Kitchen remodeling
Bathroom remodeling
Home additions & ADU
Roofing
Windows & doors
Driveway & pavers
FenceFree written scope consultation - allowances, timeline, and change-order rules on paper before a single trade is scheduled
CWS Construction in Lompico, CA | Moreno Valley Builders
We provide independent CWS cabinet and countertop installation, refacing, and full kitchen remodeling across Lompico and nearby communities like CWS in Brookdale. The one thing that makes our CWS work different here: we plan around your well tank, your septic lines, and the narrow private road that decides whether a full quartz slab can even reach your cabin. Noel Trevino leads our crews, and we’ve spent years keeping CWS cabinetry functional in Santa Cruz Mountains homes where nothing is square and everything has to survive fire season and wet winters. Call (877) 752-3154 for a free estimate.
Why Lompico Residents Choose Us for CWS Service
We read the actual condition of a Lompico wall before we order a single cabinet box. That’s the difference between a kitchen that fits and one that fights the house. Noel Trevino grew up in the Sunnymead Ranch area of Moreno Valley and spent close to three decades building and renovating homes across the Inland Empire before bringing that full-scope general contracting approach to the Santa Cruz Mountains. He learned framing, concrete, and mechanical systems at Riverside City College, and over the years he’s become the contractor people call when a project has gone sideways: undersized headers, stucco over green framing, kitchen layouts that ignored load paths. That same eye for what’s actually holding a house together is what we bring to CWS sales & service in Lompico.
We’re an independent CWS service provider, not a manufacturer program. That matters because we can tell you plainly when an old CWS carcass is worth refacing and when moisture damage behind it means replace. We source OEM CWS hinges, slides, and replacement door fronts where the line is still supported, and we switch to aftermarket soft-close hardware when the original boxes are solid but the hardware has died. You get real material choices, not whatever a factory rep wants to move.
Styles & brands we work with
Common CWS Construction Problems We Solve in Lompico
- Painted finishes checking and blistering. South- and west-facing walls in Lompico take hard sun through older single-pane windows, and the hot, dry summers drive interior humidity swings that crack CWS painted cabinet finishes. We strip, prime, and refinish with coatings that tolerate the swing, and we’ll tell you if a window upgrade would stop the problem at the source.
- Swollen oak doors that stick every winter. The 1970s-era CWS raised-panel oak cabinets in Lompico cabins sit over pier-and-beam floors that move with seasonal moisture. Wet winters swell the solid-wood fronts; dry summers release them. We re-level the boxes to the high corner and swap seized hinges for soft-close hardware so the doors work year-round.
- Toe-kick swelling and box delamination. Where CWS cabinetry was installed against unsealed redwood exterior walls or below-grade bath walls, particleboard and MDF edges wick moisture and start to fail. This is common in Lompico’s older cabins, and it’s usually a replace situation, not a repair one.
- Seized hinges and dead drawer slides. Forty-plus years of canyon dust, wood-smoke residue, and no soft-close hardware leave original CWS hardware grinding or frozen. We stock OEM replacements where available and quality aftermarket retrofits where the old line is discontinued.
- Racked cabinet boxes from shifting foundations. Lompico’s steep lots and wet winters move pier-and-beam floors enough to rack cabinet frames. Doors hang crooked, drawers bind, and seams open. We shim, re-level, and re-secure before any new countertop goes down.
CWS Service in Lompico: What Local Conditions Mean for Your Equipment
Here’s what a lot of contractors miss in Lompico, and it’s the first thing we account for: your private mountain well and septic system set hard limits on what a kitchen remodel can include. Adding a sink, an island bar, or a dishwasher to a CWS cabinet layout means more water demand and more waste flow. If your well tank can’t keep up or your leach field is already near capacity, the best cabinet plan in the world becomes a problem you didn’t know you were buying. That’s why in this canyon, cabinet and island layouts get planned around the well tank and leach field before we order a single box. A kitchen on a private lane off Lompico Road isn’t the same animal as one on a municipal sewer line in town. We’ve seen homeowners spend months picking CWS door styles only to find the island they wanted would have required a septic upgrade they weren’t prepared to fund. Better to know that on day one.
What a Lompico CWS Job Looks Like When We Do It
On a steep private lane off Lompico Road, we refaced a 1960s cabin’s original CWS raised-panel oak cabinets after finding swollen toe kicks and racked doors from a pier-and-beam floor that had shifted over decades of wet winters. We shimmed and re-leveled the boxes to the high corner, replaced the seized hinges with soft-close hardware, and set a quartz countertop cut in two pieces because a full slab couldn’t be carried up the narrow drive. The homeowner got modern function without tearing out cabinet boxes that were still structurally sound. That’s the kind of call we make in Lompico all the time: save the structure, modernize the parts, and design around what the road and the septic system will actually allow. If the details aren’t right on paper, they won’t be right in the wall.
