How to Install Kitchen Cabinets | Ask This Old House

What do you do if the ceiling is not level?

I notices these are Chinese cabinets in a box, many have poor glue and the plywood delaminates with sun and moisture and they have the fancy hydraulic closers and plastic orange drawer releases under the drawers. I would put a wide pan under the sink to catch and water or drips.

Today I went from finding a good deal on a sink on Facebook marketplace, to completely remodeling the kitchen 🤔

What do you do if there aren't studs right where you need them?

Marvelous camera work and description of your approach for leveling and measuring and whether to shim or not. Also I love the z theory for aligning that blind cabinet to the stove area and making it accessible easily to remove If necessary.

I love to screwed from behind.

how much weight can those cabinets mounted with screws to the wood studs take? Can the cabinets ever pull off the wall from the studs and collapse? Or the shelves alone collapse down from those little feet of steel or plastic used to hold them in place?

How do you secure the cabinets? They'd be too heavy to screw directly into the plasterboard, no? Do you have to screw them into the studs ?

Not changing that floor (old dirty vinyl) at a time like this... is just a mistake.

Hello! Doing a kitchen remodel on an old home and this was very helpful! A question for the community - why is the tile in the sink base area not tiled closer to the wall. It's the same at my house and I was going to tile close to the wall when the new floor goes in.

At point 3.21 by the expression on Kevens face it looks like Tom passed ⛽️ poor guy such a confined space, should have opened that window incase of these unforseen accidents. it's nice how Tommy kept his composure🤭🙃😉nice job guy's 👍👍

i guess no floor cleaning before the install . lmao

You Americans have kitchens that would date back to the 70's in European countries. They all come with adjustable legs now.

Screwing it from behind is always the best way to go!

Amazing I install the same way 👍

lol attach with 3" screws, use shackled screws, or add washers ppl.

Tommy is a G! screw it from behind eh haha

I recently moved into an apartment and I am beginning to see roaches coming from under my sink. I've noticed that there's spaces as to where no caulking in alot of places and in other places like when you remove the drawers the cabinets are not flush with the wall. What actions should I take???

Great Job Guys

😊❤🌻🎉H N Year 22

I'm guessing the 2x4 added to the wall, behind the end cabinet to the right, was to bring the drawer out, away from the wall, so it could open past the trim around the sliding glass door. .

Makes no sense as to why he used level over the tile floor instead of subfloor to mark 34 1/2 line???? High spot should be marked from subfloor, right? can't see how he measured .....from subfloor? just using the level to point where high point is?

These days use the star bits to make drilling screws much easier and less chance of stripping the heads of screws.

It's amazing how the studs always magically place themselves wherever the experts drill the hole in the wall. Anyone???

What brand of screw gun are you using?

Don’t use 3” screws as you could hit pipes or wires, normally a 2.5” screw will keep you away from the center of the stud and not more than 1.5” deep into the stub; Electricians and plumbers normally keep the wires and pipes at least 1.5” deep.

What is the price difference between assembled cabinets and unassembled cabinets? Then how much will the contractor charge to assemble the cabinets?

Say an assembled cabinet is $400. Unassembled is $350. Of the contractor charges $50 to assemble, they there is no savings!

The designer came with the purchase of the cabinets? How do we know the cabinets aren't more expensive because of that?

Stopped by to show my support

we're gonna aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadd another cabinet here. (Kevin)

Stove next to a refrigerator?

The only thing I like about the cabinets is that they use plywood.

Nice cabinets. I wonder where you got them?

Those are some short ceilings.

Only flaw is they didn’t use cabinet screws to fasten to wall

Ugly! Tommy must have been biting his tongue the entire install

Good info guys!!!! I am about to do a kitchen tear out and I am starting with Terrazzo floors. My kitchen will have a similar footprint but I am doing laminate floors after the cabinets are in.

Very appreciative

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I would first paint the room and finish the floor. Then the cabinets

I like Tom using the shims at the back of the cabinet. You can create uneven distorted cabinets if the backs of the cabinets get distorted by pressing this gap to the wall.
Couple of thoughts. Because my wife and I were not that tall, I wanted to make my countertop a bit lower. What determined the minimum height was the dishwasher. They make a few shorter models. Whatever you do, it's the dishwasher that determines the minimum height. The other thing on my Christmas list for the past 40 years: A sink unit with no bottom. If you've ever spent a couple of hours working under the sink, you know that step up to the bottom is a pain in the back. Also the cheap chipboard most cabinet bottoms are made out of- they get a little water, swell up, then sag into garbage. A sink unit that had no bottom, but did have a fitted drain pan is long over due.
Microwave. I like raising this off the counter so you have counter space underneath to the wall. It's better all round like this.
Bugs. What we used to always do in New York City aka roach capital north of the tropics. Behind and under all base cabinets we'd spread a generous amount of roach powder. Also make sure you plug up all holes even if they're covered. Large holes use canned spray foam, smaller ones silicone caulking. Keeps the ants out. (I made one kitchen that they finally figured out how to get in through the electrical boxes. So I opened them up and caulked the flex connectors). Hope this helps.

Can u leave out the floor with self leveling ckncret and put the cabinets on top or leave the floor like that...another question do i leave da shims? If i leave the shims i gota buy a bigger screw right?

Hey quick question what do i do with the shims after i use them to level out do i jus leave em there?

That mud though.

That designer really thought outside the box on that design.

Excellent camera work!

Noobie here with questions: Even though it's going to be covered, why wouldn't you paint first or replace the missing tile / linoleum. if it's a budget thing i can understand but i don't see the price of a gallon of paint and some tiles adding too much cost?

What you pay for that pos 1000$ ahahahaha