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Lumber Exchange. Machinery Exchange. Classifieds Exchange. Notify Me Of New Listings. Request A Quote. The stress of waiting and not knowing what's going to happen gives the mind time to anticipate every possible unpleasant outcome. Holly kay-: : : : : : : Your cabinets and hardware are some of my favorites and I cannot imagine the stress you must feel.

Of course, it's not your fault! How frightening that must have been to hear such a loud noise and see your beautiful cabinets cracking. That would freak me out! You're being rational and reasonable, but your sub conscience your nightmare is having a field day.

I feel confident that they'll make good on this and fix it properly. Sending good thoughts your way. Wow--I mean, sure, it's wood-movement time in my house too--the standard separation of the boards in the floor same place every year , etc.

I'd bet glued panels, also, because that's what is supposed to do that, but!! Hope you get a good resolution and "run a humidifier" doesn't count! Good luck!! After reading these posts, I realize that none of us posting has ever seen this happen--have we? I think it would add a little "muscle" to the argument for Holly-kay if many knowledgeable people can't think of a single example of this kind of cracking happening.

Although we aren't a scientific sample, the reverse could be useful: "Show me examples where this has happened in the past due to whatever factors the cabinet maker brings up.. I can't imagine very many Oh HollyKay, I'm so sorry to see this. How upsetting. I too have never seen anything like it, and I've lived where the temps drop to subzero every winter, and humidity levels drop too. No cabinet should crack like that under normal circumstances.

I feel confident your cabinet maker will stand by his work. I suspect most homes do not have climate controlled systems. The problem is isolated to the cabinetry. Previous cabinetry didn't crack.

Furniture throughout the house is not cracking due to possible extreme fluctuations. Kitchen cabinets should be able to withstand seasonal fluctuations without cracking. I wonder if it's possible they are having work done overseas. Which could also explain why glue might have been used where it shouldn't have. Thanks for the input Snookums.

I suppose it's possible but this cabinet shop was founded here in our home town. I remember them being a smaller shop when I was a child. They are still in the same location but have added on several times.

They are one of the best known cabinet companies in the area and at least according to their website they make doors for other cabinet companies. I agree that most homes probably don't have climate control and I just find it strange that three cabinets split in less than two days.

There were several doors I had them remake and it took just a bit over a week to have replacements to me so I suspect they are made in house. I can't imagine that they could have been ordered and shipped so quickly if they were made over seas but anything is possible at this point. My hubby says the manufacturer of the cabinets is at fault. Moisture content of wood, whether it is kiln dried or air dried, will vary because it has a life in your house responding to humidity changes, which cause the wood to expand and contract.

Because of this, panels need room within the frame, as both panels and frame, expand and contract. If there is no space for them to move or if they are glued in place, the movement will cause cracks.

Properly constructed cabinets, have a very low failure rate. Improperly constructed cabinets eventually will fail somewhere. In your case, it was the panels. If you have a warranty on the cabinets, it should be honored, and replacements should be properly constructed. Maple is a good choice for cabinets.

My husband is building all of our kitchen cabinets out of maple. I hope you have a good resolution to this problem. Holly-Kay, you might point out to the kd that other cabinetry in the house haven't cracked.

So it can't possibly be the environment. Will be looking forward to reading what the kd says. I'm sure their face will show dismay, too, when they see it. Wow, I have never heard of cabinets cracking like that. How awful! This is the first time I've ever seen anything like that - it's crazy. I do not believe for a second it was caused by lack of humidity.

Holly-Kay, I certainly hope you get full satisfaction, and I expect you will since their future reputation is at stake. Best of luck on Wednesday. You poor thing. It doesn't matter what caused it, it's not your fault or the weather.

What matters is how to fix it. I live in a very fickle climate and my cabinets have never cracked in 15 years. People joke that you can experience all four seasons in one week here.

I do hear loud pops in my house and heard a really loud one Sunday. But in all my furniture and the kitchen cabinets and the drywall pops I've never seen what you have experienced with your cabinets. Our cabinet boxes are particle board or some such mix of engineered wood but I have solid wood doors with end panels and it has always been such a perfect match I didn't even know this until we put new granite on a couple of years ago.

