Orlando’s humidity accelerates it once the seal is broken, which is why we see this more in kitchens near the coast or without range-hood ventilation.
- Hinges that sag, squeak, or let the door drop a half-inch. The internal spring in the hinge has lost tension. On Cover’s older hinge models, you can’t tighten your way out of this; the spring cartridge is done.
- Drawer glides that bind halfway or make a crunching sound. Ball bearings have flat-spotted from wear, or a plastic roller has cracked. The frustrating part is that wiggling the drawer sometimes frees it temporarily, so people live with it for years.
- Soft-close doors that now slam. The damper piston inside the hinge or drawer slide is blown. Once the hydraulic fluid leaks out, the mechanism is a hinge without a brake.
- Countertop seams opening or laminate edges peeling away from the substrate. With Cover’s laminate tops, once the contact cement fails along an edge, heat and moisture keep working the separation wider. Caulking over it is temporary.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
For a full Cover kitchen remodeling in Orlando, you’re looking at $14,000 – $45,000, with the spread driven mostly by countertop material, cabinet line, and whether we’re reconfiguring the layout or swapping in place. Smaller, component-level jobs land lower: cabinet installation alone typically runs $4,000 – $13,000, countertops $2,000 – $6,500, and a new island $3,000 – $10,000. Every number we hand you is a written fixed price, not a range that shifts after demo day. That means parts, labor, disposal, and any adjustments to the existing frames are already in the figure. The 365-Day Done Right Promise covers the work in writing: if a hinge binds, a drawer sticks, or a seam separates inside the first year, we come back and make it right at no charge.
DIY or Call Us?
Some of this work is genuinely approachable if you’re patient: swapping a blown soft-close hinge, for instance, is a screwdriver job on most Cover models, and replacing a drawer glide requires only a level and a drill. Where DIY goes sideways is with cabinet boxes that have absorbed moisture, countertop removal that’s glued to base cabinets, and any work that involves lifting stone or quartz. A Cambria or Silestone slab is two or three hundred pounds; a dropped corner doesn’t just crack the counter, it can destroy the cabinet below. For anything involving stone, gas line clearances, or full cabinet disassembly, we’d rather you call us at (850) 427-6454 and let our background-checked, uniformed crew handle it. Give you the number first, then pick up the tool.
FAQs
Fifteen to twenty years is realistic for Original equipment Cover cabinetry in Orlando, though the hinges and drawer glides usually need replacement around the eight to twelve year mark. The Florida humidity shortens the life of any edge band that gets scratched or nicked, since moisture finds its way into the wood fiber fast once the seal breaks. Door and drawer fronts typically fail before the cabinet boxes do. Call (850) 427-6454 for an in-person assessment and a written price.
Often, yes. Where the face frame and cabinet box are sound, we can replace doors, drawer fronts, and hardware and bring the whole kitchen back to life for a fraction of a full remodel. The decision comes down to the cabinet box: if it’s swollen, musty, or pulling apart at the joints, patching the cosmetic layer won’t hold. Call (850) 427-6454 and we’ll tell you honestly whether your boxes are worth saving.
Component-level work like cabinet door replacement, hinge swaps, or backsplash installs typically lands in the one to three day range. A full kitchen with countertop templating, Island construction, and layout changes runs three to six weeks. We’ll give you a written schedule with a defined arrival window before we start, and we stick to it. Call (850) 427-6454 to talk through your timeline.
We keep the most common Cover hardware in the truck: 35mm soft-close hinges, Blum and Salice drawer glides in 18-inch and 21-inch depths, and a range of finish-matched touch-up kits. We also regularly order KraftMaid and Cambria components for kitchens where the homeowner is mixing brands. If we don’t have your exact part, we can have it from a Florida supplier within days, not weeks.
Written by Trevor Nash, Owner, Penhallow Remodeling Orlando at Penhallow Remodeling Orlando, serving Orlando and nearby areas.
