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CGI Construction in Pomona, CA | Daly City Construction
We provide independent CGI cabinetry and countertop installation, repair, and remodeling across Pomona and nearby areas like CGI in La Verne, and the work we do here usually starts with the slab. Most homes in Pomona were built between the 1950s and 1970s on expansive clay soil, so CGI cabinet runs often sit on floors that have settled, tilted, or cracked over the decades. That means we’re leveling and re-shimming before we hang a single door, because a cabinet that’s square on a crooked slab will sag and rack within a year. Call (866) 505-5254 for a free on-site estimate.
Why Pomona Residents Choose Us for CGI Service
We’ve spent years working with CGI’s all-plywood RTA lines, their semi-custom wood-door series, and their quartz and granite countertop program inside Pomona’s tract and ranch homes. We know how those finishes behave here, where summer heat bakes west-facing kitchens and rare winter rain finds every weak spot in a slab-on-grade floor. CGI sales & service is a core part of what we do, but our approach isn’t retail. We’re a general contractor that installs and repairs the product, not a showroom that just sells boxes.
Noel Cabrera grew up in the Westlake district of Daly City, watching his uncle re-frame a garage and learning that straight framing and level runs come before anything cosmetic. Same principle applies in Pomona. When we set a CGI cabinet line here, we shim it to the actual floor plane, not the wall or the existing toe kick. That’s the difference between a kitchen that looks good on completion day and one that still works five years later.
We’re not authorized, sponsored, or endorsed by CGI. We say that plainly because it matters when you’re deciding who to trust. What we are is an independent contractor that sources OEM CGI doors, drawer boxes, hinges, and slides where they’re still available, and quality aftermarket hardware where OEM has been discontinued. If your budget leans value-tier, we’ll tell you. If the slab has moved too far for a repair-only approach, we’ll tell you that too.
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Common CGI Construction Problems We Solve in Pomona
- Toe-kick and box swelling on slab-on-grade installs. When a slow supply-line or dishwasher leak has nowhere to drain, water sits against the bottom of the cabinet. CGI particleboard core and MDF door edges wick that moisture up and swell before anything shows from below. We see this constantly in Pomona’s 1960s ranch kitchens.
- Door and drawer-front sag from settling slabs. The expansive clay under Pomona moves with moisture swings, and older homes move with it. If a CGI run was shimmed to a slab that later dropped an eighth of an inch, the doors shift out of plane and start rubbing or refusing to close. We re-level, re-shim, and replace only the components that failed.
- Finish checking and fading on west- and south-facing kitchens. Inland summer heat plus Santa Ana wind events bake CGI wood fronts and painted finishes. The coating checks, cracks, and dulls faster on the sun side. We match existing finishes where possible and use UV-tolerant coating systems when we refinish.
- Quartz and granite seam separation over unlevel runs. A CGI countertop is only as flat as the cabinet run under it. Where an unpermitted addition or a settling slab left the substrate out of flat, seams open and edges chip. We flatten the run first, then set the stone.
- Racked boxes behind unpermitted garage conversions. Pomona’s older tracts carry a lot of 1980s – 2000s unpermitted work. When a kitchen shares a wall with one of those conversions, the original framing often wasn’t engineered for the load. We’ve pulled CGI cabinets off walls that needed structural correction before the line could be reset.
CGI Service in Pomona: What Local Conditions Mean for Your Equipment
Pomona’s housing stock is dominated by single-story ranch and tract homes built from the 1950s through the 1970s, most of them slab-on-grade with original galvanized plumbing and foundations sitting on expansive clay. That’s not a generic California condition. In a neighboring city with crawl spaces or newer construction, a kitchen leak drains down and shows itself. Here, water sits against the slab and migrates sideways into the toe kick of a CGI run, swelling the box from the bottom up while the floor looks dry. We work in 91766, 91767, 91768, and 91769, and the older the street, the more often we find this exact failure pattern. The clay also shrinks and swells with the seasons, so a slab that measured level in March can drop a quarter inch by October. Any CGI installation we do in Pomona starts with a level check across the entire run, and we record those numbers so we can see movement if you call us back in two years.
On a 1960s ranch off the 91767 side of town, a CGI cabinet run had swollen at the toe kick from a slow leak under a slab-on-grade kitchen, and the doors were racking because the run was shimmed to a settling slab. We pulled the affected boxes, dried and treated the substrate, re-leveled the run with proper shims, and set new CGI doors and drawer fronts with quartz tops. We also flagged the unpermitted garage conversion behind the kitchen so the homeowner could legalize it before the sale.
