06 / Boulder County / Louisville, Superior, Lafayette
Cabinets911 designs, builds and installs custom cabinets in Louisville, CO, and the work here splits into two very different houses: new homes on lots cleared after the Marshall Fire, and the small, older homes around Old Town. In a rebuild, our schedule has to fit someone else's construction calendar. In Old Town, the cabinets have to fit walls that stopped being square decades ago.
The fire on December 30, 2021 destroyed more than a thousand homes across Louisville, Superior and unincorporated Boulder County, the most destructive fire in Colorado's history. Most of those lots have houses on them again; some are still in progress. Plenty of rebuilds had their kitchens picked fast, under insurance deadlines, from whatever the builder's allowance covered. Some owners are now looking at those cabinets with fresh eyes.
Brief 01 / Louisville
A rebuild runs on the general contractor's sequence. Framing, rough plumbing and electrical, insulation, drywall, then cabinets, then counters. Cabinets sit in the middle of that chain, so a late cabinet order stalls the countertop fabricator, the plumber's finish visit and the final inspection behind it.
That's why we ask for the builder's schedule early and a named contact on site. Our design and install process needs the rough-in positions locked before the boxes are built. A sink drain stubbed two inches off center is cheap to move in an open wall. After drywall, it's a patch, a repaint and a lost day for three trades.
Most builders include a cabinet allowance. You can take it, upgrade within it, or carve the kitchen out of the contract and bring in your own cabinet contractor. That last route works only if the builder agrees in writing to rough in to our drawings and schedule counters after our install. Settle it before framing, and plan mudroom lockers or a pantry wall while the studs are still open.
Brief 02 / Louisville
Louisville grew up around coal mining after the late 1870s, and it was never a company town. Miners lived in town, in modest frame houses, and a lot of those still stand on the blocks around Main, Front and Pine streets. Most have been added onto, some more than once.
That history shows up when the old cabinets come off the wall. Kitchens run narrow. Additions meet the original house at a seam where the floor steps or slopes, and a wall that looks straight is often a quarter inch off over eight feet. We scribe panels and fillers to the plaster and shim the run so the countertop reads level even when the room doesn't. In houses this size, good kitchen cabinetry is mostly about not wasting an inch.
Brief 03 / Louisville
Thousands of homes around the burn area were left standing with smoke and ash damage, and some took years to sort out. Ash settles into the toe-kick space, behind the sink base, above the uppers and into the void behind a filler. Raw particleboard edges soak up odor and are nearly impossible to clean.
If a standing home's cabinets were professionally cleaned and still smell when you open them on a warm afternoon, more cleaning probably won't finish the job. That's when cabinet replacement is the honest answer. If the boxes are sealed plywood and pass the sniff test, keep them and spend the money somewhere else.
Response units / Louisville
Here's how each service usually applies to houses in and around Louisville.
Rebuild kitchens drawn to the builder's plan, and Old Town kitchens drawn to walls that aren't square.
Vanities sized for small original baths in Old Town, with blocking planned in new construction.
Easiest to add while a rebuild's walls are still open.
For standing homes where cleaning didn't clear the odor, and rebuild kitchens chosen in a hurry.
Slotted into the builder's sequence so counters and final inspection aren't held up.
We can take the cabinet scope inside a builder's contract, with drawings the builder can schedule around.
Routing
IfYour rebuild hasn't framed yet
ThenGet cabinet drawings done now and give the builder the rough-in sheet.
IfYour rebuild is finished but the kitchen was a rushed allowance pick
ThenList what actually bothers you. It's often one wall of storage and a weak sink base, not the whole room.
IfYou own an Old Town house with an addition
ThenStart with a site measure. The seam between old and new framing sets the layout limits.
IfYour home survived the fire with smoke exposure
ThenOpen every cabinet, check the sink base and toe-kick space, then decide on cleaning or replacement.
Coverage / Boulder County
Louisville, Superior and Lafayette sit side by side in southeast Boulder County, and the burn area crossed the Louisville and Superior town line. Give us your cross streets and builder's name when you reach out.
Call transcript / Louisville
Usually, if the builder agrees before framing. The contract should say who supplies the cabinets, who roughs in to the cabinet drawings and when the counter fabricator measures. We work from the builder's plans and schedule. If the builder won't commit in writing, taking their package and upgrading later may cause less friction. You can request a quote with the plans attached.
Only if something bothers you every day. The usual weak spots in an allowance kitchen are a missing pantry, a dead corner, uppers that stop short of the ceiling and a particleboard sink base. Several of those can be fixed without a full tear-out, and we'll tell you which ones can't.
Not special cabinets. Special fitting. Old Town houses often have walls out of plumb, floors that slope toward an addition and ceilings that change height between rooms. Standard box sizes usually work once the scribe room, shimming and upper heights are planned from a real measure.
Sometimes. Sealed plywood boxes with intact finishes often clean up well. Raw particleboard edges, the back of the sink base and the cavity behind fillers hold ash and odor and are hard to reach. If the smell comes back on warm days after professional cleaning, replacement is the better call. Bring any remediation reports; we'll work from them.
Open a case / 06
Send the floor plan, appliance list and construction schedule, or photos of the kitchen you have now. We'll tell you what fits and when we need to be on site.
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