Weekend of Feb 15th - Cabinet Installation

Finally time to put together our new kitchen!  All the cabinets are assembled except for one of the 12" wall units, which came without the locking cams on the side wall...a little bit of a challenge to figure out 'what' to replace.  Joe from CTG/Indy was originally going to order in a new cabinet (an extra 10 days or so), but after speaking with their HQ in S. Cal, they are just sending me the new locking cam plastic fittings.  We're going to put up the wall cabinets first, and just work around the 'missing' 12" cabinet; since it's going to be 'open' next to the refrigerator.




This side panel was supposed to have the cam  insert pins,
instead of these two holes  (brown plastic insert like next picture)

This side panel was O.K. and included the cam lock/pins















Saturday, 6:09 pm, only one cabinet up!  It took quite awhile to get up the first cabinet, but I created a challenge with my design of the corner cabinets extending out beyond the adjacent wall cabinets, and within the constraints of the available corner cabinet sizes from Cabinets to Go vs. the original Menard's Schrock design.  You can see on the left side that we used two 2x4's to push this cabinet out away from the wall 3".

Saturday, 10:25 pm, O.K., now we're making some more progress...

 

 

 

By Sunday evening 2/17 (11:36 pm), the weekend is over, but we've now got all the main kitchen area upper cabinets installed, with the exception of the 12" cabinet with the missing part (goes on far left end (where ladder is).  Also, we'll need to add the 'fill'/trim strips (to cover the extended corner cabinets and some upper spaces).  I only ordered 3 fill strips, and we're estimating that we'll need more like 5 (so, I'll be calling Joe on Monday to order 2 more).

 

 

We've also finished setting the cabinets in the other half of the kitchen, though we haven't fully installed the pantry unit yet, but have it set into place. There's our friend Louie supervising Doug's work on the pantry placement (had to remove some of the flooring to get this unit into place).

 

 

 

 

That's all for now!  Base cabinets next, countertop installer scheduled to template soon after...