How To Install Base Kitchen Cabinets On An Uneven Floor. Cut and sand the part down to the line using a skill or saber saw and a belt sander. If youre hanging new cabinets on an old wall in your kitchen youre likely to discover that the walls are uneven leaning forward or back or just randomly ridged.
Watch this video called How To Scribe a Base Cabinet. All sorts of problems arise when a cabinet is not level from drawers and doors that wont open and close correctly to counter-tops that show unsightly gaps where they meet an adjacent wall. The cabinets then go on the toe kick and can be slid around without moving the base covering.
I use it to figure out where the base cabinets will sit.
Now with the shims in place starting from the highest point of the void area between the floor and the toe base draw a line on the cabinet part using a set of scribes or a block of wood. From the floors high point I measure up 34½ and mark it on the. If youre hanging new cabinets on an old wall in your kitchen youre likely to discover that the walls are uneven leaning forward or back or just randomly ridged. If you try to use that wall as the guide to square your cabinets as you hang them theyll end up out of level out of plumb or both.
