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Boral Kitchen Remodeling: The Long Beach Owner’s Guide

If you have Boral cabinetry, countertops, or trim in your Long Beach kitchen and a door face is delaminating, a drawer glide has given out, or a panel has swelled from moisture, we can match the part and install it for a typical cost of $200 – $1,200 per component depending on what failed. Boral parts are proprietary to their cabinet and moulding lines, which means a generic hardware-store fix usually won’t sit flush or match the finish, so we carry common Boral-compatible replacement parts on our trucks for Long Beach jobs and can order anything uncommon within a few business days. Most owners discover the failure the way you probably did: a door that won’t close square anymore, a drawer that catches mid-pull, or a water-damaged toe kick under the sink.

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Which Boral Models This Applies To

Boral makes two product families that show up in Long Beach kitchens. The first is Boral cabinet doors and drawer fronts, which use a specific hinge boring pattern (35mm cup, with the cup center 3 – 5mm from the door edge) and a Melamine or thermofoil face that is heat-fused, not painted. The second is Boral trim, moulding, and wainscoting, which runs in a 5/8-inch thickness profile that differs from the 3/4-inch standard most lumberyards stock in Long Beach. Before you order anything, look at the inside of the cabinet door or the back of a drawer front: Boral stamps a series code there, usually beginning with “B” followed by four digits. That code tells us the profile, finish, and production run. On older Boral kitchens from the early 2000s, the hinges are often Salice or Blum with a Boral-specific mounting plate, and swapping in a different plate changes the overlay by 2 – 3mm, which is enough to make a door hang crooked. For the trim, measure the actual thickness with a caliper if you have one. If it reads 5/8″, it’s Boral, and a box-store 3/4″ replacement will stand proud of the wall and look wrong. We install OEM Boral parts when finish match matters most, and we’re comfortable recommending quality aftermarket equivalents for hidden hardware like drawer slides and hinge arms where the visual match is irrelevant. Elmstead Remodeling Long Beach is an independent remodeling contractor, not a Boral dealer or affiliate, but we’ve matched enough Boral parts over the years to know what fits and what just looks like it fits.

Signs Your Boral Kitchen Remodeling Is Failing

• The cabinet door won’t close flush anymore. The hinge arm has lost its tension or the mounting plate has shifted, which happens after years of daily use. On Boral doors the gap usually shows first at the top corner, because that’s where the hinge takes the most load.
• A drawer catches partway and then slams shut. One of the slides has a bent or worn roller. Boral drawers from the mid-2010s commonly used side-mount epoxy-coated slides, and once one roller loses its coating, the drawer will never pull smoothly again until the slide is replaced.
• The thermofoil face is peeling at the edges. This is heat and humidity working on the adhesive bond. In Long Beach, kitchens near the coast see this sooner because of salt air and moisture swings, especially on doors above the dishwasher or next to a stove.
• A kick plate or side panel has swollen at the bottom. Water wicked in from a sink leak, a pet water bowl, or repeated mopping. Boral’s particleboard core swells irreversibly once moisture breaches the edge banding, and the only real fix is a new panel.
• The finish has worn through at the finger pull or knob area. The thermofoil on Boral doors is durable but not indestructible. Once the foil wears through to the core, you’ll see it flake back in sheets, and touch-up paint won’t bond to the exposed substrate.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

In Long Beach, replacing a single Boral cabinet door face typically runs $200 – $450 installed, a drawer front $150 – $350, and a set of drawer slides $80 – $200 per drawer including parts and labor. Full Boral cabinet re-facing, where all doors and drawer fronts get replaced but the boxes stay, lands between $4,000 and $13,000 depending on kitchen size. A full Boral-compatible kitchen remodel in Long Beach runs $14,000 – $45,000, which includes new cabinet components, countertops, hardware, and installation. What drives the range is finish matching: if we can order a current-production Boral door in your existing finish, the price stays low. If your finish is discontinued and we need to match it by taking a sample to a finish shop, that adds $40 – $80 per door. Every estimate includes parts, labor, disposal of the old components, and shoe covers and drop cloths on the floors while we work. The price Graham Stein writes down on day one is the price on the invoice when we’re done, and the finished work carries the 365-Day Done Right Promise: if something isn’t right after we leave, we make it right.

DIY or Call Us?

You can safely remove a Boral drawer front with a Phillips screwdriver and check whether a slide is just clogged with debris. That’s about where I’d stop. Adjusting Boral hinges to fix a crooked door looks easy, but over-adjusting one screw throws off the other axis, and before long you’ve stripped the mounting threads and need a new hinge and plate. Replacing a swollen kick plate means cutting a new panel to a scribed line that follows your floor, which in older Long Beach homes is rarely level. And matching a Boral thermofoil finish by eye is genuinely hard because the color shifts in different light. If you want to try the simple adjustments, go slow. If it’s anything involving a new panel cut, a hinge replacement, or a finish match, call (562) 512-7086 and we’ll bring the right part and the right tools.