Installing Kitchen Cabinets Made Simple, Book and DVD
Your carefully crafted cabinets are complete, now all you have to do is get them on the wall! This book with it's companion DVD is your guide to doing just that, and doing it with a minimum of stress. You'll learn to level, scribe, install uppers, lowers, countertops, trim and trim panels and adjust doors and drawers—everything needed for a top-quality installation! Read the book, then watch the DVD to see Gregory Paolini do it first-hand. 112 pages. Paperback.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1:
- Planning your project
- Choosing cabinets
- Choosing countertops
- Designing the kitchen
- Appliances and accessories
Chapter 2:
- Preparing the site
- Horizontal reference lines
- Vertical reference lines
- Laying out cabinets without walls
- Locating studs
- Finding the highest point with a level
- Finding the highest point from a level reference
- Using a water level
- Laying out horizontal reference lines
- Laying out vertical reference lines
- Laying out a 3-4-5 triangle
- Marking studs
Chapter 3:
- Preparing cabinets
- Staying organized
- Removing doors
- Removing drawers
- Prepping cabinets for installation
Chapter 4:
- Installing wall cabinets
- Attaching the cabinets
- Ganging cabinets together
- Supporting cabinets
- Laying out fasteners
- Ganging Euro-style cabinets
- Installing ledgers
- Installing wall cabinets
Chapter 5:
- Installing base cabinets
- Installation strategy
- Dealing with utilities
- Freestanding cabinets
- Ganging face-frame cabinets
- Installing base cabinets
- Making square cutouts for utilities
- Making round cutouts for utilities
- Installing freestanding cabinets
Chapter 6:
- Installing trim
- Trim flanges
- Side treatments
- Under wall cabinets
- Trimming base cabinets
- Cabinet tops
- Installing a narrow trim flange
- Installing a wide trim flange
- Installing a finish panel
- Installing an applied toe-kick cover
Chapter 7:
- Installing countertops
- Prepping for countertops
- Working with post-form countertops
- Cutting out for sinks
- Installing a post-form counter
- Building a laminate countertop
- Prepping cabinets for countertop installation
- Cutting post-form countertops
- Joining mitered corners
- Cutting out for a sink
- Installing a countertop
Chapter 8:
- Installing hardware
- Reinstalling interior components
- Reinstalling and adjusting doors
- Knobs and pulls
- Adjusting undermount slides
- Adjusting Euro-style hinges
- Installing knobs and pulls
What's in the Box?
- (1) Book, Installing Kitchen Cabinets Made Simple
- (1) Companion DVD
