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CGI Construction in Tiburon, CA | Workshop Contractors
We provide independent CGI cabinet and surface installation, refacing, and repair across Tiburon as your Tiburon General Contractor, and the thing that separates our CGI work here is simple: we understand how these products fail on hillside lots with fog-belt humidity and town-mandated drainage review. Most CGI cabinetry holds up well, but when it doesn’t in Tiburon, the cause is almost always water, slope movement, or a remodel that skipped the subfloor. Call (844) 384-3361 to have someone who’s actually worked these hills take a look.
We’re an independent contractor, not authorized or sponsored by CGI, and we’ve been installing and finishing their cabinet lines in Marin County long enough to know when a repair beats a replacement. If you’re planning our Home Remodeling in Tiburon in ZIP 94920, we can walk you through the product choices, the town review process, and what the fog means for your install timeline.
Why Tiburon Residents Choose Us for CGI Service
We source and install CGI’s Ready-to-Assemble shaker and flat-panel lines, their all-wood pre-assembled plywood-box series, and the quartz surfacing their dealer partners sell. That’s the product side. What matters more in Tiburon is that we’ve watched these materials perform in houses built into 20%+ slopes, where drainage backups and seismic settling create failures you won’t see in flatland Marin, including Marin City CGI service areas. Noel Figueroa, our owner, grew up around tradesmen who framed half the houses on his street, and he learned early that a cabinet is only as sound as the wall and floor behind it. Build it right the first time. The second time costs twice as much and nobody’s happy about it.
We’re a single-source general contractor, which means your CGI kitchen or bath doesn’t get handed off between a cabinet installer, a countertop fabricator, and a drainage contractor. One team handles the whole scope, from the roof down to the pavers. For more on how we approach the full range of CGI sales & service, including material selection and finish work, see our brand overview.
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Common CGI Construction Problems We Solve in Tiburon
- Swollen toe kicks and sink bases. When a Tiburon hillside home’s original drainage backs up during winter rain, moisture wicks straight into particleboard or MDF cabinet boxes at the floor line. The toe kick swells first, then the sink base follows. We see this most often in split-levels from the 1970s whose drain lines were never upgraded to current code.
- Door and drawer faces warping on bay-facing walls. Fog-driven humidity swings and direct afternoon sun hit the same exterior wall through the day in Tiburon. That’s a brutal cycle for cabinet faces, and we’ve seen CGI doors delaminate at the edges when the wall behind them lacks proper insulation or vapor control.
- Boxes racking out of square after hillside movement. Foundation shifts are a reality on Tiburon’s slopes. The cabinet is often fine; the wall behind it moved. Drawers stop self-closing, face frames pull at the joints, and the fix starts with checking whether the structure is still moving before we re-square anything.
- Quartz seams separating over un-leveled subfloors. If a remodel set counters over a floor that wasn’t re-leveled in a split-level with original framing, the seam will open eventually. We inspect the floor before we ever set stone, because in Tiburon the floor is usually the problem, not the countertop.
- Hardware failure in salt-adjacent air. Hinges and slides wear faster near the bay than they do inland. We stock equivalent-quality replacements and use CGI’s own hardware when the box is sound and the lead time won’t stall the project.
CGI Service in Tiburon: What Local Conditions Mean for Your Equipment
Here’s something you only learn by working in this town: Tiburon’s design review and hillside ordinances routinely require retaining walls and drainage plans to be approved before a foundation pour. On a CGI kitchen or bath remodel, that means we often can’t open the floor for cabinet layout until the town signs off on grading and drainage. It adds a review phase no flatland Marin project carries, and it changes the order of operations. We plan the cabinet spec around the drainage plan, not the other way around. On a split-level rancher off the Old St. Hilary’s slope side of town, we opened a 1970s kitchen to find the original drainage had let water reach the toe kick, so the CGI RTA sink base was swollen and the drawers below the counter wouldn’t close. We tied the downspouts and regraded the exterior drain line, replaced the water-damaged boxes with plywood-box CGI cabinets, refaced the sound uppers, and set a new quartz counter over a re-leveled subfloor, with the town’s drainage plan approved before we touched the slab.
