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Base Cabinet Installation

Bob continues in the kitchen with Brad Brewster of Princeton Custom Cabinetry, representatives for LesCare Cabinets. Brewster shows Bob how the three base cabinets will be installed to support the rounded countertop that will serve as the dining and counter space for the shared kitchen/living area. Bob looks at the shims on the floor that have been set to receive and level the cabinets, as well as set them at a good height for the flooring that will be 3/8 inch to 1/2 inch thick. Once in place, the cabinets will be secured to the shims. The heavy 3/4-inch construction means that they will stay in place without being secured directly to the concrete slab.
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Base Cabinet Installation

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" In what goes on in here. Well if you look at the plan we've got here Bob you can see the upper peninsula that's coming out here into the center of the standing right here and it's gonna be three base deaths and a -- rounded. Countertops should you can put stools that nice seating area all right and what we're working on a slab so the guys have already shim doubt. What's the deal is the slab that far out of I don't know -- combination of the slab does pitch a little bit back to the corner -- but mainly this is allowing for the floor that we're going to be used and has an approximate creates the half an inch thickness and in this block on the end is for fastening. That's the one that we will fasten through that keeps the cabinetry in place all right let's let's put these in place. And as I understand when you've got a kitchen like this. You don't have to worry too much about attaching down to the slab -- when you tie everything together with the countertop. It's not going to move and yes the weight of the cabinets these be on that three quarter inch construction they're heavy they are. The counselors and went okay. So we'll have to fine tune that a little bit. Then this one is on the end. And that fits down over that block to the floor. And then what we'll do is we'll secure that to that block excellent. So we've got is a kind of a classic U shaped kitchen. And the triangle goes from the refrigerator. To the water source took the cook top that's correct and it's easy to work yet. -- we'll see more of the kitchen a little bit later in the show. Okay thank you."

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