Do-it-yourself kitchen assembly

The rule for assem­bling and installing a kitchen set is time­li­ness. It is nec­es­sary to start assem­bling the kitchen only when all the work on fin­ish­ing sur­faces, wall cladding with wall­pa­per is com­plet­ed, the process of installing elec­tri­cal wires and pipes for water sup­ply and drainage is com­plet­ed, and the design is not in dan­ger of major changes and recon­struc­tion.

The nuances of assembling a kitchen set

It some­times takes a lot of time to assem­ble a kitchen set with your own hands. The process is influ­enced by such a fac­tor as the con­sci­en­tious­ness of the man­u­fac­tur­er. Some­times the assem­bly instruc­tions con­tain gen­er­al the­ses and do not take into account that the gen­er­al rules may not be suit­able for the instal­la­tion of dif­fer­ent parts.

Incor­rect loca­tion of fac­to­ry holes is anoth­er prob­lem relat­ed to how to assem­ble a kitchen set. Assem­bly is com­pli­cat­ed by the fact that not always each cab­i­net is packed sep­a­rate­ly. Some man­u­fac­tur­ers wrap each board in a pack­age. There are times when some of the parts from the upper cab­i­nets of the kitchen set end up in the box con­tain­ing the low­er cab­i­nets. For these rea­sons, the ques­tion aris­es whether the own­er of an apart­ment with­out expe­ri­ence will be able to assem­ble fur­ni­ture on his own, because it is dif­fi­cult to assem­ble it him­self.

If the per­son who pur­chased the fur­ni­ture doubts his abil­i­ties, then you can order a turnkey kitchen assem­bly. Even if the fur­ni­ture body is ready, dif­fi­cul­ties may arise when attach­ing cab­i­nets to an uneven wall or when installing a kitchen set in a room with crooked cor­ners.

Required Tools

Some apart­ment own­ers tend to assem­ble a kitchen set with their own hands. Assem­bly requires a min­i­mum set of tools, includ­ing a stan­dard con­struc­tion kit (ham­mer, tape mea­sure, nail puller) and elec­tri­cal appli­ances.

A per­fo­ra­tor is nec­es­sary in order to drill a con­crete wall, among oth­ers it is the most pow­er­ful.

A hack­saw will be need­ed to cut the coun­ter­top, to fur­ther install the hob or sink. With a screw­driv­er, you can quick­ly screw a large num­ber of fas­ten­ers into the facade, so the assem­bly process will speed up. The next tool is a hexa­gon, it is bet­ter to pur­chase a whole set with flat and cross sur­faces. For assem­bly, you may need screw­drivers of dif­fer­ent diam­e­ters.

The process of assembling individual elements of the kitchen

To assem­ble the kitchen with your own hands, you need to study the instruc­tions that come with the fur­ni­ture set. There is a step by step assem­bly dia­gram. Each mod­el of kitchen fur­ni­ture is assem­bled dif­fer­ent­ly, but there are gen­er­al prin­ci­ples.

First you need to pre­pare holes for fas­ten­ers in the side boards, fas­ten the fas­ten­ers for the doors of the head­set. If the cab­i­nets have slid­ing shelves, then at the next stage of assem­bly, you need to fix the rails for these struc­tures.

Then the chop­sticks are insert­ed into the holes, for greater reli­a­bil­i­ty, the parts are fixed with glue. After mount­ing each draw­er, they turn to the assem­bly dia­gram of the kitchen set in order to com­pare the result with the image in the pic­ture.

After check­ing the cor­rect assem­bly of the parts, you need to return to work­ing with fur­ni­ture screws again in order to tight­en the con­nec­tions with high qual­i­ty. Dec­o­ra­tive plugs are placed on the screws that are locat­ed on the out­side of the case (they come in a sep­a­rate pack­age).

If the mod­el is equipped with legs, then the next step in the assem­bly will be their instal­la­tion. A sheet of mate­r­i­al (MDF, chip­board) is attached to the back of the cab­i­net, which will be turned in the wall.

