Micheal: What we are going to do now is install our U-shaped kitchen. Using the same footprint
as we had before from the original, all the utilities will go back in the same place.
We have our cabinets ready to install. To install them what we need are these tools.
1.2 meter spirit level. We have our various drills. We have a power plane, mallet, ruler,
and clamps to hold everything together. But most importantly, you must protect your ears
and eyes.
So the first thing we'll do is level the floors, the walls. And with that I'll get Frank to
give me a hand here, so he can help me just check the levels, set our lines along the
wall, and start installing.
Frank: So using our long 12 hundred mil spirit level, we're gonna use that around on the
floor level, find the lowest point of the floor. We've been using that as a straight
edge. By looking for the little bubble in our spirit level, that low point is going
to be around here, this part of the wall here.
Micheal: The cabinets are 720, and you have a 1.45 kicker. So 865 is our maximum point.
We will mark that point across the wall here, and across this wall here. So now that we
have that done, we'll get the first cabinet in, square it up level. We won't fix it to
anything. We actually need to fix the cabinets together, so we're not pulling anything out
of shape. So as you can see, Frank's going corner to corner. It just makes it all nice
and square and level there. And what he will do is actually adjust the feet, so they fit
permanently onto the floor and there's no movement.
Frank: Yip, spot on.
Micheal: So what Frank's doing now is setting that level across the two cabinets, so he
can still make sure it's not falling down or actually rising up. Now that this is leveled,
we'll go and get the next cabinet. With a couple of simple fixes this
to the wall. It's not gonna go anywhere. Now, because we got draw fronts and a door on this,
we need to sit this back 20 mil from the face of this. The other front face will be flush
here, but this will be set back to the doors so we get a clean line straight through. So
using our rule, 20 mil. We need make sure the bottom is the same. Double clamp it, and
then Frank will fix it off.
Frank: Now that we have the base cabinets clamped together, using a drill driver with
our countersink bit, I will now do those holes for the screws. So I've put those holes both
top and bottom to make sure that the 2 cabinets pull together really well. Now I'm using my
driver to drive those screws in. So we've attached the end cabinet to our oven cabinet.
Now we're attaching the oven cabinet to our corner cabinet. Again, as Micheal talked about
the 20 milliliter backspace there, we're also got a 20 milliliter backspace here. So now
we use these clamps again, same process. Now we'll bring in the next cabinet which goes
beside the corner cabinet.
Micheal: What we have to do is level it and fix it. Because this cabinet has a door front
on the same as the one next to it, we don't have to have that 20 mil back set. It's already
been set up by the same panel here, and by that filling panel on the other end, so it's
a nice and clean line again.
Frank: Using the screws to pull the two base cabinets together. They're only 28 milliliters
long, that way I know that they won't poke their way all the way through the two bits
of timber here.
Micheal: Okay, we now have the next unit in, another corner unit. You'll notice these two
corners here. The walls have actually been set back. The reason for that is, when you
go into a tight corner, you won't always have a square wall. The plaster may differ for
some reason. So by having these little sets here, means you can plum it up to suit.
Frank: So again, we've been with the little cabinet. We've got to make sure that it's
level. Also making sure that the front of this base cabinet lines up with the front
of the adjacent base cabinet as well. My levels are good, and now we clamp them up together.
Yip, just might give that a bit of a tap. Yip, perfect.
Micheal: You can see we have already fixed the end panel here. Because we knew the measurement
was right, we could secure that in place before hand. We haven't got the back panel yet, because
obviously we're just putting the last of the cabinets together. Once they're fixed and
secured, then we'll put this in place. Now we've got all our cabinets fixed together,
we're going to fix this to the wall. It's imperative you have this parallel inside here.
So by measuring these 2 points here to make sure they're parallel, we'll get rid of that.
And there we have it, that's right. That's nice and parallel. So we're now ready to start
fixing it to the wall.
Frank: We've already located our studs here, and we've actually marked them. As we were
talking earlier, we do have a bit of a gap behind this cabinet here. So any sorts of
scrap material that you can use, any scrap timber, maybe some from the old kitchen we
ripped out, we've kept a couple of pieces of that. And that will be a spacer that will
go behind there. Same process as before. Pre-drilling, longer screws, straight into the stud.
We are going to continue fixing of our cabinets to the wall, working our way along. In this
case we've actually put two fixers into that stud, top and bottom. That way it holds both
the top and the bottom, whole cabinets held hard against the wall. Well, our cabinetry
is in.