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CGI Construction in Aptos, CA | Daly City Construction
We provide independent CGI cabinet installation, refacing, and full kitchen remodeling across Aptos, including the Rio Del Mar flats, Seacliff, and the redwood canyons off Valencia Road. For homeowners needing CGI repair in Aptos Hills-Larkin Valley, we cover those hillside communities too. If your CGI cabinets are swelling, racking, or dragging, the cause here is rarely the hardware alone. It’s usually moisture, salt air, or hillside movement working against the boxes. Call (866) 505-5254 for a free estimate, and we’ll tell you what’s actually happening before you spend a dollar.
Daly City Construction handles CGI sales & service work throughout Aptos service area as an independent contractor. We install and repair the product line weekly, but we are not authorized, sponsored, or warranty-backed by the manufacturer. What we are is honest about what holds up here.
Why Aptos Residents Choose Us for CGI Service
We’ve spent years installing, refacing, and retrofitting CGI cabinetry across Santa Cruz County’s coastal and canyon homes. That time has taught us exactly how these boxes, hinges, and drawer systems behave once marine-layer humidity and hillside settling get involved. Noel Cabrera, our owner, trained in construction technology at City College of San Francisco and has spent years swinging a hammer on residential work across San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties. He’ll tell you straight: a particleboard cabinet box on a west-facing wall in Rio Del Mar is a moisture problem waiting to happen, and refacing it without fixing the moisture source is throwing good money after bad.
We spec OEM CGI hinges, glides, and shelf hardware when the box and finish are sound. When the OEM line is discontinued or the originals have already failed twice, we switch to quality aftermarket hardware and explain why. If the box has swollen or delaminated, we tell you straight. Refacing a failing CGI box just traps the moisture problem behind a new door.
Styles & brands we work with
Common CGI Construction Problems We Solve in Aptos
- Swelling at the toe kick on north- and west-facing walls. Rio Del Mar cottages sit in marine-layer fog that never fully dries the exterior wall a cabinet run sits against. Particleboard or MDF-core CGI boxes wick that moisture, and the first visible sign is usually a toe kick that no longer sits flush.
- Soft-close hinges and drawer glides seizing within a few years. Salt air off Monterey Bay corrodes hardware fast on Seacliff-flat properties. Under-sink cabinets compound the problem because humidity pools there. We replace seized glides with corrosion-resistant aftermarket options when the OEM line has already failed once.
- Frameless cabinet boxes racking out of square. Hillside homes on pier-and-grade-beam foundations move seasonally. That movement racks cabinet boxes, so doors and drawers start to drag. The cabinet isn’t necessarily ruined, but the installation method matters more on a slope than on a slab.
- Sagging shelves and failed shelf pins in older CGI pantries. Redwood-canyon cabins get near-annual needle drop and gutter overflow, which pushes moisture into the kitchen wall cavity. Older CGI upper cabinets with particleboard shelf stock sag under that slow moisture load, and the pins eventually give way.
- Upper cabinet runs pulling loose from the wall. This is common in canyon homes where decades of fog and duff have quietly rotted the wood behind the cabinet. The boxes may look fine from the front, but the wall behind them is doing nothing.
CGI Service in Aptos: What Local Conditions Mean for Your Equipment
Aptos is unincorporated, so every kitchen or bath project here is permitted through Santa Cruz County rather than a city building department. If you’re working with an Aptos General Contractor, they’ll need to navigate the same county process. On canyon and ridge lots, the county review routinely pulls in geotechnical and fire-safe detailing that a flatland city permit never would. That can reshape cabinet layout and wall penetrations before a single CGI box is ordered. We’ve seen county reviewers require specific wall-anchoring details on hillside kitchens where a pier-and-grade-beam foundation means the cabinet run will move with the structure. On the Rio Del Mar and Seacliff flats, the concern shifts to moisture barriers and ventilation clearances, because the marine layer keeps exterior walls damp for months at a time. Same brand, same cabinet line, two completely different jobs within the same ZIP. Tell me what the house needs, not what you think it needs, then we’ll figure out the right fix.
