Kitchen Cabinet Making (part 2) – DIY woodworking India
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We were building the kitchen cabinet (please refer to the first part – Kitchen Cabinet Making (part 1) – DIY woodworking India). Lets finish it by hanging it to walls and then fix the door.
Before hanging it to the wall, lets check the door fittings. You will need minimum 4 pairs of blum hinges – 2 full close, 2 half close. Difference between half close and full close is, in the former, when the door is closed, the side edge of the carcass is visible and in the latter, it is not visible. We need 2 half close because I want it to fix in the corner and we will use it for the right side door in picture above. The left door is fitted using full close as the side edge of the cabinet carcass is not visible.
For cabinets which are wall mounted, we should use block plywoods. The reason being they are light weighted. Once you cut the pieces to the measurements as per your cabinet – 2 pieces here, its time to fit the hinges.
Blum hinges that we will use have 2 parts – cup part and the base part. Cup part fits into the door and base parts in the carcass. To fit the cup part, it is required to make a hole of about 1” diameter(check your hinge to be precise) half inch deep into the door as shown in the picture above. Screw the cup part in the door. Screws are included in the hinge package. Fit the base part to the cup part and fit it to the main cabinet. Do not screw them immediately. Once you figure out the suitable position to be fit, mark it, and remove the base part of the hinge. Now screw the same to the main cabinet body. Refer to the diagram. Once you screw all the cups and base parts of the hinges properly, its time to remove the doors from the cabinet as we have to first wall mount them.
DIY woodworking India will post a video how to do it soon. We can adjust few things in these hinges. I will show them all in the upcoming video here.
DIY woodworking India – wall hanging the cabinet
Make 2 holes with your driller for wall mount the cabinet. Diameter of the hole should be equal or little more than the diameter of the mounting screws. We will be using 3 inches long wall mount screws(available in local hardware store). Keep them ready. Once done, mark the 2 holes to be made in the wall. For paper marking and mounting, lift the cabinet and keep it at the position you want to hang in the wall, keep a spirit level on the top so that you know it is levelled. Once you position it correctly, mark the holes in the wall by a pencil or any other marker aligned with the mounting holes you have made in the cabinet. Drill the hols in the wall. Put wooden/plastic guttas into the holes and hammer them well. Once done, lift your cabinet, position it so that cabinet holes and wall holes align and then insert the wall mount screws to fit it to the wall. Done! I will add a video here too.