Kitchen Remodeling in Plantation - One Written Price, No Change Orders

Fast, Reliable Kitchen Remodeling Across Plantation

A full kitchen remodel in Plantation typically runs $14,000-$45,000, with smaller upgrades like cabinet refacing or quartz countertop replacement starting around $4,000. The biggest variable is what’s hiding behind those original 1960s CBS walls - and whether your home’s electrical and plumbing can carry a modern kitchen without a subpanel swap or drain-line repair. Our Kitchen Remodeling crews work inside Plantation every week, so we know what Broward County’s mid-code inspectors look for and how to keep your permit moving. Call (844) 638-7249 to schedule a free estimate and walk your space with someone who knows this city’s housing stock cold.

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Why Groundwork Construction Co. of Fort Myers Is Plantation’s Preferred Kitchen Remodeling Company

Most Plantation homeowners we meet are standing in a kitchen that was installed when the house was built - sometime between Kennedy and Reagan - and they’re done living with fluorescent soffit boxes and Formica counters that have seen four decades of Florida humidity. We have remodeled hundreds of these CBS ranch and two-story layouts across neighborhoods like Country Club Estates, Jacaranda Lakes, and the mature subdivisions east of University Drive. That repetition matters: when you know in advance that a 1964 slab probably holds a rusted cast-iron drain stack under the sink wall, you plan for it instead of “discovering” it mid-job and hitting the owner with a change order. Our 730-Day Done Right Promise covers every detail, and if something isn’t right two years later, we make it right - no fine print, no finger-pointing.

Derek Hollenbeck built this company on the principle that a contractor’s word should mean something, and that means showing up in uniform, answering the phone with a live person 24/7, and handing you an upfront price that doesn’t grow once we open the walls. We serve Plantation from our South Florida dispatch office, with background-checked technicians who arrive in branded vehicles and carry the brand partnerships that let us offer KraftMaid, Cambria, and Silestone without the weeks-long lead times some shops quote. For these older CBS homes especially, knowing Plantation‘s exact permitting rhythm is the difference between a five-week kitchen and a three-month headache.

Our Kitchen Remodeling Services in Plantation

Full Kitchen Remodeling

A full-gut kitchen remodel in Plantation means we strip the room to the CBS block and rebuild with new electric, plumbing, insulation, drywall, flooring, and custom cabinetry. On pre-1992 homes, opening exterior walls triggers Broward County’s strap-and-clip retrofit requirements - we pull that permit day one so it never stalls your inspection schedule. Projects range from $14,000 to $45,000 depending on layout changes, island additions, and appliance-level electrical demands.

Cabinets & Countertops

In Plantation‘s 1970s and 1980s subdivisions, the original kitchen cabinets are often flat-panel laminate over particleboard boxes that have swollen in the humidity. We reface or replace them with KraftMaid cabinetry in Shaker profiles - Suede, Dove White, and Greyloft are the most-requested finishes right now - paired with Cambria or Silestone quartz counters. Cabinet installation alone runs $4,000-$13,000; countertop installation adds $2,000-$6,500.

Backsplash, Tile & Flooring

The terrazzo floors found in many Plantation homes built before 1970 are beautiful but often too brittle to salvage once a kitchen layout changes. We lay a self-leveling bed over the slab - with a vapor barrier, critical given Plantation‘s seasonally high water table - then install large-format porcelain or luxury vinyl plank. Backsplash installation ranges $800-$2,500, with the final number driven mostly by tile choice and linear footage.

Kitchen Design & Layout

Opening a galley kitchen into a great-room layout is the single most-requested change in Plantation‘s 1958-1988 tract homes. We bring a designer to your home to measure load-bearing points on the CBS stem wall and map sightlines before you commit to a single cabinet order. For homes in master-planned sections like Jacaranda Lakes, we also prepare the architectural-review submittal your HOA needs - that step alone has saved our clients weeks of back-and-forth.

Kitchen Island Installation

Adding an island to a working kitchen in Plantation costs $3,000-$10,000, depending on whether you need a new plumbing stub for a prep sink and whether the electrical panel can carry an additional dedicated circuit. The structural piece matters too: quartz waterfall islands are popular here, but on older CBS stem walls you often need an engineer’s letter confirming the slab can take the point load. We handle that before we order stone.

