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Installing Kitchen Cabinets

Bob confers with cabinetmaker Brian Comeaux as he installs the kitchen cabinets built in his shop for the Studio City bungalow.
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Installing Kitchen Cabinets

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" Now this it again is all made out of -- firm over program vertical grain fir and it's any element of this folders. I don't know -- base -- and we had to replace the base cabinet because the original one was not from the fifties not wanting to twenty. But this even the inside shelves made out of for us remember this is also on so out of she said. Sense -- level that. And he threatened to do you know we've described in the back there's -- belly in the wall right here so we've described in the shelves here we're gonna go ahead and cut that's -- little fit flush against the wall now tell us how you did that is that basically just involves we just use -- tractor yeah and you senator that your your highest. Point on the gap right and then as you scribing. You started your highest point in the belly in the all the way across the news these lines that have been the wall exactly that's what you gotta remove them didn't -- help you move another -- shirt. And in some cases you could use a hand so in this situation where -- or a similar yeah. OK star -- movement and places are rerouting them. But we're lucky the floors nice and level -- otherwise you'd have to be shimming and putting in changing wouldn't let them. We get down there. -- uses a three inch drywall screws and how to fasten this cabinet to the wall okay you've already marked off. And we are marked we've marker stone stone wall. Now the overhead cabinet. Started out life in a house in the nineteen. Twenty apparently this section of it here. And Brian this is all new work right Uganda -- correct the left. They did a good job of stripping all the yellow paint that. Yet in. Now is -- gonna go one. One -- you have to also describe the ceiling is level of the walls are fairly flat so we're gonna -- and just throw street OK. Probably lifted up and -- will bring or any of -- step -- okay. -- There you go. And there's a gap at the ceiling the crown molding that goes right. Secretive -- of these long screws do you want to get. The good choice."

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" Is that the moldings going up here. We had pre -- This in. That and -- that's really nice. All right on this piece that goes along the side. Has been cut to fit exactly not just in the outside miter but is that coat to fit every as the old molding in the back. We'll be shooting them place. We're gonna start at the miter here since that's our most important area right there. Then just gone down the line every. You're -- every so often. OK so these are the old doors. That. Were painted yellow that the homeowners stripped down right Courtney yes and we're putting back the same hardware. Saying hinges. And it's such a pizza case it is nice job getting other paid out there. A lot of work yet. And then what about the rest of the -- the rest of them have to be kind of replicas herb mixture right front. -- we we took the old doors and duplicated news. Close is because these are the little ones that would have gone Clinton -- our original to the top and you've made exact copies him. For the top of the new cabinet. There. Nice work. Thank you out of the hinges -- together."

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