Cabinet Refacing in Selma, CA

Cabinet refacing in Selma runs into one recurring complication: a great many of the kitchens have already been painted at least once. The post-war tract housing along the Highway 99 corridor here has changed hands repeatedly, and somewhere in that history most of these kitchens received a coat of whatever was on hand. That history is exactly what determines whether a reface will hold.

Why previously painted Selma kitchens need extra prep

Refacing bonds new veneer to your existing face frames, and a bond is only as good as the surface underneath it. When a frame carries two or three layers of old paint, some of it applied over grease without any degreasing, the veneer is not really bonding to the frame at all, it is bonding to the weakest layer in that stack. We strip back to a sound substrate rather than veneering over a questionable paint history, and on Selma tract kitchens that step is frequently the difference between a reface that lasts and one that lifts at the edges within a couple of years.

There is also an age question worth raising directly. Housing built before 1978 may contain lead based paint, and the federal Renovation, Repair and Painting rule governs how work that disturbs painted surfaces in those homes has to be handled. A good portion of central Selma's housing predates that cutoff. We identify the age of the home during the assessment and flag it so the work is scoped under the correct lead safe protocols rather than discovering the issue once sanding has already started.

How we reface in Selma

Frames are degreased and stripped back to a sound substrate before any veneer is applied, because kitchen face frames carry years of cooking film and, in this housing, a layered paint history. New doors and drawer fronts are built to your individually measured openings, exposed ends are skinned to match, and all hardware is replaced with soft close hinges and full extension undermount glides. Most Selma kitchens finish in three to five days on site.