Small & Partial Kitchen Remodels

Not every Plantation kitchen needs a full gut. If your cabinet boxes are solid and you simply want new doors, soft-close hinges, quartz counters, and an updated backsplash, we can usually complete the job in two to three weeks. Small and partial remodels in Plantation run $9,000-$20,000, with cabinet refacing as the most cost-effective way to change the whole look without touching the footprint.

Trusted Brands We Service in Plantation

We stock and install product lines that hold up in South Florida’s humidity and don’t require special-order delays that drag a project into hurricane season. For Plantation kitchens, we regularly spec KraftMaid cabinetry, Cambria and Silestone quartz, and Quikrete-based leveling compounds for our slab-prep work. Our supplier relationships mean we can order a full kitchen’s worth of Shaker-front cabinets and have them on site faster than most shops - and if a door arrives with a finish flaw, we swap it without holding your timeline hostage.

Common Kitchen Remodeling Problems We See in Plantation Homes

• Federal Pacific electrical panels still feeding the kitchen. We see these in roughly one out of every three pre-1985 Plantation homes we open up. They lack modern arc-fault protection and won’t pass a Broward County rough-in inspection - which means your remodel permit triggers a subpanel swap to Square D Homeline or similar, typically a $1,800-$3,500 add before drywall goes up.
• Rusted cast-iron drain stacks under the slab. In 1960s-era subdivisions like Country Club Estates, the original under-slab plumbing has often reached end of life. A simple base-cabinet replacement turns into a slab puncture and drain-line repair once the scope of corrosion is visible - which means a plumbing permit revision and a few extra days of jackhammer work.
• Humidity-swollen cabinet boxes and efflorescence on tile. Kitchens built without a proper vapor barrier beneath the finished floor will show salt bloom through grout lines within one wet season. We float a moisture barrier on every slab-leveling job in Plantation, no exceptions, because the water table here doesn’t negotiate.
• HOA architectural-review delays on island additions and wall openings. Master-planned sections like Jacaranda Lakes enforce strict sightline and structural-submittal rules. An island or a soffit removal that changes the kitchen’s exterior-wall profile needs HOA sign-off before the city permit is issued - we prepare the drawing package so it clears on the first review cycle.

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What Makes Kitchen Remodeling Different in Plantation

Plantation was developed as a master-planned community almost entirely between the late 1950s and the mid-1980s, which means whole neighborhoods are cycling into major renovation at the same time. The dominant construction demand here is systematic upgrading of CBS tract homes that were built before Hurricane Andrew’s destruction forced a complete rewrite of South Florida’s building codes. That creates a specific sequence of work that an experienced local contractor handles differently than someone driving up from Miami-Dade. Plantation falls under Broward County’s building jurisdiction, not Miami-Dade’s High-Velocity Hurricane Zone - so the wind-mitigation detail a Miami contractor would over-engineer, and the documentation a Palm Beach contractor might under-submit, both sit right where our office files permits every day. Knowing exactly where Broward’s middle-ground inspection thresholds sit means we move your kitchen permit through plan review faster than an out-of-area crew.

In the original Country Club Estates section, we opened a 1964 CBS galley kitchen to find the original terrazzo too brittle to salvage and a Federal Pacific panel still feeding the cooktop. Our crew laid a leveling bed for large-format Silestone Eternal series counters, swapped the subpanel to a Square D Homeline with AFCI breakers to satisfy Broward’s current code, and refaced the KraftMaid cabinets in Shaker Suede to match the new island - all without altering exterior walls so the owner kept her builder warranty intact and HOA approval took just one review cycle. That kind of surgical approach only comes from working inside these same floor plans over and over.

We Also Serve Cities Near Plantation

In addition to our regular work across Plantation, our crews serve homeowners throughout the surrounding region - from Immokalee and LaBelle on the interior side down to Marco Island and out through Lehigh Acres. If you are located in any of these communities, call (844) 638-7249 and we will get a designer to your kitchen, usually within the same week.

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