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Default Installing full overlay cabinets under soffit.

JB wrote:
Abit off topic, but I am also getting ready to redo my kitch. I
will be removing soffits and hanging new cabs. I will leave
measuring and installing granite countertops to the pros but I'l be
doing removing/ rebuilding some interior walls, new electrical and
plumbing. I am not a professional remodeler. My wife and a few
others are telling me to get the cabs installed by someone else,
but I can't believe its all that difficult. Awkward maybe yes (esp
the hanging cabs), but not difficult. And not worth $1000 to have
someone else do it.


You're right, it isn't rocket science.

Easiest thing to do is install the uppers first. Easiest way to do
that is to rest them - one at a time - on a pair of narrow 2x4
crutches built for the purpose. Once the uppers are up, the lowers are
easy.

The cabinets are screwed to the wall studs from the cabinet inside
through the nailing strip(s). However, don't lock the screws down
real tight until all are up. At that point, align the front edges of
the cabinets and hold them that way with handscrews. Assuming the
cabinets have face frames (and that you took off the doors prior to
hanging) screw the cabinets to their neighbors through the edge of the
face frame. If the hinges mount on the face frame then under the
hinge is a good place to put the screws. Once the cabinets are all
screwed together, take off the handscrew clamps and tighten the screws
holding them on the wall...easy does it, because walls aren't flat and
you don't want to rack the cabinets.

The fact that walls aren't flat is the only real PITA when hanging
cabinets. For example, it may be that the center cabinet is against a
vertical drywall seam which means the sides of the end cabinets won't
be flush to the wall. Two possible fixes...if the back edge of the
side allows it, you can spile it to the wall; if not, use molding.



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