After watching the video below, you will know exactly how to install “light emitting diode” (LED) lights under your kitchen cabinets. It’s a lot easier than you might think. There are a minimal amount of tools required and for most standard size kitchens. The under cabinet LED lighting can be installed in a few hours.
There are a few different kinds of LED lights. The most common styles are the stick lights, tape strips and hockey puck designs To simplify these terms, they are commonly called bar and disc lighting. read How To Install LED Cabinet Lights
Now I’ve used hundreds of tape measures through the years. Until a few years ago, I had never seen one that has the measuring tape and a pencil sharpener combination before. The one featured in the video below is a Fast Cap brand. The combo tool is excellent for building or installing cabinets. I generally purchase two or three of them at a time. This ensures that I have one on hand to give away. I do this because this is the finest measuring tool I’ve ever used.
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Features:
Spring Clip-This is a unique operation that makes clipping the tape measure onto a belt or the edge of your jeans really easy. All you have to do is depress the clip and it expands. Slid it on your belt, release the clamp and it fastens securely. read Tape Measure-Pencil Sharpener Combination
You have to see the video below of these bright orange handle clamps designed for installing cabinets. The product in our review is called “Cabinet Claw.” These are the most amazing cupboard installation clamps I’ve seen in my twenty nine years of being in the kitchen and bathroom design industry.
An age old problem that cabinet installers wrestle with on a daily basis is walls not being plumb, level and square. They always have humps and bumps in them that create horrible difficulties when trying to get the faces of cabinets to align with one another.
If you don’t take the time to learn how to install your kitchen or bathroom base cabinets level, your cabinets will not look right. Even people who do not have trained eyes can tell when something is installed crooked. The videos below explain how to install base cabinets while using shims to make everything even. read How To Install Base Cabinets Level
What screws are going to work best for installing kitchen cabinets? To answer this question, we will explore the best fasteners to use in different forms of construction materials that the cupboards are being adhered to.
A different screw will be needed for securing cabinets to concrete walls than if they are going to hang from wood studs. If you are anchoring an island base cabinet to the floor, you will need an entirely different fastener than when you are hanging a cupboard from steel studs.
What type screw is best for fastening cabinets to wood studs?
I’d like to say that just about any wood screw will work, but there are is one that you must be careful to avoid. That screw is the really thin drywall screw. These are not recommend for fastening cabinets to wood studs. The heads break off to easily. I would recommend using the thicker drywall screw though.
After watching the video below, you will know exactly how to install “light emitting diode” (LED) lights under your kitchen cabinets. It’s a lot easier than you might think. There are a minimal amount of tools required and for most standard size kitchens. The under cabinet LED lighting can be installed in a few hours.
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