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CGI Construction in Tiburon, CA | San Mateo Construction
We’re an independent Tiburon General Contractor and remodeling outfit that works on CGI cabinetry, countertops, and kitchen projects up and down the Tiburon Peninsula. We’re not affiliated with or authorized by CGI, but our crews handle their cabinet lines and surface programs every week. What makes our CGI work different in Tiburon is simple: we know what hillside lots, bayfront moisture, and tight Old-Tiburon streets do to cabinets and countertops before the first box gets unloaded. Call (855) 901-7266 for a free estimate on your kitchen.
Why Tiburon Residents Choose Us for CGI Service
From our Sausalito CGI service area up through Tiburon, homes run the full range, from 1920s shingle-style cottages on hillside lanes to mid-century ranches and new contemporary rebuilds with narrow setbacks. CGI cabinets and countertops show up in every era of that housing stock, and each era fights different problems. Early-1900s kitchens have out-of-square walls. Mid-century frames settle. Newer builds get strong afternoon sun through walls of glass. We’ve worked on all of it.
Noel Carrington, our owner, has spent the better part of three decades on residential and light commercial jobs across San Mateo County and our Marin City CGI service area. He’s known for clean permit packages and job-site organization that keeps subcontractors moving without drama. That matters on Tiburon’s steep lots, where every trade has to fit through a narrow street and coordinate around a hillside. We handle CGI cabinet installation, refacing, and countertop replacement with the same single-contract approach we bring to every San Mateo Construction project. You’re not juggling three vendors. One crew, one schedule, one phone number.
We also stock and source the parts that hold up here, which is not always what a cabinet manufacturer ships by default. More on that below.
Styles & brands we work with
Common CGI Construction Problems We Solve in Tiburon
- Swollen RTA cabinet boxes from Bay fog. CGI Ready-to-Assemble cabinets use MDF and particleboard in the box construction. When toe-kick and wall seams aren’t sealed, fog-driven moisture off Richardson Bay wicks up into the boxes. Kitchens facing the water get this worst. We seal seams, replace swollen boxes, and shim replacements off the floor to keep moisture from climbing.
- Painted and thermofoil door edge peeling. South- and west-facing kitchen walls in Tiburon catch intense afternoon sun, especially through old single-pane glass. We see CGI painted door edges blister and thermofoil peel on those exposures. Replacing doors with a heat-stable aftermarket finish, or refinishing and resealing the existing doors, is often the right fix.
- Hinge plates and hardware loosening on sloped lots. Hillside homes in Tiburon move. Slab and framing shift racks cabinet boxes out of square, and hinge plates work loose. We re-square boxes, add backing where there’s none, and switch to hardware that tolerates seasonal movement better than the original spec.
- Countertop seams opening at the wall. Out-of-square walls in older Tiburon kitchens open quartz and granite seams over time, especially when seasonal moisture makes framing swell and shrink. We template and scribe tops to the wall, not the cabinet, and use a flexible seam bond that keeps the joint closed.
- Rot behind the cabinets you can’t see. On hillside lots, a kitchen wall can hide dry rot from fog moisture for years before it shows. Cabinets look fine until we pull them and the wall sheathing behind is soft. We inspect for that before new CGI boxes go in, and we’ll tell you what we find.
CGI Service in Tiburon: What Local Conditions Mean for Your Equipment
Old-Tiburon streets off Ark Row and Beach Road are the real test, and it’s a fact of this town that doesn’t get talked about enough—unlike our work with CGI in Chinatown, where access is very different. Lots there are so tight that concrete trucks can’t reach the rear of the property, and material delivery often requires a pump truck or conveyor placement from the street. For a kitchen job, that means the entire project schedule can hinge on staging logistics. You can have perfect cabinets sitting in a warehouse and no way to get them to the back door without planning. We plan the staging path before we order material. When we need heavy countertop slabs, we schedule delivery around the access window, not the other way around. If our crew measures wrong about a tight turn off Beach Road, the job stops. The upside of our experience there is that it doesn’t surprise us. We have worked off a street-side conveyor more than once on this exact peninsula.
