How to hang kitchen cabinets on a mounting rail?

Mounting kitchen cabinets to the wall is a critical part of installing a headset. Since these furniture elements are located at eye level, it is important to foresee all the nuances so that no error or mistake in the calculations would entail an unpleasant look. In addition, the load on the cabinets is very serious: they store various kitchen utensils, dishes, cans with preservation, etc. Thus, the design must withstand the full weight of objects. And of course, do not forget about the general perception of the kitchen and its interior, where the furniture surrounding us plays a special role. Based on all this, we will figure out how to hang kitchen cabinets on a mounting foam.

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Kitchen Cabinets: Installation Features

The installation of kitchen cabinets on the wall cannot be carried out without accurate calculations, in addition, all work must be carried out extremely carefully. Therefore, a certain sequence of actions is important: the choice of fasteners, preparation of walls, installation and a canopy. As a result of the work done, you will provide excellent functionality of the cabinets and the aesthetic appearance of the headset.

Basic Rules

There are several general rules on how to hang cabinets for a kitchen unit:

• Hinged elements of furniture should not in any way interfere with the operation of the kitchen hood.
• Before installation, make sure that the cabinets do not spoil the geometry of the room and its attractiveness.
• Practicality and optimality. The height of the cabinets should be comfortable for all family members, so that during the use there are no problems and inconveniences.
• Fastenings should be strong and reliable, since a safe environment in the kitchen room depends on them.

The height of the cabinets is the main parameter

The optimal installation of furniture elements depends on such an indicator as the distance from the floor. The main aspect for determining this value is the growth of the user, but he is a rather individual parameter. Therefore, there are several universal recommendations regarding the height at which the fastenings of cabinets are located from the floor. So:

• With growth from 155 to 160 cm, the optimal height is 175 cm.
• With growth from 160 to 175 cm, this parameter is 185 cm.
• With growth from 175 to 190 cm, it is advisable to place the mount at a height of 200 cm from the floor.

Important! You can calculate the height of hanging, based on the distance of the cabinets to the surface of the countertop. The optimal value in this case will be approximately 55-60 cm.

Regardless of how you will carry out the calculations, keep in mind that a comfortable device makes it possible to reach any shelf in the cabinet without any supports.

Design options

There are only two options for hanging cabinets in the kitchen:

1. Placement of all elements in exactly one line.
2. The location of the cabinets at different heights, that is, multi-level installation.

The choice of this or that option is influenced not only by your personal preferences, but also by several other factors:

• Number of wall cabinets.
• Their dimensions.
• Depth of furniture.
• Design, as well as the presence of decorative details.
• The need to set the backlight.

After you solve all these nuances, we proceed to the next question.

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Mount Selection

The determination of suitable fasteners is primarily due to the material from which the walls are made. Depending on this characteristic, fittings are selected:

1. Wooden wall. On such a surface, cabinets are best installed with hardened countersunk screws.
2. Brick or concrete base. It is optimal to use more reliable fasteners: dowels and anchor bolts, strong screws.
3. Fixing the cabinet to the wall of drywall. For fixing, screws and anchor bolts are excellent, which can withstand even fairly heavy attachments.

Important! Mounts are not installed on the drywall sheet, but on the profile of which the frame is made. Another option is to install long, durable bolts in the load-bearing wall behind the sheet.

In this case, you will need to cut a small hole in the GCR, through which you need to drill a concrete base to install the dowel. After that, the hole is masked by the cut out area by puttying.

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Wall preparation

How to hang kitchen cabinets evenly? Without surface preparation, a qualitative result will not work, therefore, it is necessary:

• Align the surface of the walls if there are any flaws, bumps or cavities on it. As a result, the plane should be absolutely even.
• If there are corner cabinets in the headset, ensure a perfectly flat angle of 90 degrees.
• Perform all the necessary electrical work, remove the sockets, put the lights.
• Cover the walls with decoration, perhaps it will be painting or wallpaper. In any case, you need to do this before you install the furniture.

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Cooking tools and materials

To properly mount kitchen cabinets to the wall, you will need the following tools:

• Hammer drill. Replace it with a hammer drill.
• Pliers.
• Beat cord for even marking.
• Hammer.
• Yardstick.
• Building level. As well as the hydraulic level, which helps determine how to hang kitchen cabinets evenly.

Now consider the materials that will be needed during the installation process:

• Components of hanging cabinets.
• Strong fastenings: screws, bolts, expansion bolt shields.
• Hitch
• Self-tapping screws and nails are needed to connect the parts.
• Ties for joining furniture sections.
• Hinges for cabinet doors.
• Tires

After you have prepared everything: the surface of the walls, materials and tools, determined the composition, we proceed to the installation methods.

