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Default Hanging Kitchen Cabs -- Underneath or Inside?

Jeff B wrote:
Do professional installers generally attach the bottom of wall cabs
from underneath or inside just above the bottom shelf? It probably
doesn't matter either way, but which looks the "cleanest"?

--Jeff


Depends how the cabinet carcass is framed. Some of the cheaper ones only
have 2 rails across the back, one on the bottom edge, and one at the
top, with the back panel being cheap pressboard. For those, I'd put in
the top screws, take down the ledger board, and then screw the bottoms,
shimming as I went. If the face frames were Real Wood, I'd put one into
each adjacent cabinet, sideways through the face frame.

On a real cabinet with a real wood back, I'd put the screws wherever I
could that would show the least.

(Most of my cabinet-hanging was in cheap-ass apartments, so that is
where most of my experience is.)

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