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Florida Kitchen Cabinet Installation

Richard Wagner of Wagner Cabinetry is in Punta Gorda for the installation of Cardell Maple cabinets. He starts with an overhead box that is marked for placement using a laser level. Since the exterior walls are concrete and the wall studs are steel, Bob asks how they handle installation. Wagner explains that as with wood, it's a matter of finding a stud and tacking with a finish nail before screwing the cabinets in place. Once tacked, the cabinets are checked again for level and screwed together with 2 1/2-inch flathead, square drive, zinc-coated screws with wood master tips that are serrated and cut through wood like a drill bit. With these screws, Wagner can avoid pre-drilling. After the doors are reattached and adjusted for swing, the crew moves to the base cabinet, which is nearly level and needs only be shimmed in the back. It is checked with a laser line at the wall and two feet out before being drilled in and finished with a toe kick. Bob shows the crown molding that is glued and tacked in place at the top of the cabinets for a finished look.
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Florida Kitchen Cabinet Installation

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" Well let's look over here where rich and Jose are getting ready to install some of these offers. All right so this is a box that goes over the refrigerator area yes. And since. You mark Marcos. Now the exterior -- house are all solid concrete. Which would be not too easy to be driving cabinets onto but. These are interior partitions and -- steel so how do you figure out where your nailers. Well I mean and the rest of the perimeter of the kitchen we had. That was. Just a the wood put between studs season. Just nails and -- to Americans OK walls that don't have that we have to find the says this is a small -- something like. All right in the next unit that goes next to it is a bookshelf right. It does have the doors taken off literally two doors faces of the evening. Racial journalist -- okay. Mostly surrogate faces line up over time now you've just got them tacked up with two screws obviously going to be very. -- And the key thing here is you've used your laser level to establish. A level line via the -- finals me shattering adhesive connected I refine that principle hire those assessments that. A little bit this for in my line fact in this new Hampton long effect and we got two sticks that are cut to that height. Whereas the deadline Olsen got Lulu Justin soon. -- All right so now we move. Connect. Number one to number two. -- what kind of screws are you using. He didn't have a two and a half inch flathead square drive zinc coated has a woodmaster tip on it. Basically teach pre drill through one cabinet you don't have to pre growing for the second cabinet oh that's good to -- rated so -- cuts away like a -- of what. As far as -- not going. Two inches in the next piece right there -- you're good. Terrific and then once you've got them all secured you'll reattach the doors yet after all together that's. Yeah I -- the respect just. -- the world nice job. Okay the doors back on -- the overhead cabinets look nice and finished. And we've got the base cabinets in place. Is it pretty level rich."

" Just not too bad -- Percent of the front corner over here with the light on you have to be my god I'm going to have to back up a little bit this -- of -- touch OK which isn't unusual with tile down. They kind of run with the floor you got tile this large you have to so they flat. Sure so it just another instance of finding the place to shim it not yet. Pretty much threat back chorus of substance like. So that level line is consistent along the wall and even two feet out from the law."

" And that's -- can make sure it's gonna be -- In both directions. All right so now we cut the shims out of our way and then we'll dress the front of the toe -- This is the crown molding which is the last step at the top and rich is just measuring for. Cutting the two angles then he'll glue all three pieces together before attaching them and this is what finished look will be."

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