Interior and Cabinetry
RV Cabinetry Repair, Refacing and Custom Cabinet Building
Typical range
$500 to $7,500
Shop hours
4 to 35
Labor rate
$210/hr
The short answer
Cabinetry work covers delaminated doors, blown-out hinge screws, sagging shelves, refacing, and full custom box fabrication in the shop. Jobs run $500 to $7,500, or 4 to 35 hours at $210 per hour plus materials. Everything is built and fitted at our Yorba Linda facility.
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What this work actually involves
RV cabinetry is not house cabinetry. Factory boxes are typically 3/8 or 1/2 inch stapled ply with a thermofoil or paper-backed vinyl face, hung on hidden Euro hinges into material that barely holds a screw. They are built light on purpose. The failure modes follow from that: hinge screws that strip out of end grain, face frames that separate at the miter, thermofoil that lifts off the door core, and shelves that bow permanently once something heavy sits on them through a hot summer.
Heat is the specific enemy here. A coach parked in Palm Desert or Indio sits at 140F or better inside on a July afternoon, and thermofoil adhesive gives up at temperatures well below that. We see whole door sets peeling in units that have never been in an accident and never taken on water. The fix on a peeled door is not re-gluing the film. It is either a new door skin or a solid replacement door, because the film has shrunk and will no longer cover the core.
On custom work we build boxes from 1/2 inch prefinished maple or birch ply with dado joinery instead of butt-and-staple, which adds a manageable amount of weight and roughly triples the service life. Doors get full-overlay soft-close hardware and drawers get positive latches that will not release on a hard stop. We size everything to the measured opening, which on a used coach is never the same dimension top and bottom.
Systems and brands we work on: Lagun, Corian.
Location: All work is performed at our Yorba Linda facility. We do not offer mobile, roadside, or fleet route service.
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What the job includes
- Delaminated and peeling thermofoil door replacement or reskinning
- Stripped hinge screw repair with hardwood inserts rather than larger screws
- Face frame reglue, reclamp, and mechanical reinforcement at failed joints
- Sagging and bowed shelf replacement with correct span support
- Drawer box rebuild, slide replacement, and positive latch installation
- Full refacing with new doors, drawer fronts, and matching edge banding
- Custom cabinet box fabrication in prefinished maple or birch ply
- Overhead cabinet reanchoring into wall framing after fastener pullout
- Soft-close hinge and slide upgrades throughout the coach
- Countertop-to-cabinet scribe and trim work after any layout change
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When you need this service
- A cabinet door that hangs low on one side or swings open while driving
- Thermofoil or vinyl film lifting at a door edge or bubbling across the face
- A hinge that pulls out of the cabinet when the door is opened normally
- Shelves that have taken a permanent bow under stored weight
- A drawer that will not stay closed on a hard stop or a downhill grade
- Visible separation at a face frame corner or a gap between box and wall
- An overhead cabinet that has dropped away from the ceiling line
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How we do it, step by step
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Survey every opening and door
We work the whole coach, not just the door you pointed at. Thermofoil failure and hinge pullout are almost always systemic, and pricing one door at a time costs you more.
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Repair versus replace decision
Sound boxes get new doors and hardware. Boxes with water-swollen bottoms or blown joinery get rebuilt, because refacing a failed carcass is money spent twice.
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Measure and template
Every opening measured at top, middle, and bottom. Coach openings drift out of square with age, and doors cut to a single dimension will not sit flush.
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Shop fabrication
Boxes, doors, and drawer fronts built and finished in the shop with dado joinery and prefinished material, not assembled in the coach with a staple gun.
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Structural anchoring
Overheads and heavy uppers anchored into wall framing with backer added where the factory relied on staples into thin panel.
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Hardware fit and alignment
Soft-close hinges and slides set, then every door and drawer adjusted for reveal and positive latch engagement with the coach sitting level.
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Function check
Every door and drawer worked repeatedly, latches verified against a hard closing force, and the interior cleaned before delivery.
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Pricing and posted rates
| Item | Rate or range | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Typical job range | $500 to $7,500 | Varies with extent of damage and parts availability |
| Shop hours | 4 to 35 | Quoted after teardown, not before |
| Body and paint labor | $210 per hour | 2026 posted rate |
| Paint supplies | $55 per paint hour | Calculated automatically on every estimate |
| Body supplies | $5 per body hour | Calculated automatically on every estimate |
| Parts | 100% markup under $100, 35% over | Special order parts require a non refundable deposit at order |
| Deposit | 50% at authorization over $2,000 | Additional 25% when parts arrive on jobs over $10,000 |
| Sales tax | 7.75% on parts and materials | Labor is not taxed |
Insurance billed jobs may be billed at carrier negotiated labor rates that differ from the posted retail rates above. See all posted rates.
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Vehicles we do this work on
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Class A Gas Motorhomes
A Class A gas motorhome is a flat-front coach built on a Ford F53 or Workhorse front-engine chassis, typically 28 to 38 feet. Rear
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Class C Motorhomes
A Class C is a coach body built onto a cutaway van chassis with a sleeping or storage cabover extending above the factory cab. Tha
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Standard Fifth Wheels
A fifth wheel couples to a hitch in the truck bed through a kingpin and pin box, with a raised forward bedroom over the truck. The
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Travel Trailers
A travel trailer tows from a ball hitch behind the tow vehicle rear axle on an A-frame tongue, which makes it the most sway-prone
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Sprinter Vans
Mercedes Sprinter vans run last-mile routes, trade service, and camper conversions across Southern California. Sliding door tracks
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Camper Van Conversions
Camper van conversions are Sprinter, Transit, or ProMaster chassis with windows cut into the sidewalls, a roof full of penetration
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Bus Conversions, Prevost and Marathon
A Prevost, MCI, or Van Hool conversion is a commercial motorcoach shell finished by a second-stage builder such as Marathon, Feath
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Questions about cabinetry repair, refacing and custom build
Frequently asked questions
What does RV cabinet repair cost?
Cabinetry work runs $500 to $7,500, or 4 to 35 hours at $210 per hour plus materials. Rehanging a few doors and repairing stripped hinge screws sits near the low end. Refacing an entire coach interior with new doors, drawer fronts, and soft-close hardware, or building custom boxes for a new layout, sits at the high end.
Why is the finish peeling off my cabinet doors?
That is thermofoil, a vinyl film heat-wrapped onto an MDF core, and its adhesive fails at sustained high temperature. A coach parked in the low desert can exceed 140F inside. Once the film lifts it also shrinks, so re-gluing it will not close the gap. The correct fix is a new door, either reskinned or replaced outright.
Can you match my existing cabinet finish?
Usually close, and sometimes exactly. Many factory finishes are discontinued, in which case we either match the color in a sprayed finish or recommend refacing a full run so the difference is not visible. Matching one door in a run of eight is the hardest version of this job and rarely the one we recommend.
Will custom cabinets add a lot of weight?
Some. Moving from 3/8 stapled ply to 1/2 inch dado-joined prefinished ply adds roughly 15 to 25 percent to box weight. On a galley run that is typically 40 to 70 pounds. We record it, and on a weight-sensitive unit we can build hybrid, using heavier construction only where the load justifies it.
Do you build cabinets for van conversions and work vehicles?
Yes. Galley runs, gear lockers, and equipment cabinets for cargo vans, sprinter vans, and mobile workshop builds are all built here. Van cabinetry gets anchored to the vehicle body structure with backing plates rather than to wall panel, because a cabinet that pulls loose in a van becomes a projectile.
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