Cabinet Refacing in Ajax — The Boxes Stay, the Fronts Change
Ajax is the far eastern end of what we cover, and the drive is the only thing it changes. The doors are built to your openings the same way they are ten minutes from the shop.
Before 
After Fixed price
From photographs, inside 24 hours
5 days
Without a kitchen, of four to five weeks
15 years
On waterproof MDF doors
4.9
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Refacing in Ajax
Ajax is the furthest east we go, out past Pickering and into Durham, and it is the only part of the service area reached by driving away from the 400s rather than up them.
Most of what we are asked about here is north of Taunton, in the subdivisions that went up through the 2000s and are now old enough for the kitchens to look dated without being worn. Those boxes are not tired. They are plywood or furniture-board carcasses, screwed level, carrying doors in whatever finish the builder was buying that year — dark espresso, most often, which is the single most common thing anyone asks us to change. The frames behind the fronts have years left.
The one thing neither refinishing nor refacing fixes is a room that is the wrong shape. If the complaint is really that the island is too small or the run is too short, the answer is joinery, not a finish — which is exactly what happened here, and it is priced as its own line rather than folded into the paint.
What an Ajax kitchen actually looked like
There is one on this site rather than a description of one. Project 66 is on Hanaway Drive, up by Taunton and Middlecote: an espresso kitchen refinished white, doors and drawer fronts taken to the shop and the frames and side panels sprayed in the house, with thirty-one new knobs and handles on it.
The part worth knowing is the island. It was not replaced — it was made longer. One cabinet was added to the end of the run that was already there and a new post put in to carry the overhang, so a single continuous top could sit across the old cabinetry and the new. That is joinery rather than decorating: the new box has to land level with a run somebody else built years earlier, to no drawing anyone has, and the join has to disappear under one piece of stone.
It is also the reason the estimate for it said the price would move once the design was settled, which is the honest way to quote something that has not been drawn yet.
Why this one was refinished rather than refaced
Nothing was replaced on the Hanaway Drive kitchen except the handles. The doors that came off it went back on it — stripped, sprayed in the booth, rehung on the frames they were hung on before.
That is worth saying plainly on a refacing page, because refacing is the more expensive answer and it is not always the right one. A door only needs replacing if it is failing or you dislike its shape. Espresso slab and shaker fronts from the 2000s are usually neither: they are flat, they are square, they are structurally fine, and the only thing wrong with them is a colour that dated. Strip that colour off and you have a kitchen that photographs like a new one for a good deal less than a new one costs.
Where refacing earns its price is the other case — a raised-panel oak door with a grain you cannot bury, a warped front, a profile that is the whole problem. We will say which one you have from the photographs, and we would rather say "refinish it" and quote less than talk you into fronts you did not need.
Refinishing and refacing are two different answers
Ajax is the page where the difference matters most, because the kitchen we did here took the cheaper of the two routes and did not need the other. Doors in good condition with a profile you can live with get refinished — stripped, sprayed, rehung. Doors that are swollen, delaminating or a shape you have stopped liking get replaced, and only then is it refacing. Same crew, same booth, different bill. how the three routes are decided sets out how that call gets made from photographs, before anyone is committed to either.
Questions
Common questions about cabinet refacing in Ajax
- Ajax is a long way east — does that cost more?
- No. Travel is ours to absorb and it is not a line on the quote. What you are charged for is the count of doors and drawers and the days spent on site, which are the same whether the van turns east on the 401 or north on the 400.
- Have you actually worked in Ajax, or is this just a page?
- Yes — a kitchen on Hanaway Drive in Northeast Ajax, up by Taunton. Dark espresso sprayed white, thirty-one new handles, and the island extended by a cabinet. It is project 66 in our work, walkthrough and all.
- Can you make an existing island bigger rather than replacing it?
- Sometimes, and the Ajax kitchen is the example. One cabinet was added to the end of the island that was already there and a post put in to carry the overhang, so a single run of quartz sits across both. The half nearest the sink is the original cabinetry, sprayed to match the half that is new.
- How long is the kitchen out of action?
- It is not, for most of it. The doors go to the booth and the kitchen keeps working without them for around ten business days — you lose the fronts, not the room. The disruptive part is the on-site spraying at the end, which is a handful of days behind containment.
- How does the quote work if you are not coming to see it first?
- Wide photographs of every run of cabinet, and a written price back inside 24 to 48 hours, itemised rather than a single number. It does not move after it is sent, and if refacing is wrong for your boxes that is what you will hear.
Wondering what your Ajax kitchen would cost?
Send wide photographs of every run of cabinet and a written price comes back inside 24 hours, which does not change afterwards. If refacing is the wrong call for your boxes, that is the first thing you will hear.
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