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Installing Kitchen Cabinets

Todd Allen and Jim Shiels explain how they deal with the idiosyncrasies of a 100-year-old house as they install the first of the Heritage cabinets in Bob's kitchen.
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Installing Kitchen Cabinets

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" Todd give her in the kitchen installing the first direct cabinets that. -- was actually three separate boxes that you glued together right time that's current want to put them up one piece at a time it's easier to get a good fit and finish. If -- assembly on the floor and that's the joint where you just take your finger exactly exactly so minority get a really good good good fit. And to make sure they don't move later when things settle. That's -- but of all together now this is a hundred year old house and you've got to four anchors here and had a side of the door of the dining room. How do you make sure that their level one with the other. Well we use is a water level because the water seeks its own level Independent of any other dimension in the house -- it so that gets us all on the same level. Since the houses out of level great to you have to measured from the floor at this point from the port that point you just use the water level dislike the egyptians did a few thousand years ago that that's fine print. And what about at the top -- do you you have to fit him molding up there no taxis in described in so we've just left don't want in space first describe it to fit the ceiling when that'll be talking with strike coming -- well."

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