Kitchens by Riland

If you wish to know how to install kitchen cabinets, you should know that kitchen cabinet installation needs average carpentry and plumbing skills. The process of installation takes circa 10-20 hours on average. You first course of action should be to remove all old cabinets if there are any, and all appliances from the kitchen area.

- To start your how to install kitchen cabinets process, you should find studs in the wall with your stud locator and mark the centre using a pencil.

- Then sketch an extension of the line up and down the walls, ensuring they remain plumb. As you mark out, be sure to measure carefully where each of your kitchen cabinets will be hung. While doing this, take into account plumbing, electrical outlet and switches, and traffic patterns before you finish your cabinet installation plan

- Your how to install kitchen cabinets process will be much easier if you started with kitchen cabinets wall first. Install the corner cabinets first -- to hold them up while installing, attach the ledger along the bottom of the cabinet line.

- Drill and countersink two holes either side of the mounting rail in the cabinet and screw in your screws on the holes. Put the nearby cabinet on the ledger and clamp it to the first cabinet that you installed. Screw the cabinets to each other and to the wall, and ensure you retain plumb lines throughout the process using shims.

- Follow the same procedure for the remaining kitchen cabinets.

- Once you are done, ensure you remove all shims and ledgers. In case there will be gaps left between the cabinets and the wall, fill them up using strips of molding, stain, and finish to complement the cabinets. Filler strips are bought from cabinet manufacturers and fixed using drywall screws

- The second part of your how to install kitchen cabinets process, is to install based kitchen cabinets, which you should also start with corner cabinets first. Drill and countersink two pilot holes at the back of the cabinet.

- Lay the neighboring cabinet in place

- Check that all drawers and doors will work properly

- Clamp the cabinets together and with the help of shims to maintain plumb lines till you complete a row of cabinets

- Before you clamp the screws, cut plumbing and electrical lines holes as required.

- Once you screw all cabinets, install a toe-kick to cover the gap left at the bottom.