Three long guides covering the questions that actually decide a cabinet budget: what it costs, what California requires of the contractor and the contract, and which tier of cabinet your room needs. Figures name their source. Legal claims quote the statute.
Per linear foot ranges for California, what a full kitchen runs by material, and the line items that quietly move a quote. Every figure names its source.
Read article →Related service: Custom Cabinets→Swapping cabinets in place is exempt finish work under the state code. Moving plumbing, gas or circuits is not. Plus the CSLB licence, the downpayment cap and the cancellation window, quoted from the statute.
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Read article →Related service: Kitchen Cabinets→Three things that decide a cabinet budget: what the work costs, what California and Santa Maria actually require of the contractor and the contract, and which tier of cabinet your room needs. Every dollar figure names its source and every legal claim quotes the statute.
Some are and most are not, and each figure says which. The per linear foot ranges are California statewide, the per cabinet and per material figures are national Thumbtack data, and the refacing figures are modelled for Santa Maria specifically. Labelling them honestly is more useful than pretending a national number is a local quote.
Directly from the code. The permit exemption is California Residential Code section R105.2, the licensing threshold is Business and Professions Code section 7048, the contract requirements are section 7159 and the deposit cap and cancellation rules are section 7159.5. All four are linked from the permit guide so you can read them yourself.
Every figure was verified against its live source when the page was written, and the dateModified in each article's structured data reflects the last revision. Cost sources in particular change, so if a number here differs from the source page today, the source page wins.
Guides tell you whether a number is sane. A measure in your kitchen tells you what your job costs. Send the room and the town.
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