CWS Models & Products We Service in Lompico
We work across the CWS product range you’ll find in Lompico homes: Shaker-style painted and stained cabinet lines, raised-panel oak and maple door series, frameless full-overlay box cabinetry, and CWS quartz and granite countertop programs. For parts, we source OEM CWS hinges, slides, and replacement door fronts where the line is still supported. Where CWS has discontinued a hardware line, we move to aftermarket soft-close hardware that outlasts the original. For countertops, we specify quartz and granite in thicknesses that make sense for the access situation on your lot. A slab that can’t make it up your road isn’t a deal, it’s a delay and a recut fee.
See the difference
Before
After
Before
After
Before
AfterCWS Service Pricing in Lompico
Here’s what CWS cabinet and countertop work runs in the Lompico market. Material choice, access difficulty, and whether we’re refacing or replacing boxes are the big drivers. A free estimate from us includes a site visit to check your well and septic layout, your road access, and the actual condition of your existing cabinets.
| Service | Price Range |
|---|---|
| Cabinet Installation | $4,000 – $13,000 |
| Countertop Installation | $2,000 – $6,500 |
| Backsplash Installation | $800 – $2,500 |
| Kitchen Island Installation | $3,000 – $10,000 |
| Small Kitchen Remodel | $9,000 – $20,000 |
Call (877) 752-3154 for an exact quote. Estimates are free, and we’ll give you a written line-item breakdown before any work starts.
Serving Lompico, CA — Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Lompico area and know this community well, and we also serve as our General Contractor in Lompico. Use the map below to see our service coverage — if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs – CWS Construction in Lompico
Replacing cabinets does not trigger wildfire-resistant construction requirements on its own, but in Lompico we pay attention to what’s behind those cabinets. If we open an exterior wall and find old or missing fire-blocking, we’ll flag it and recommend bringing that section up to current defensible-space and fire-hardening standards while the wall is open. The 2020 CZU Lightning Complex burned through this area, and any Lompico homeowner planning a remodel should expect a conversation about fire-resistant materials at the wall, not just cabinet style on the front. Call (877) 752-3154 and we’ll walk your site and tell you what we see.
Sometimes yes, often no. Many Lompico drives are narrow, steep, and full of switchbacks that a standard delivery truck can’t manage. We measure route access before ordering, and when a full slab won’t clear the road or the switchback, we spec the countertop in sections cut in the shop and seamed on site. Cabinet orders come in smaller lifts if needed. This is exactly the kind of planning that keeps a Lompico project from turning into a logistics disaster, and the same approach we take for CWS in Mount Hermon. Call (877) 752-3154 for a free site assessment.
Usually both. The pier-and-beam floor moves with seasonal moisture, and the solid-wood CWS doors swell with the same humidity. We find the high corner of the floor, shim the cabinet boxes level, and replace the original hinges with soft-close hardware that tolerates minor movement. If the floor has moved a lot, we may recommend addressing the foundation before cabinet work continues, similar to how we handle CWS repair in Felton. That’s the honest order of operations.
Yes, and we’d say it’s a requirement, not a courtesy. Lompico homes run on private wells and septic systems. An island with a prep sink or a dishwasher changes your water draw and your waste flow, and neither your well tank nor your leach field cares how nice the CWS cabinets look. We plan cabinet and island layouts around the well tank and leach field before ordering anything. Call (877) 752-3154 and we’ll help you figure out what your system can handle before you fall in love with a layout.
Cabinet installation in Lompico typically runs $4,000 to $13,000, and countertop installation runs $2,000 to $6,500 depending on material, access difficulty, and whether we’re refacing or replacing. A small kitchen remodel that includes both plus backsplash and an island generally lands between $9,000 and $20,000 here. Lompico access challenges can add cost to any scope, so a site visit is the only way to get a real number. Call (877) 752-3154 for a free estimate with a written breakdown.
Service Areas Near Lompico
Beyond Lompico, our crews cover a wide swath of Northern California. We handle Lompico service area calls as well as CWS cabinet and countertop work in surrounding Santa Cruz Mountain communities. Closest to us: CWS service in Ben Lomond, CWS service in Cambrian Park, plus Boulder Creek, Felton, and Zayante. If you’re anywhere in the San Lorenzo Valley, we can get to you.
Book Your CWS Service in Lompico Today
Call (877) 752-3154 to schedule a free estimate. We’ll assess your cabinets, your countertops, your well and septic layout, and your access route in one visit, and we’ll give you a written line-item quote that reflects what your Lompico home actually needs. One contractor. Every phase.
Written by Noel Trevino, Owner at Moreno Valley Builders, serving Lompico and the Santa Cruz Mountains.