Cabinet Repair in Columbus, Ohio

Transit & Flow Group repairs the structural and functional problems that show up in kitchen and bathroom cabinets across Columbus and Central Ohio: loose face frames, broken or sagging shelves, cracked cabinet boxes, and water damage at the toe kick or base. This is the page for a cabinet that is coming apart, not one that just needs a knob tightened or a door nudged back into square. Describe the problem and add a few photos, and we will tell you what it takes to fix it right.

Is this the right service for you?

Cabinet Repair covers the box itself: the plywood or particleboard structure, the face frame that holds everything square, the shelves inside, and the base where cabinets meet the floor. If your cabinet feels wobbly when you lean on the counter, a shelf has cracked and dropped, water from an old dishwasher or sink leak has swollen the toe kick, or a whole run of cabinets has pulled away from the wall, this is the right page.

If the box itself is sound and the only issue is a door that will not sit flush, drags on the frame, or has a loose hinge, that is a narrower job: see Cabinet-Door Adjustment. If a drawer is sticking, falling off its slides, or the drawer box has come apart at the corners, see Drawer Repair, which covers slide and glide mechanisms specific to drawers. If your cabinets are structurally fine and you just want new knobs or pulls for a cosmetic refresh, that is Cabinet Hardware Installation, not a repair at all. We can usually tell from a couple of photos which category your project falls into, and we will point you to the right page or estimate if you land here by mistake.

How pricing works

Cabinet repair is priced per cabinet or per repair, not as one flat number for the whole kitchen, because a loose face frame and a water-damaged base are very different amounts of work. The logic:

• Scope of damage drives most of the cost: a single loose shelf bracket is a small fix, while a cabinet box swollen from water damage or a run of cabinets pulled away from a wall stud is a larger structural repair.
• Material matters. Solid wood face frames can often be re-glued and clamped; particleboard that has swollen from moisture usually needs the damaged section rebuilt or replaced rather than repaired in place.
• Number of cabinets affected. One cabinet base warped from a dishwasher leak prices differently than an entire lower run damaged by the same event.
• Access and finish matching can add cost when a repaired section needs to be stained or painted to match surrounding cabinetry.

As general market context, Angi reports cabinet repair projects nationally averaging around $280, with a typical range of $200 to $490, single-cabinet repairs running $100 to $500, and multi-cabinet or full-kitchen repairs (8 to 12 cabinets) landing between $1,200 and $4,000 depending on scope. That is not a Transit & Flow quote, it is a national reference point, and your price depends on what we find in your kitchen. $249 minimum visit charge applies, same as every dispatched trip.

Enter your project details and photos in the Estimate Builder for a preliminary online estimate. Final scope and price subject to verification on site.

What’s included

• Inspection of the affected cabinet box, face frame, and shelving to identify the cause, not just the symptom
• Structural repair of face frames, corner blocks, and shelf supports
• Repair or rebuild of water-damaged sections at the toe kick or cabinet base
• Reattachment of cabinets that have pulled away from wall studs
• Wood glue, screws, brackets, and fasteners rated for the repair
• Basic touch-up of repaired wood surfaces to blend with surrounding finish where feasible
• A written scope before work begins, with photos of the damage

What’s not included

• Full cabinet replacement, quoted as a separate project
• Countertop replacement or repair
• Cabinet refacing or refinishing an entire kitchen (a separate scope)
• Cabinet-door adjustment, hardware installation, or drawer slide repair when the box itself is sound (see the sibling pages above)
• Any mold, mildew, or hidden moisture remediation beyond the visible carpentry repair; suspected ongoing moisture issues are flagged for the appropriate specialist

Central Ohio cabinet realities

Kitchens in Clintonville, German Village, Bexley, and other established Central Ohio neighborhoods often still have original cabinetry from the 1950s through the 1980s. That cabinetry was frequently built with solid wood face frames and simple butt joints that have loosened over decades of humidity swings in an unfinished basement below or a bathroom above, and it is common for us to find a face frame that has separated at a corner joint or a shelf that has sagged under decades of dish weight. These older boxes usually repair well because the wood is solid and takes glue and clamping easily.

Newer construction in Dublin, New Albany, and similar developments tends to use manufactured cabinet boxes with particleboard or MDF cores, which hold up fine under normal use but do not tolerate water the way old-growth solid wood does. A slow leak under a sink or behind a dishwasher in one of these kitchens can swell and delaminate a cabinet base within months, and by the time it is visible, the damaged section usually needs to be cut out and rebuilt rather than dried and reglued. Identifying which situation you are in is the first thing our inspection does, before we price anything.

Our process

1. Send photos and a description of the cabinet problem through the Estimate Builder for a preliminary online estimate.
2. On-site inspection. We open the cabinet, check behind and underneath if water damage is suspected, and confirm what caused the problem.
3. Written scope. Each repair priced as its own line, with the cause and fix explained in plain language. Final scope and price subject to verification here.
4. Repair work. Structural fixes first, cosmetic touch-up second, in the order that gets your kitchen functional again fastest.
5. Final check. We test the repaired cabinet under load and walk you through what was done.

Services completed by appropriately qualified professionals where required.