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Cover Kitchen Remodeling: The Fort Lauderdale Owner’s Guide
A full Cover kitchen remodeling project in Fort Lauderdale typically runs $14,000 to $45,000 installed, and most homeowners discover they need us not because the kitchen stopped working, but because the parts that hold it together quietly failed over years of humidity and daily use. Hinges worn loose, drawer slides that catch, cabinet boxes swollen at the base from sink splashes, countertops that have lost their seal and started absorbing stains. You’ll usually notice a drawer that doesn’t close right or a cabinet door that hangs a little crooked before you notice the bigger problem behind it.
We are an independent kitchen remodeling contractor in Fort Lauderdale. We are not affiliated with Cover or any manufacturer, but we work with Cover cabinetry daily and keep the common replacement parts and matching materials on hand or one supplier trip away. If you have a failing Cover kitchen component, we’ll tell you what we found, what it takes to fix it, and what it will cost – before we touch a thing.
Which Cover Models This Applies To
Cover cabinetry spans several series lines, and the parts aren’t always interchangeable between them. The big compatibility gotcha we see in Fort Lauderdale homes is hinge type: older Cover lines used a compact 35mm cup hinge with a screw spacing of 45mm, while newer lines moved to a soft-close hinge with a 48mm mounting pattern. They look almost identical at a glance, and a lot of homeowners buy the wrong one at the big box store, drill new holes, and end up with a door that never sits flush again.
Before you order anything, pull one hinge off the failing door and read the manufacturer stamp on the back plate. Check the cup diameter (nearly always 35mm), the screw spacing, and whether it’s a clip-on or screw-on style. For Cover drawer slides, measure the slide length to the nearest inch and note whether it’s side-mount or under-mount. Under-mount slides are not retrofittable to side-mount boxes without modifying the drawer itself. For Cover-specific door and drawer fronts, the finish code matters more than the model name – the same “white shaker” profile exists in three different Cover finish codes, and they do not match each other under kitchen lighting. When we order replacements, we always match the finish code stamped inside the cabinet box, not the visual color.
We stock OEM Cover hinges and slides on the truck for the most common Fort Lauderdale applications, plus quality aftermarket equivalents from Blum and Salice where the OEM part has been discontinued. If you want the aftermarket route, we’ll show you the difference in feel and warranty before we install anything.
Styles & brands we work with
Signs Your Cover Kitchen Remodeling Is Failing
- Soft-close doors slam or snap shut. The damper inside the hinge has leaked its hydraulic fluid. Once one goes, the others on the same cabinet are usually months behind it. The fix is hinge replacement, not hinge adjustment – adjusting a dead damper just makes the door hang crooked too.
- Drawers bind or drop on one side. The ball-bearing carriage inside the slide has a cracked nylon wheel or a bent track. In Fort Lauderdale’s humidity, steel slides also develop surface rust where the finish has worn through, and that rust grinds the bearings down fast.
- Cabinet bottoms sag or feel spongy under dishes. This is most often moisture damage from years of unsealed sink splash or a slow plumbing drip behind the toe kick. The particleboard core has absorbed water and lost structural strength. You can’t salvage it; the bottom panel gets cut out and replaced with a new sealed panel.
- Hinges keep loosening no matter how many times you tighten them. The screw holes in the cabinet frame have stripped from repeated stress. The real fix is drilling, doweling, and re-seating the screws, or adding a hinge repair plate – not a longer screw, which splits the frame.
- Doors have dropped so far they rub the frame or won’t latch. Beyond hinge wear, this usually means the cabinet box itself has shifted – common in older Fort Lauderdale homes on slab foundations that have settled. We address the hinge geometry first, then check the box for racking before deciding what’s actually wrong.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
In Fort Lauderdale, a component-level Cover kitchen repair – hinge replacement, new drawer slides, one cabinet front, a damaged cabinet box panel – typically runs $400 to $1,800 depending on what failed and how many units it affected. A partial remodel touching multiple cabinets, countertops, or a full run of doors and drawer fronts falls between $9,000 and $20,000. A full Cover kitchen remodel with new cabinet boxes, countertops, backsplash, and island runs $14,000 to $45,000, which is the range you’ll get from any honest contractor working this market.
What drives the spread? Material grade on countertops (laminate at the bottom of the range, quartz from Cambria or Silestone higher up), whether you’re reusing the existing cabinet boxes or replacing them, linear footage of backsplash, and whether any electrical or plumbing rough-in needs to move. Every Mason Remodeling Co Fort Lauderdale project includes a written price before work starts, and every repair and remodel is covered by the 365-Day Done Right Promise – if the work isn’t right within a year of completion, we make it right at no cost to you.
DIY or Call Us?
You can safely inspect what’s going on with Cover cabinets without special tools. Pull a drawer, look at the slides, open a door and check the hinge stamp. That tells you what family of part you’re dealing with. What we don’t recommend is rebuilding cabinet boxes, replacing under-mount slides without proper jig holes, or pulling countertops – once you get into quartz or granite from Cambria, Silestone, or any other stone supplier, the slab weight and the refinishing of seam work is not a weekend project. A dropped slab destroys flooring and cabinets beneath it, and the repair bill triples.
If the problem is a hinge, a slide, or a cabinet front, we can usually handle it in one visit. If it’s structural – water-damaged boxes, a shifted cabinet run, a countertop that needs resetting – you want a crew that has done it in Fort Lauderdale homes before. Call (754) 354-3720 and we’ll send someone who knows which parts to order before we arrive.
FAQs
Cover cabinet boxes typically last 15 to 25 years in Fort Lauderdale’s climate, but hinges, drawer slides, and soft-close mechanisms usually reach the end of their service life at 7 to 12 years depending on kitchen humidity and daily use. Coastal salt air shortens that further for homes east of US-1. Call (754) 354-3720 and we’ll tell you what’s still good and what’s due for replacement.
In most cases, yes – hinges and slides are always replaceable as individual parts, and damaged cabinet fronts can sometimes be refinished rather than swapped. What can’t be repaired is water-damaged particleboard, which loses structural integrity once the core swells, and soft-close dampers, which are sealed units with no rebuild path. We’ll show you the exact condition of the part before recommending a repair or replacement, and the written price covers whichever route you choose.
A hinge or slide swap across multiple cabinets is usually done in one visit, two to four hours on site. A larger Cover kitchen remodel in Fort Lauderdale, including cabinet, countertop, and backsplash work, typically runs four to eight weeks from start to finish with all Permits pulled and inspections passed. We give you a schedule in writing before work begins, and we stick to it.
We stock common Cover hinges, drawer slides, and finish-matched touch-up materials on our trucks, and anything we don’t carry is ordered through our supplier network – not through a consumer parts website that gets the finish code wrong half the time. You never have to source your own parts, and we won’t install parts you bought online unless we’ve verified the spec matches. Call (754) 354-3720 for a free estimate on any Cover kitchen repair or remodel in Fort Lauderdale.
Written by Isaac Pruett, Owner, Mason Remodeling Co Fort Lauderdale at Mason Remodeling Co Fort Lauderdale, serving Fort Lauderdale and nearby areas.
