How To Hang Kitchen Wall Cabinets Uk
Secure the top and.
How to hang kitchen wall cabinets uk. It s time to install the first wall cabinet. Remove cover caps on inside of cabinet. Measure and make a mark 54 inches 137 cm from the floor.
One adjusts the height of the bracket for fine tuning on the wall and the other pulls the unit in towards the wall to keep it tight against it. Set the first wall cabinet on the ledger strip and 1 4 inch away from its reference line on the wall. Of course making sure with spirit level beforehand if it s all level as it should.
If your floor is not level measure from the highest point. Hanging a cabinet in bathroom is probably even easier that in the kitchen because very often you will have solid brick walls. This is pretty much the strongest fixing you can get in hollow cavities like plasterboard if you can t fix straight into a stud for cabinets with cleats you may have no control over where they need fixing.
They should be 450mm away from the top of your worktop. The back board of the wall unit will have two cut outs for the hanging arm of the bracket to fit through. Determine if your floor is level.
The kind of cabinet you have and the kind of wall you ll be fixing it to will determine the way you ll be fixing it to the wall. Turn the top adjustment screw to adjust the unit from front to back. Insert screwdriver into hole below the top screw and turn to move unit up and down adjust unit for height.
A standard to scale floor plan drawing will suffice for plotting out exactly where you want to. When i m fixing the kitchen wall cabinets to a plasterboard wall i always use the rawlplug setting tool. Allows unit to tilt forwards or backwards from the wall.