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Installation methods

By and large, there are not so many options, how to hang kitchen cabinets on the wall, or rather two: standard and using a mounting rail. Consider each of them in more detail.

Method One - Traditional

The standard installation method involves the use of hinges and various types of fasteners - bolts, dowels, screws. The sequence of actions consists of the following steps:

• Once you have identified the top edge of the mounting fixtures relative to the floor (or countertops), draw an even horizontal line across the entire length of the cabinets that you will hang.
• Hydro-level check the correctness of the strip. This is justified, as there may be errors due to uneven floors.
• After checking on this strip, the first point for the hole for the fasteners, which is drilled with a hammer or drill, is designated.
• In the hole made, we mount the fasteners - a bolt, screw or other element.
• Now we equip the cabinets with hinges, for which they will be hung on the mounts.

Important! The hinges must allow slight horizontal shifts to adjust the hinged structures.

• We hang the cabinet, adjust its height with a hydraulic level, and then put the second mark for the fastener location. We remove the cabinet for the time being.
• In a similar way, we mark out holes for all suspension elements.
• At the final stage, the cabinets are suspended in order to check whether their upper edges coincide with the drawn strip.
• If everything is fine and even, the cabinets are interconnected with furniture screws.

Important! Drill the appropriate holes in the cabinets in advance, and their location should be at the same height. Otherwise, the aesthetic appearance of the furniture will suffer greatly.

• Then the unifying decorating cornice is mounted, which is installed by means of screws to the upper base of the wall cabinets.
• The final touches are the installation of facades, shelves, the adjustment of hinged kitchen cabinets, checking the doors and their tightness, the absence of gaps and crevices.

Method Two - Using a Mounting Rail

This method is simpler and more convenient. For him, special devices will be needed:

• Awnings, which are hooks mounted on the side walls of the cabinets.

Important! The canopy body is attached to the sides, and the hook itself protrudes 5 mm beyond the rear wall of the cabinet.

• Mounting rail. The bar is mounted directly on the wall according to a given height and acts as a base for which the canopy hooks cling.

The advantages of this method:

1. The possibility of self-assembly, while with the first option, marking up without help is unlikely to succeed. Mounting on a fixed rail is much easier and faster.
2. Twisting screws make it possible to move the cabinets in different directions - up and down or back and forth. This allows you to conveniently adjust the elements and align them.
3. Strengthening the design. Break the bar into several parts, fix it separately for each cabinet with three or more screws.
4. With this method, it is possible to carry out a canopy of cabinets even with the lower segments of the headset installed, which is unacceptable with standard installation.

Important! This installation method significantly reduces time costs and takes no more than three hours.

But the disadvantages of such an installation are:

• Firstly, the high cost of all parts.
• Secondly, insufficiently tight fit to the wall surface.

Where to start the process?

First, you need to install canopies on kitchen cabinets, which occurs according to this scheme:

1. Carefully remove the back wall from the cabinets, if it is already installed. Or do not fasten it until you fix the awnings.
2. Attach the canopy body to the side of the furniture box so that it contacts the top.
3. In this case, the hook should “peek” out of the cabinet by 5 mm.
4. We fix the canopy by means of two screws to the side wall.
5. Similarly, we attach the second canopy to the opposite side of the cabinet.
6. On the back wall we make openings for hooks. In both upper corners, we cut rectangles about 30 mm wide by 50 mm high at the edges.
7. We fix the lid on the cabinet using furniture studs.

Thus, it is necessary to equip all the cabinets that you plan to hang.

Well, consider the process itself, how to hang kitchen cabinets on a mounting rail:

• After mounting the canopies on all cabinets, set the hooks in one position.

Important! Recommended Position - Medium.

• Mark the wall - a line that will serve as a guide for the upper edges of the cabinets.
• Using a building level and a pencil, mark the mounting points of the rail.
• Drill holes in the marked areas and fix the mounting plate.
• Then the cabinets are hung on the rail, that is, the hooks hook with the corresponding grooves in the mounting strip.
• The installation is completed by the adjustment of the hinged kitchen cabinets. Furniture elements are aligned with the walls and adjacent cabinets, and after adjustment are fastened together. The actions taken are identical to the traditional method.

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Stock footage

Now you know how to hang cabinets in the kitchen, which is important to consider.You can choose the installation method at your discretion: perhaps you are satisfied with a more inexpensive and ordinary method, taking into account someone’s help, or faster and simpler, but requiring a sufficient amount of materials.