Kitchens by Riland

With the ever growing cost of labor in the furniture manufacturing industry, more and more homeowners today are doing it themselves. It goes without saying that one can save a substantial fortune by simply fitting most of, or all kitchen units personally. With a wide gamut of assembled kitchen units in the market today, and easy-to-follow guidelines, fitting all or part of your kitchen units can be very economical in the end.

With assembled kitchen units widely available, you can simply have the units delivered; fix the legs on the kitchen set which will only take a few hours and you are good to get started. Once the legs are on your units, it will simply be a matter of drawing a straight and level line on the walls where you wish to fix the units and then going ahead to set the units in place and adjusting the legs so as to bring the units level.

The units’ level should be accurate in all directions. Once you are satisfied with the level of the unit, align the fronts so they all run on a straight line. Recheck the levels again just in case of something you might have done wrong and make adjustments accordingly. Once everything is perfect, you can then go ahead and fix the units to each other through their sides.

You should then fix countersunk screws if you identify where the hinges are going so that the hinges can cover the screws. You can always use clamps to help hold the assembled kitchen units in aligned when fixing them and ensure each unit is exactly aligned perfectly to its neighbors. Once all your assembled kitchen units are fixed together, go ahead and fix them securely on the wall.

Fitting of doors and drawers of assembled kitchen units is always a matter of pushing the drawers into pre-made holes and in the doors and fixing the unit doors to pre-drilled holes. Assembled kitchen unit handles however may need a little more care when fixing, hence it is often best to create a template for the doors. Luckily, many suppliers will offer handle templates for their variety of doors.

With some common sense approach to fixing kitchen units, and a bit of care and patience, you can handle quite a large part of your kitchen project without paying high tradesmen’s fees for carrying out moderately simple tasks, which have even been made simpler by the availability assembled kitchen units.