CGI Models & Products We Service in Tiburon
We work on the CGI Ready-to-Assemble cabinet lines, their assembled all-plywood cabinet lines, and the CGI quartz and granite countertop programs. That covers shaker and flat-panel door styles across the catalog. Our CGI sales & service work spans the full kitchen remodel down to a cabinet-and-counters refresh.
Where genuine CGI hardware and replacement doors are available, we use them. Where a quality aftermarket hinge, slide, or sealant holds up better in salt air, we’ll say so and spec that instead. If a CGI box has swollen or delaminated, we’ll tell you straight whether a targeted repair or a replacement makes sense for your budget. We do not push replacement when a repair will hold. And we will not patch a box that will fail again in two Tiburon winters.
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Pricing depends on scope, access, and what we find behind the cabinets. Here are our current ranges for typical Tiburon work:
| Service | Typical Range |
|---|---|
| Full Kitchen Remodeling (CGI cabinetry, counters, finishes) | $14,000 – $45,000 |
| Cabinet Installation & Refacing | $4,000 – $13,000 |
| Quartz & Granite Countertop Installation | $2,000 – $6,500 |
| Kitchen Island Installation | $3,000 – $10,000 |
| Backsplash Installation | $800 – $2,500 |
The big spread on full remodels comes down to whether we’re refacing existing boxes or replacing everything, and whether rot or framing work shows up once we open the walls. A hillside kitchen with bay-facing glass and a rear lot too tight for a truck will run toward the upper end because of staging and moisture mitigation. A straightforward cabinet swap on a level mid-century tract lot will run lower. Call (855) 901-7266 and we’ll walk your kitchen, check access, and give you a written line-item estimate. The estimate is free. You’ll know exactly what you’re paying for.
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, but it takes planning, and the planning happens before ordering. We pre-walk the delivery path from the street. Narrow lots often require a conveyor or pump truck for counters, and cabinets sometimes come through the front door of the house in box form, carried by hand. We schedule around those constraints, not against them. Call (855) 901-7266 for an exact plan based on your lot’s access, and an estimate for the full job.
Almost always, fog-driven moisture is wicking into the MDF or particleboard at the toe-kick or wall seam. Bay-facing kitchens in Tiburon sit in salt air most mornings, and once moisture gets inside an unsealed seam, the box swells and door finishes blister. We fix it by replacing affected boxes or doors, then sealing seams, adding standoff shims, and improving air circulation at the toe-kick. Call us at (855) 901-7266 and we’ll inspect what’s behind the failure before recommending the repair.
We don’t do geotechnical reports in-house, but we coordinate them. If your project needs one, we’ll bring in the right engineer and fold their findings into the kitchen or addition scope. That’s part of running one contract for the whole job. The cabinetry and counters are the finishing layer, but they depend on foundation and framing that’s stable on a hillside. We’ll manage that coordination for you.
Quartz countertops hold up well in sun and salt air, more so than laminate or wood. CGI painted doors and thermofoil need protection from direct afternoon sun, especially on south- and west-facing walls with old single-pane glass. We recommend UV-stable finishes, heat-resistant glazing or window film where needed, and edge sealing on all boxes. The material matters, but the install details matter just as much in this climate.
Yes, and we do it often. Refacing gives you new doors, drawer fronts, and hardware on structurally sound existing boxes, plus matched veneer or paint on the cabinet faces. If boxes are swollen or out of square from hillside movement, we’ll tell you which are worth keeping and which should be replaced. Call (855) 901-7266 for a free estimate, and we’ll walk you through what your existing cabinets can take.
Service Areas Near Tiburon
We serve the Tiburon service area and the surrounding Peninsula. Our crews also provide CGI service in Belvedere, across the water, and CGI service in Cupertino further south. San Mateo, Burlingame, Foster City, Hillsborough, Belmont, and Highlands-Baywood Park are all in our regular coverage. If your kitchen is within driving distance of the 94920 zip, call us and we’ll tell you if the job fits.
Book Your CGI Service in Tiburon Today
If you’re planning a kitchen remodel, cabinet reface, or countertop replacement in Tiburon, start with a conversation. Tell us what you actually need, and we’ll figure out the right way to build it. Call (855) 901-7266 to schedule a free estimate with our crew.
Written by Noel Carrington, Owner at San Mateo Construction, serving the Bay Area Peninsula and Tiburon.