That sequence matters because a neighbor with the same cabinet failure over in Strawberry, Belvedere, or CGI in Chinatown might not face the same review gate. In Tiburon, the hillside ordinance is the project’s first constraint, not an afterthought. We plan for it from day one, and our CGI installs are better for it.
CGI Models & Products We Service in Tiburon
We service and install the full CGI range you’ll find specified in Tiburon remodels: the Ready-to-Assemble shaker and flat-panel cabinet lines, the all-wood pre-assembled series with plywood box construction, quartz countertop surfacing from their dealer partners, and the refacing and door-and-drawer-front replacement kits. When a box is sound, we use CGI’s own replacement doors, drawer boxes, and hardware. When OEM lead times would stall a kitchen, we spec equivalent-quality hinges, slides, and levelers so your project doesn’t sit idle. We keep common hardware and leveling stock on our trucks for faster turnaround on hillside jobs, where every day of delay means another day of dust control and wet-season risk.
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What you’ll pay depends on scope, not on us padding a bid. A full kitchen remodel with CGI cabinets and quartz typically runs $14,000 to $45,000. Cabinet installation alone lands between $4,000 and $13,000. Countertop installation runs $2,000 to $6,500. A full bathroom remodel with CGI vanities and surfaces sits between $9,000 and $28,000, and a smaller kitchen refresh starts around $9,000.
| Service | Typical Range in Tiburon |
|---|---|
| Kitchen Remodel | $14,000 – $45,000 |
| Small Kitchen Remodel | $9,000 – $20,000 |
| Cabinet Installation | $4,000 – $13,000 |
| Countertop Installation | $2,000 – $6,500 |
| Bathroom Remodel | $9,000 – $28,000 |
What drives the number in Tiburon specifically is the hillside factor: how much drainage work the town requires before we open walls, whether the subfloor needs leveling, and how much of the existing cabinet infrastructure we can reuse. A free estimate includes a straight read on which of those apply to your house. Call (844) 384-3361 to schedule one.
Serving Tiburon, CA — Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Tiburon area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage — if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs – CGI Construction in Tiburon
Yes, in almost every case where the lot slopes. Tiburon’s design review and hillside ordinances require retaining wall and drainage plan approval before any foundation or subfloor work, which means the cabinet layout gets locked in after the town signs off, not before. We handle that sequence as part of the scope. Call (844) 384-3361 to find out what applies to your parcel.
Water is reaching the base, almost always through an original drain line that backed up or a hillside runoff path the house wasn’t graded for. Swelling at the toe kick and sink base is a symptom of drainage failure, not cabinet failure. We fix the drainage first, then replace or reface the boxes. Call (844) 384-3361 and we’ll trace the water before quoting any cabinet work.
If the boxes are still square and free of water damage, yes. We use CGI’s own door and drawer-front replacement kits. If the boxes have racked or swelled, refacing won’t hold, and we’ll tell you that straight. The first step is checking whether the structure behind the cabinets is still moving.
It changes curing windows for adhesives and finishes, and it means exterior-facing walls need proper vapor control behind the cabinets. We schedule installs around fog patterns and use materials rated for the humidity swings that hit bay-facing walls hardest.
No. We’re an independent general contractor who installs and services CGI products. We’re not authorized, sponsored, or endorsed by CGI. We recommend their products where they fit, and we’ll recommend a different approach when they don’t. Call (844) 384-3361 if you want an honest read on your project.
Service Areas Near Tiburon
We serve Tiburon and the surrounding Marin communities, including Tiburon service area coverage across 94920. If you’re across the water or just over the ridge, we also handle CGI service in Belvedere and CGI service in Sausalito. Same hillside realities, different review boards.
Book Your CGI Service in Tiburon Today
If your CGI cabinets are swelling, racking, or just showing their age on a hillside lot, call (844) 384-3361. We’ll schedule a free estimate, look at the drainage and the structure behind the cabinets, and give you a written line-item quote.
Written by Noel Figueroa, Owner at Workshop Contractors, serving Tiburon and Marin County since he first swung a framing hammer.