If your planning on installing your own upper cabinets, for a kitchen, garage, or laundry room, then I would recommend that you either have someone help you or you can do it yourself. If you decide to not get help with the installation, here is what you should do. Actually, use this method even if someone is helping you mount the upper cabinetry to the wall. Make some prop sticks. Cut four pieces of wood about 48” long and 2 ½” to 4” wide. Usually 3/4” thick wood works just fine for this application. Pair them up so you have two sets. Now, by adding screws to them you can adjust the height of the prop sticks to correspond to where the bottom of the upper cabinets will be. If your installing the cabinetry where there is no soffit above, when you place them on the prop sticks it will be necessary to keep pressure on the cabinet against the wall at all times. This is where the extra person becomes very valuable.

Follow These Steps For Upper Cabinet Installation

If you have to remove cabinets because you are doing a remodel, take the time to prepare the walls properly. Remove humps of caulking sand fill and sand areas with Spackle paint.

Every situation will present its own set of circumstances, but if you follow these steps your upper cabinet installation will go smoothly. I will give this word of caution right up front, when you are working with special fillers such as fluted moldings or crown molding, read article Installing Upper Cabinets

The process of doing your own cabinet installation will go smother if you apply these tips from a professional installer. Obviously if you do not have some intermediate carpentry skills you should not try installing your own kitchen, vanity or laundry room cabinetry. These should give you some insight into a few of the tools that will be needed, the order of what needs to be completed before mounting the boxes to the walls and also the process of doing the install. read article Professional Cabinet Installation Tips