Meeting Facts - Cabinet Joint

Tools Required

• Pneumatic nail gun and compressor – Preferably 18 gauge with 1″ to at least one-1/four” brads or staples – Available at most condominium facilities which include Home Depot and Lowes
• Wood glue – Titebond II is an super choice and to be had at any domestic improvement store
• Rubber mallet
• Wet rag (to wipe off extra glue drips)
• Drill gun with Phillips bit
• May want to apply a few cabinet clamps to help as a 2nd set of ‘hands’ on certain odd fashioned cabinets, but this isn't a demand
• Flat paintings surface that you can walk around. A paintings bench towards a wall is not usually appropriate as you can’t work from both ends of the cabinets

Packaging

• As a popular rule, Conestoga ‘over-packages’ the whole thing due to the price and fragility of finished wooden products. This effects in a remarkably low damage price, but it additionally method that you want to dispose of a whole lot of packaging substances. The packaging is composed primarily of cardboard, plastic strapping, thin foam sheeting and wooden pallets. Be positive to plan your paintings area therefore.
• All shelves can be packaged of their own carton with the cupboard description truly categorized on the quit of the field. Some cabinets will are available in several packing containers. For example, a tall pantry cabinet might come with the shelves and other items packed in a separate container. Such cupboard bins may be categorised ‘1 of 2’, ‘2 of 2’, and so forth. Each cupboard container will have the whole thing you need to gather the fundamental cupboard box. NOTE: For Inset cabinets, the face frames will no longer be full of the cabinet because it needs to be mated with its door/drawer front in the factory. The inset face frames are packed separately from the cabinet and will be found on the pallet(s) that incorporate your doors/drawer fronts.
• Cabinet doors are packaged one after the other and are NOT marked for a given cabinet. You will need to unpack all your doors and match them up with the shelves. The citation we provide lists the cupboard doors and drawer fronts separately and suggests exactly which cupboard every goes on, so reference your quotation for these information.
• Cabinet drawer bins come assembled and completed and are strapped to their personal pallet and wrapped in cardboard. As with the doors, the quotation lists every drawer box and its respective cupboard one at a time.
• Moldings and different parts and portions will are available their personal containers
• All objects could be shipped on pallets, so get admission to to a forklift and/or loading dock is helpful, however not required. Please see the ‘POLICIES’ section for more on delivery and your duties upon transport.

Set Up

• We endorse that you bring together a cupboard at a time. If you start unpacking all the cabinets, it will likely be clean to confuse your parts and pieces.
• Ensure you've got a flat, padded paintings surface. The ground of a garage is pleasant, but bending over may additionally grow to be tiresome. A low, stable desk may be ideal.
• Assembled cabinets soak up a piece more area than the flat packed ones! Be sure to plan where you will save your ‘paintings in process.’
• Get your nail gun/compressor, glue and rubber mallet reachable, due to the fact we are ready to build shelves!

Building a Cabinet Box

While there are a few slight variations in meeting between a wall cupboard and a base or tall cabinet, the concepts are the identical. The instructions under are just to provide an concept of the process, we strongly advise you view our assembly films or reference the assembly guide for more records before trying any assembly!

• Start with the face body laying face down on a padded floor.
• Lay a bead of glue inside the cupboard face body groove. You will see that there is a wide groove after which an 1/8″ deeper groove. Your glue bead may be on the 2 ‘shoulders’ of the wide groove. See the video for information on this step.
• Place your cabinet aspects onto the the front body with the aid of lining the splines in the Side panels with the groove within the the front fringe of the cabinet side. Tap the cupboard side into the face frame till the facet is firmly seated in opposition to the face body.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Be positive you have got the left and proper sides of the cabinet effectively located. This is crucial on wall cabinets with prolonged stiles and completed ends due to the fact the you can accidentally build the cabinet with the extended stile and the finished cabinet side at the equal aspect! It is definitely impossible to get the cabinet aside as soon as the glue sets, so pay interest as you gather the cabinets!

• Run a bead of glue approximately half of manner down the cupboard pinnacle and backside groove
• Place your cabinet pinnacle and bottom into the dovetailed cupboard groove so that the notched quit is going through up, the grooved part is facing down and the finished side is going through the interior of the cabinet
• Using even stress (and your rubber mallet if necessary), press/faucet the cupboard pinnacle or bottom down until the splines insert into the groove at the face of the pinnacle/bottom panel
• There must be no gap in which the face body meets the pinnacle/backside panel.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR BASE CABINETS: Base cabinets use spreader strips in place of a complete pinnacle. For clean reference as to how those are installed, watch the assembly video found on this internet site.

• Once the pinnacle and bottom are mounted, its time to insert the cabinet back. Lay a bead of glue on the left and right cupboard sides in which the lower back notch is. Lay a few glue on the cupboard pinnacle/backside tabs so one can insert in to the cupboard lower back.
• Lay the cupboard back in location and tap it into vicinity along with your rubber mallet. Ensure that the tabs for the top and bottom find their manner in to the slots inside the cabinet again.
• Using your nail gun (and being positive that the nail gun is directly up and down), region a 1-1/four″ end nail about each 3″ alongside the scribe line in the cabinet back and additionally nail along the cabinet again in to the cabinet side. This firmly fastens the cupboard back to the cabinet. Once the glue sets, the lower back will no longer circulate. This new meeting far handed KCMA’s standards for cupboard power while held on the wall.

CORNER WALL AND BASE CABINETS: These cabinets typically require two humans to bring together. We endorse which you examine the meeting manual which details the assembly for these shelves and illustrates the meeting with full colour images.