The Cabinet Blog

This is one of several short videos showing some activities of Riderwood Friends of Habitat for Humanity. As a group of retirees we specialize in making sets of bathroom and kitchen cabinets for installation in homes being built by the three local Habitat Affiliates in and surounding Washington DC in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties in Maryland. This little video shows some of our friends loading Kitchen cabinets for delivery and installation at the Linganore Woods Project of the Montgomery County Affiliate.

They saw the evolution of the cabinet installation. It’s okay, the company has completed their design work was going. It is very easy to do.

Installing kitchen cabinets — Andy Bell of Handyman Matters shows us how to install base and upper kitchen cabinets. Using standard 30inch base cabinets, he first makes sure the floor is level, and then puts the base cabinets in place. Next he connects the base frames so they look clean and professional, pre-drilling the holes so that the brittle wood doesn’t crack. He makes sure the cabinet faces are flush, countersinks the screws so that they don’t stick out, and connects the base cabinets together. The next step is to find the framing of the house so he can screw the cabinets securely to the wall. Taking doors off before setting the cabinets makes the job a lot easier. Upper cabinets are installed similarly, but require two people to lift the cabinets and hold them in place.