I'm a big advocate for engineered wood for the boxes since they are so strong but I love the solid wood doors. To me this is the marriage made in heaven for long lasting durability but I digress Your cabinets are beautiful. If it is confined to the doors and not the cabinet boxes it seems like replacing the doors involved would be in the best interest of the company.

I hope they will be kind and that they will match well : Good luck. Sympathetic thoughts coming your way. My kitchen cabinets, so far so good! I have a lot of old Swedish furniture which I purchased there and had shipped.

The Mora clock developed a crack in the base after several years. But it's nearly years old and that's considered patina. No other cracks in any other furniture and my 10 y. If you look closely at the very first photo in the post, it appears that the cracks line up with where the screws secure the outlet box. I would remove the outlet cover to check that because if so, it's a very clear talking point in your favor.

It's easy to remove the outlet cover and would be interesting to see if the wood is splitting where it looks to be. Wood used in a cabinet should hold small screws without splitting. If not, it's a bad batch of wood which should be replaced as a part of waranty. If the shop is as well known and reputable as you say, they should do this without question. My experience with furniture and humidity, or lack thereof comes from working with museum collections in the Upper Midwest.

Museums monitor their furniture collections closely using a hygrothermograph that records fluctuations in the humidity the fluctuations are the real culprit. In the same way your nose or lips crack when the humidity gets very low, wood can do the same thing. It's unlikely that climate is the sole cause of what happened but certainly can be a contributing factor.

For example, if the cabinets were sitting in an unheated garage and then brought into the heated house, the expansion and contraction of the wood can cause it to crack, especially if the center panel is too tight along the edges of the door or is glued top to bottom.

I feel certain that the cabinet company will replace these doors under warranty. Even the least sophisticated company will offer a one-year warranty on workmanship and defects.

Not only should you insist on having the cracked doors replaced, but you should make sure that you are covered for any future wood cracks that might arise. Any company who wants to keep their good reputation will understand they need to work with you to solve this problem. I just have to say I've been following this post and am also feeling really bad for you. We have a fairly relaxed response to things that "patina" in our old house, but I would be feaking out over this.

A local business with that much history in your area should want to make things right no matter what. As best I can recall I've seen this once that I can recall, and only on one panel.

Might have had a wood stove involved. My hunch is that the problem is not that the panels are glued in place. While that might do it, I'd really be surprised. I'll bet that the end panel is held captive by screws at the electrical box instead of floating in a hole a remodel box solves that but if a shallow box was needed it is likely screwed That "could" alone do it but rarely more likely Briefly- wood is most prone to cracking when being dried from green to dry.

Wood shrinks differently in each direction- along it's length, width, and toward the center of the tree. Shrinkage along the width is called tangential, toward the center is called radial. The relationship between those two is expressed as the TR ration. For green sugar maple tangential shrinkage is 9. As it shrinks differently stress build up and can cause a crack. This is why kiln drying came about- allowing control over heat and humidity during the process so it never gets too fast or slow.

Once dry though the seasonal movement drops to 1. So my guesses repeat guess for this are the wood was not as dry as it could have been perhaps air dried , cabinets were made during high humidity, we've had a brutal year leading to unusually low humidity in home. All in all making for a high TR.

It is also possible that the individual pieces that cracked was originally milled in a way that increased the TR. It could even be "reaction wood" which has stresses in it in the first place reaction wood comes from a tree that grew curved.

A lot can be found on the web or for the technically inclined there is "Understanding Wood" by R. Bruce Hoadly be warned it is NOT a page turner. I'd expect this would all be worked out to your satisfaction. I'm curious to see what, why and how. The why may remain nothing more than a guess.

It is unlikely the maker dried the wood themselves and it is extremely difficult to spot reaction wood unless it is really bad. I just want to update everyone on my cabinet issue but first I want to thank you all for your words of encouragement and sharing your knowledge with me. You all are just the best and I am forever grateful for my fellow GW members. I got a phone call from the KD while he was still at the house.

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