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Installing Entertainment Center Cabinets

Bob Ryley works with Kevin Kalman to install entertainment center cabinets.
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Installing Entertainment Center Cabinets

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" Kevin, can you tell us a little bit about what cabinet is going to go in here?"

" We've got an entertainment center we're putting together, Bob, with our decor cabinetry. "

" Uhuh."

" And as you can see on the plan we got some base cabinets. "

" Right."

" [unk] are here, all these individual units that we will put together and on the top our TV fits in the middle section with some shelving on each side."

" Okay. That's why we got this little jug here and fill them with a nice, big cabinet here to support the television."

" If you're TV is [unk] every year."

" Yeah. Well okay so what we've already done is fit the cabinet bases in place because we got toe kick to move on to put underneath the, and we've already scribed the line on the floor here and once we've done that, we'll pull it out and then we're going to build the toe kick three inches back on that line."

" That's our next move."

" Okay. The cabinets all came separately [unk] put them together just to make them easy to maneuver. Okay we've got this 3-inch material and we'll just use that to land on our line. We'll just put on the tool and that's going to be the point in which we built our toe kick. So when we're done, our toe kick would be up like that and then the face of our cabinet will be out there. These toe kick pieces are really decorative. It's going to go on the face. We got to hold up the cabinet and these 2 by's [unk] that we've ripped down, actually they're four and a quarter inches wide because that's what the toe kick is. We've ripped them out with 2 x 6's and we're going to put them right where all the joints are on. That's going to help us hold the joints together as well, like that with this piece here. Okay and I'm going to get it checked and these are 3-1/2 inches to the stile, which is on this side of the electrical bar. The measure will appear at the top. The same measurement and the lower stiles are 16 inches on the center. I pulled over 32. I'm going to give it my first attaching point and another 16 inches, another attaching point to the back of that cabinet. See this door [unk] so you can get the jigsaw blade in there?"

" Yeah. We drill for a hole so we can actually hit them with a small [unk]."

" Okay."

" [unk]"

" Alright, Bob, we can be able to fit this right here."

" Good."

" Oh yeah."

" Okay and now we're ready to put this top this down. We've already gone ahead and put in some 3/4-inch [unk] strips so they're going to fill this up an inch and a half so that once we get this top down, we'll be facing it off with a nice piece of trim, inch and a half. It will go right through the face just like that."

" Okay. How are we working? Oops. Hurry back."

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