What You Need To Know About Kitchen Cabinet Installation

If you know how to install kitchen cabinets in your own kitchen, it is possible to save yourself a lot of money. Saving the money aside, you can take pride in your work and a job well done.

Even if your kitchen is a little complex, by learning the basics and what to look out for, you will be able to install your own kitchen.

So, to begin with, the best way to start is to go over your new design for the kitchen, studying all of the components that are included. What will help you greatly will be to actually draw the layout on the kitchen walls. By doing this, you will get a better understanding of exactly how to go about the installation of the cabinets. Having access to the professionally drawn up layout is very important because it will give you the visual confirmation as to how the kitchen will look like after you have it installed.

Closely examine how the cabinets are laid out on the kitchen walls. Double check that you have all of the cabinets for your new design. You might find that electrical outlets and switches might be in the way of some of the cabinets, and make sure that any appliance wiring is properly located for their new locations if any. Relocation of any outlets or switches should be taken care of now. Moving this wiring is not a big deal and your electrician can take care of it for you. Just be sure that everything is where it is supposed to be before you start installing the cabinets.

The next order of business before you learn how to install kitchen wall cabinets is to find the high point of your floor. Whenerver possible, have the new flooring installed before you plan on installing the new kitchen cabinets to ensure that all of the cabinets are placed securely on the new floor. This will make the entire process of installing the cabinets much easier. Just be sure to protect the floor during the installation process. However, there are two types of flooring that you will want to install after the fact, and they are any floating floor system or a perimeter glued vinyl floor. By placing the cabinets directly on these type of floors will not allow them to move freely as they are supposed to do.

Once your floor is down, measure up from any spot of the floor against a wall and place a mark at thirty inches. Next, you will want to draw a level line all along the walls where the cabinets are going to be placed. Measure up every two feet and find the smallest measurement, and mark where that location is. This will be the highest point of the kitchen floor. Now, measure up thirty four and a half ijches from this spot and draw a new level line around the kitchen representing the top of the base cabinets. This will serve as a reference point for the rest of the installation of the kitchen cabinets. You are going to learn that there is a lot more to a kitchen installation than just screwing cabinets to a wall. I have put together a comprehensive resource that covers all of the details that you might encounter in your kitchen remodel.