How to Install Kitchen Wall Cabinets
Tips for Helping the DIY Homeowner Install
Kitchen Wall Cabinets
By Mark J. Donovan
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Installing kitchen wall cabinets
is easier to do than you might otherwise think. Tools required for
installing kitchen wall cabinets include a screw gun, a length of 1”x3”
strapping (a.k.a. furring strip) and a level.
Determine
Location and Height of Kitchen Wall Cabinets
To begin with first determine the
location and height of the kitchen wall cabinets. Keep in mind the desired
soffit height above the kitchen wall cabinet. |
Once you have determined the proper
height for the kitchen wall cabinet scribe a level horizontal pencil line along
the wall for the location of the bottom of the kitchen wall cabinets.
Attach Furring
strip to Kitchen Wall
Next, attach the 1”x3” furring strip
to the line such that the top of the furring strip sits at the level of the
scribe line. Use several 2 inch screws to fasten the furring strip to the
kitchen wall. Make sure the screws are fastened into wall studs.
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Place and Install First Kitchen
Wall Cabinet
Next, lift the kitchen cabinet up
onto the wall and have it rest on the furring strip.
Now, use your screw gun to drill
pilot holes into the kitchen cabinet’s back, preferably along its support rails,
and into the kitchen wall. The pilot hole should penetrate through the kitchen
wall cabinet, through the drywall and into the wall stud.
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Finally fasten the kitchen wall
cabinet to the wall using screws long enough such that the screws penetrate into
the wall studs approximately 1.5 inches.
With the screws in place, you have
now installed your first kitchen wall cabinet.
Place and Install
Adjacent Kitchen Wall Cabinets
Now continue along the wall
installing the additional kitchen wall cabinets. You will want to secure the
adjacent cabinet walls to both the kitchen wall and to each other along the
front of the kitchen cabinets. This will help to make a tight seam on the front
of the kitchen wall cabinets.
When fastening the front of the
kitchen cabinets together you will again want to pre-drill a couple of pilot
holes into the kitchen cabinet side rails (one near the top and one near the
bottom).
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Next, insert the two screws into the
side rails such that they penetrate the adjacent cabinet by approximately 1
inch.
As you continue to install the
kitchen wall cabinets use your level to make sure the cabinets remain level and
plumb to each other.
Once all of the kitchen wall cabinets
have been installed, you can then remove the furring strip and fill in the holes
with putty or joint compound. Then simply touch the holes up with paint and
you’re kitchen wall cabinet installation project is complete.
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