CGI Models & Products We Service in Aptos
We work across the full CGI cabinet range: Ready-to-Assemble (RTA) all-plywood lines, Euro-style frameless full-overlay cabinets, solid-wood face-frame series, and semi-custom collections with soft-close hardware. Our parts approach is simple. When the box and finish are structurally sound, we install OEM CGI hinges, glides, and shelf hardware for a clean match. When the OEM line is discontinued or the same hinge has failed twice in an Aptos kitchen, we move to quality aftermarket replacements and stop repeating the failure. We keep common hardware in stock for faster turnaround on Aptos jobs, which matters when a kitchen is down to one working drawer.
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What you’ll pay depends on whether we’re refacing, replacing boxes, or doing a full kitchen remodel. The ranges below reflect what we see across Aptos projects. A reface on sound boxes costs far less than a full remodel, and a cabinet run that needs new boxes but keeps the existing layout falls in between. Every estimate is free, line-itemed, and based on what we actually find when we open the wall, not a showroom guess.
| Service | Typical Range |
|---|---|
| Cabinet Installation | $4,000 – $13,000 |
| Countertop Installation | $2,000 – $6,500 |
| Kitchen Remodel | $14,000 – $45,000 |
| Backsplash Installation | $800 – $2,500 |
Call (866) 505-5254 and we’ll walk you through which range fits your Aptos project. The estimate is free, and you’ll get a straight answer about whether the boxes are worth saving.
Serving Aptos, CA — Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Aptos 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 Aptos
Yes. Aptos is unincorporated, so all permitting runs through Santa Cruz County, not a city building department. For most cabinet replacements, the permit is straightforward. But if your project includes wall penetrations, electrical changes, or structural work on a hillside lot, expect geotechnical or fire-safe review. We pull permits on every job that requires them, and we’ll tell you upfront whether yours does. Call (866) 505-5254 to discuss your specific scope.
Sticking doors on Rio Del Mar flats are usually moisture-driven swelling, not a hinge problem. The marine layer keeps north- and west-facing exterior walls damp for months, and particleboard or MDF-core boxes absorb that moisture along the back panel. When the box swells, the door reveals close up. The fix starts with finding the moisture source, then deciding whether the boxes can be dried, reshimmed, or need replacement.
Only if the box itself is still structurally sound. We see plenty of under-sink CGI cabinets in Aptos where the finish is ruined but the plywood box is intact. In those cases, refacing works and we spec OEM or quality aftermarket hinges accordingly. But if the box has delaminated or swollen past the point where fasteners hold, refacing just hides the problem behind a new door. We’ll tell you which situation you have before quoting anything. Call (866) 505-5254 for a free inspection.
It will shorten the life of standard hardware, especially on Seacliff-flat properties close to the water. Soft-close hinges and drawer glides with exposed metal parts corrode faster in salt air, and under-sink hardware fails first because humidity compounds there. Our La Selva Beach CGI service sees this accelerated corrosion on nearly every coastal job. We recommend corrosion-resistant aftermarket hardware for coastal Aptos kitchens when the OEM parts have already failed once. On canyon homes set back from the bluffs, the bigger threat is moisture from fog and needle-choked gutters, not salt.
Most Aptos CGI projects fall between $4,000 and $45,000, depending on scope. A basic cabinet installation on existing boxes runs $4,000 to $13,000. Countertops add $2,000 to $6,500. A full kitchen remodel with CGI cabinets, countertops, and backsplash ranges from $14,000 to $45,000. Your exact number depends on what we find when we open the wall. Call (866) 505-5254 for a line-item estimate, free.
Service Areas Near Aptos
We serve Aptos, Rio Del Mar, Seacliff, and the canyon neighborhoods off Valencia Road. We also work regularly in CGI service in Morgan Hill and CGI service in Rio Del Mar. If your home is tucked into the redwoods off Aptos Creek, we work there too.
Book Your CGI Service in Aptos Today
If your CGI cabinets are swelling, dragging, or pulling loose, don’t wait for a door to fall off in front of company. Call (866) 505-5254 to schedule your free estimate. We’ll come out, open the wall if needed, and give you a straight answer about what the house actually needs.
Written by Noel Cabrera, Owner at Daly City Construction, serving Aptos and the surrounding Santa Cruz County communities.