How to Install Cabinets

June 6th, 2016.

Furniture, How to Install Cabinets

How to install cabinets is an easy job that you can do it yourself without hiring a professional home designer to help you. If you need someone else to help you is just to lift the upper cabinet until it screwed. In getting the cabinet installed properly, you need to do these things.

Firstly, prepare the space where you want to install the cabinets and carefully measure the site. Draw a layout of the cabinet plans to give an idea of how everything will line up and fit together. Get all materials and supplies needed, then you can start to install the upper cabinets but do not put the doors on yet. Make sure the cabinets are assembled as securely, squarely and evenly as you can.

Mark the locations of the studs in your walls before you start how to install cabinets. Start to install the upper cabinets on one end or in a corner. You can have someone to lift and support the cabinets until they are screwed in. Once the upper cabinets have been completed, you can go to the lower cabinets. Do the same things as you do to the upper cabinet.

Since you will install a counter top on the cabinets, make sure this reasonably level and all the joints flush. Look at the appearance of the cabinet fronts and make sure those are even. Once the cabinets have been completed, go to the countertop installation. Cut the countertop to the size and place it on top of the lower cabinets. Screw it in from underneath and make sure the screws won’t break through the material to the top.

Caulk the countertop as it finish and set the sink on it. Apply caulk around the sink cutout and lower the sink into place. You also need to apply caulk around the edges of the counter top and between the back splash and the wall. As it finish, you can install the stove to its place.

Install the cabinet doors and hardware, and adjust the hinges so that the doors hang properly. Voila. The new cabinet is installed in your kitchen. Now you can enjoy the new cabinets installed in your kitchen. You can start cooking as you have finished you project on how to install cabinets.