How To Install Corner Base Cabinets Kitchen

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A short video on the way we place and fit our straight corner bases into the kitchen setting. Attach doors and install drawers on the base cabinets.

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When you re installing kitchen cabinets hang the wall cabinets before you start the base cabinets.

How to install corner base cabinets kitchen. Shim the cabinets if necessary. Starting with a corner use the guides you marked on the walls to transfer the stud locations to the cabinets taking care to account for the face frame. Place a level over the wood pieces to ensure you are placing it straight.

Lift the cabinets onto the ledger board and check for plumb and level. Please feel free to take a look at our website. Once you have shimmed for plumb and level secure the cabinets into the wall at the studs.

Set the neighboring cabinet in place. The line on the floor is your secondary guide. Drill countersink the pilot holes.

The horizontal line on the wall is your main guide. Line up the wood so it is below the 34 5 inch line on the wall. Drill the holes and set the corner cabinet in place.

There are three ways to handle corners. Put the corner cabinet in place. Install the remaining base cabinets.

Hold them 1 inch up from the floor on the toe kick at a 30 degree angle. Secure it to the studs using a drill and cabinet screws. Drill and countersink pilot holes into the back of the corner cabinet.

Secure the two pieces of 2 by 4 to the wall. Drill and cut holes for wiring and pipes. You made this choice for your kitchen at the time you ordered your cabinets.

Check the second cabinet for level and plumb. Drive two screws with a cordless screw gun evenly spaced down through the bottom toe kick of the cabinet. When it s time to install base cabinets start on the same wall and corner where you installed the wall cabinets.

Proceed to install the other base cabinets along the wall by repeating steps 4 and 5. Kick the front of the cabinet at the base to drive it into the corner as far as it will go. Affix one screw on the top and bottom in the front and back where the two cabinets meet.

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