subject: kitchen cabinet installation basics [print this page] When installing your kitchen cabinets, the technique you choose to keep them level will depend on your method of construction. If your lower cabinets feature an integral toe kick, you can use leveler legs or shims to position the cabinets level, plumb, and square with one another before nailing the cases to the studs. your cabinets are simple carcases, leveler legs or a plinth base are both suitable.
While the plinth base can be used with any lower cabinet, it is particularly well-suited to islands and peninsulas. This is because both of these cabinet types are difficult to secure to the floor while hiding the fasteners. The plinth is leveled first with shims or adjustable levelers, then fastened in olace with a few L-brackets screwed to the floor and inside of the plinth. The island or peninsula is then screwed onto the plinth.
Upper cabinets can either be screwed to the wall studs through nailer rails,specialized commercial hardware, or hung on beveled wooden support rails screwed to both the cabinet ind the wall studs.In both upper and lower cabinets, shims are used to level the cabinets and make them all appear to be a single unit seamlessly joined to the kitchen. Scribe rails and filler strips should take care of any gaps.
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