CGI Models & Products We Service in Pomona
We work on CGI’s Ready-to-Assemble all-plywood kitchen cabinet lines, their semi-custom wood-door series with raised-panel and shaker fronts, the granite and quartz countertop program, and their vanity and bath cabinet lines. Our parts approach is repair-first: we keep a working inventory of OEM CGI doors, drawer boxes, hinges, and slides for the lines most commonly installed in Pomona homes over the last fifteen years. When OEM is discontinued or the original hardware was the weak point, we move to aftermarket components that match the finish and improve the durability. We don’t replace a sound CGI box just to sell a new kitchen. We replace what failed and re-level what moved.
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What we quote in Pomona depends on what the slab and substrate look like once we open things up. A cabinet swap on a flat floor is one price. A cabinet swap on a settled slab that needs re-leveling, substrate repair, and code correction behind the wall is a different scope entirely. Here’s the honest range for the CGI work we do most often:
| Service | Typical Pomona Range |
|---|---|
| Kitchen Remodel | $14,000 – $45,000 |
| Small Kitchen Remodel | $9,000 – $20,000 |
| Cabinet Installation | $4,000 – $13,000 |
| Countertop Installation | $2,000 – $6,500 |
| Backsplash Installation | $800 – $2,500 |
| Bathroom Remodel | $9,000 – $28,000 |
| Bathroom Vanity Installation | $800 – $3,000 |
A free estimate from us means we come out, take level readings, check the slab, and look at what’s behind the walls before we hand you a number. We don’t bid sight unseen on Pomona’s older homes because we know what’s waiting in there. Call (866) 505-5254 to schedule yours.
Serving Pomona, CA — Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Pomona 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 Pomona
Yes. We’ve done it many times across Pomona’s 1950s – 1970s ranch tracts and for homeowners seeking Los Serranos CGI service. The key is that we don’t set the cabinet run to the wall; we level it to the actual floor plane, using shims at every point the slab has moved. If the slab has settled too far for shims to correct, we’ll tell you before ordering any CGI components. Call (866) 505-5254 and we’ll take level readings and give you a straight answer.
In most cases, repair. We pull the affected boxes, dry and treat the substrate, replace only the swollen toe kick, box, or door that failed, and re-level the run. If the moisture damage reached the structural box and the material has lost integrity, we’ll replace that section and match the existing finish. Call (866) 505-5254 for a free assessment, and we’ll tell you which path makes sense before you spend a dollar.
We do. Pomona’s older tracts routinely carry unpermitted room additions and garage conversions from the 1980s – 2000s, and any CGI kitchen or bath remodel in these homes often becomes a code-correction job. We scope and permit the legalization before we set a single cabinet box, because the layout, egress, and sometimes the structural wall itself have to change first. It adds time and permits, but it protects you when you sell.
They will if they’re finished and maintained correctly. The failure we see in Pomona is heat- and UV-driven finish checking on west- and south-facing runs that get direct afternoon sun. We recommend and apply UV-tolerant coating systems when we install or refinish CGI wood fronts in those exposures, and we’ll tell you honestly which finish upgrades are worth the money here.
No. We’re an independent contractor. We’re not authorized, sponsored, or endorsed by CGI, and we’ve never claimed to be. What that means for you is that our quote reflects the actual condition of your Pomona home, not a manufacturer’s channel incentives. We use OEM CGI parts where they’re still available and better aftermarket components where they’re not.
Service Areas Near Pomona
We serve Pomona and keep jobs moving anywhere nearby that shares the same slab-on-grade ranch stock and clay soil. If you’re up toward Pomona service area boundaries or out near Chino, Montclair, Claremont, La Verne, or San Dimas, call us and we’ll tell you if we can get a crew there. For CGI work further out, see our CGI service in Oak Hills and CGI service in Spring Valley Lake pages.
Book Your CGI Service in Pomona Today
Tell me what the house needs, not what you think it needs, then we’ll figure out the right fix. Call (866) 505-5254 and we’ll set a time to come out, take level readings, check the slab, and give you a written estimate.
Written by Noel Cabrera, Owner at Daly City Construction, serving Pomona since day one.