Cabinet Refacing in Markham — The Boxes Stay, the Fronts Change
Same crew, same booth, same fixed price. What changes between one Markham kitchen and the next is the door count and the state of the boxes, and nothing else.
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 Markham
Markham covers about as wide a range of housing stock as anywhere we work, from Unionville's older homes to the large newer builds around Cornell and Wismer.
That spread — decades-earned wear on one end of town, a merely dated door profile on the other — is most of what we are asked to look at across Markham, and both ends of it are exactly the case refacing exists for. The boxes are almost never the problem, in Unionville or in Cornell. A plywood or solid carcass screwed level to a wall does not wear out in twenty years or in ten; the doors, the drawer fronts and the hinges wear, and a colour or a profile dates faster than either, however old the house around it is.
Where we recommend it most often across Markham is a kitchen where the frame has clearly earned its keep and only the front is the argument — which describes a different kind of house depending which part of the city you are in. Where we steer somebody toward something else is a kitchen whose actual complaint is the layout, not the doors, because no amount of new frontage moves a wall, in a 1990s Unionville home or a 2015 build off Cornell.
Two very different reasons to reface, ten minutes apart
Unionville's older streets and the newer ground around Cornell and Wismer are close enough to be the same drive, and they ask for refacing for close to opposite reasons. In Unionville, the doors have usually earned their replacement honestly — decades of use, a profile that dates the whole room, hinges that have been adjusted past the point of adjusting again. Out in the newer builds, the boxes are barely worn in and the complaint is almost always the door style itself: a heavy shaker or a slab profile that read as current when the house was built and does not anymore.
Both are the same job once you are past the diagnosis. What changes is how much convincing a homeowner needs that the boxes underneath are the part worth keeping — Unionville buyers usually arrive already believing it, and Cornell and Wismer buyers sometimes need to be shown, because a ten-year-old kitchen does not look like a candidate for anything until you point at the frame rather than the door.
What decides the price, and what decides the prep
The count of doors and drawers, plus the days on site, is the whole of the price — not the postal code, not which end of Markham the house sits in. A kitchen in Unionville and a kitchen in Cornell with the same count cost the same to reface.
What differs is preparation. An older kitchen that has already been painted once needs degreasing before a new finish will hold to it; a newer kitchen that has only ever had its factory finish usually needs less. Neither is visible in a photograph, which is one reason the written quote sometimes lands differently than a guess would.
Send wide photographs of every run and the price follows inside 24 hours. From there it is roughly four weeks of the doors being built while the kitchen keeps working, then five days of installation. If a kitchen is a poor candidate — a layout that is the real complaint, or boxes that have taken damage — that gets said before the price does, in either part of Markham.
The work does not change because the postcode does
Nothing about the method changes between Markham and anywhere else we work. The doors are made to your openings, the boxes are sprayed rather than wrapped, the finish is catalysed 2K, and the price is fixed from photographs before anyone visits. What changes is the driving. Reading what happens between the first photograph and the finished kitchen is the fastest way to understand what you would actually be buying, and it applies here without amendment.
Questions
Common questions about cabinet refacing in Markham
- Is Unionville treated differently from the newer parts of Markham?
- Not in price or process — both sit in the same Vaughan-and-GTA service area and get the same fixed-price method. The only real difference is what the kitchen usually needs, which the photographs tell us either way.
- My kitchen is only about ten years old — can it still be refaced?
- Almost always, yes. A sound box does not care how old the door style looks; if the carcass is square and the drawers still run true, refacing is usually the right call even on a newer kitchen that just looks dated already.
- Why does the quote sometimes differ from what I expected?
- Preparation is invisible in a photo. A kitchen that has been painted once before needs degreasing that a factory-finished one does not, and that shows up in the written number rather than the picture.
- How is the price actually calculated?
- Door and drawer count, plus a day rate for time on site — itemised, sent within 24 to 48 hours of your photographs, and fixed once you have it.
- What if refacing turns out to be the wrong fit?
- You hear that at the photograph stage, not after paying for anything. A layout problem or water-damaged boxes are not fixed by new fronts, and we say so rather than sell a job that will not hold up.
Wondering what your Markham 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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