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Do you need a permit to replace kitchen cabinets in Alexandria, VA? No. But your mailing address might not even be in the city.
Chris and Jessica from the Alexandria showroom walk through what actually decides an Alexandria kitchen: which office your house answers to, where the permit exemption stops, why Old Town is not the problem people expect, and what "in stock" really means when you ask a showroom.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:35 Can you get cabinets this week
1:16 City of Alexandria or Fairfax County
2:20 Do you need a permit to replace cabinets
3:00 Where the exemption stops
4:04 Old Town and the BAR myth
5:19 Condo rules
6:02 Delivery to houses and condos
6:23 What "in stock" really means
7:37 Allure, Illume and the Tuscany trap
8:10 Modified cabinets and the warranty
8:46 What to bring, and the one rule
SHOW NOTES:
City or county: Alexandria is an independent city with its own Permit Center. Zip codes 22314 and 22301 are almost always in the city, but an Alexandria mailing address in 22312 can sit in Fairfax County. Our own showroom on General Washington Drive is one of them. One call to the city Permit Center tells you which office you deal with.
Permits: the Virginia Construction Code, 13VAC5-63-80, section 108.2, lists "installation or replacement of cabinetry or trim" as work exempt from a permit. Move the sink, add circuits, take out a wall or move a gas line and you need the matching permit. Exempt work still has to meet the code, and in a mapped flood zone the building official can require a permit anyway.
Old Town: only two local districts are regulated by the Board of Architectural Review, Old and Historic Alexandria and Parker-Gray, plus designated 100 year old buildings. The city states that interior work does not require BAR approval. Exterior changes do, and a Permit to Demolish applies to more than 25 square feet of material regardless of whether it is visible from the street.
Stock and series: Fabuwood's finish tier belongs to the door and the finish together, not the color. Oyster is Signature on Fusion but made to order on Nexus. Allure is plywood with dovetail drawers; Illume is furniture board with a metal Blum drawer; Tuscany comes in both Illume and Ovela. Ask which series your quote is for.
Warranty: eligible Fabuwood cabinets carry a limited lifetime warranty for the first residential purchaser. It does not transfer, excludes rental use, and excludes cabinets modified from their original form.
RESOURCES AND LINKS:
Full article: https://istcabinets.com/kitchen-cabinets-alexandria-va/
Alexandria showroom: https://istcabinets.com/locations/virginia/alexandria/
All showrooms: https://istcabinets.com/locations/
Fabuwood in Northern Virginia: https://istcabinets.com/fabuwood-cabinets-in-northern-virginia/
Previous episode, stock cabinets in a DC rowhouse: https://istcabinets.com/stock-kitchen-cabinets-washington-d-c/