Hang­ing cab­i­nets should have hinges or hooks (there are dif­fer­ent types of such fas­ten­ers on the mar­ket). In the future, with the help of these parts, the box­es will be fixed to the wall. In any case, the assem­bly of fur­ni­ture should take place in accor­dance with the step-by-step instruc­tions, because not every­one knows how to assem­ble a kitchen with their own hands. How­ev­er, the entire process is described in the attached doc­u­ment.

Wall cabinets

The upper mod­ules are assem­bled on the floor, then they are mount­ed on the wall with their own hands. The process is sim­i­lar, the upper and low­er parts are attached to the side walls. After installing the shelves, start mark­ing the holes in the wall.

The instal­la­tion of cab­i­nets of the upper sec­tion should not be inter­fered with by gas pipes, elec­tri­cal wiring, an exhaust tun­nel. Hang­ing box­es should be at the same lev­el. When the mod­ules have tak­en their place on the wall, they screw the screws into the facade to fix the doors on the hinges.

Bottom kitchen cabinets

First of all, the frame is assem­bled, it con­sists of 4 boards. Con­nect the side walls to the top, and then to the bot­tom. For this, self-tap­ping screws are used, and they are not com­plete­ly screwed in so that the frame is flex­i­ble.

The even­ness of the floor cab­i­nets is checked with a build­ing lev­el, the degrees of the cor­ners of the cre­at­ed fig­ure are checked. After that, the screws are screwed in until they stop.

In addi­tion to cre­at­ing a frame, the process of assem­bling kitchen fur­ni­ture involves fix­ing shelves. Their num­ber depends on the needs of the own­er of the apart­ment. When the shelves are installed, you can hang the doors.

kitchen cabinet

The head­set may include a tall cab­i­net. Its assem­bly takes longer. The wardrobe con­sists of a mas­sive base and a glass top. The first part is fas­tened with self-tap­ping screws, the side walls are fixed to the top and bot­tom boards. The process is sim­i­lar to the assem­bly of cab­i­nets, which were screwed at the very begin­ning to a ver­ti­cal sur­face or installed on the floor.

When the instal­la­tion of the frame of the low­er part is com­plet­ed, pro­ceed to the assem­bly of the base of the upper part. Fin­ished frames can be com­bined by plac­ing one on top of the oth­er, if it is com­fort­able to work at such a height. If nec­es­sary, this can be done after installing the shelves. A case with shelves and doors is heav­ier, so it will be more dif­fi­cult to lift the top.

Man­u­fac­tur­ers pro­duce dif­fer­ent lock­ers, the cab­i­net at the bot­tom may have draw­ers or shelves. Use the acces­sories that come with the kit: fur­ni­ture cor­ners or an eccen­tric cou­pler. Some shelves are fixed by get­ting euro screws (self-tap­ping screws) into round recess­es. The glass shelves and doors on the top of the cab­i­net have holes for mount­ing, so it’s easy to install the parts.

Cabinet with drawers

After assem­bling the base of the kitchen cab­i­net, the ques­tion may arise of how to prop­er­ly install the rails for retractable struc­tures your­self. It is nec­es­sary to mark where they will be fixed.

The rails must be sym­met­ri­cal, each part of the pair is installed at the same height from the floor so that there are no dis­tor­tions.

A minifix is ​​attached — a spe­cial met­al roller, thanks to which the box moves along the rails. It remains to check how the assem­bled part per­forms the func­tion.

drawer

What to do first — the col­lec­tion of kitchen cab­i­nets with draw­ers or the draw­ers them­selves, does not mat­ter.

The frame of the box is formed from 4 walls, the bot­tom is chip­board, MDF or oth­er mate­r­i­al. Glue is poured into the hole, then a dow­el is insert­ed to fix the joint. The bot­tom sur­face is attached with nails. The process of assem­bling the part is com­plet­ed by installing the guides for the box­es.

Corner cabinet features

The assem­bly of a cor­ner cab­i­net has a num­ber of nuances. Do not rush to fix the case with fur­ni­ture ties, since it is bet­ter to first deter­mine the degree of devi­a­tion of the angle, which was formed as a result of the con­struc­tion of the house.

The body of the cab­i­net should be adja­cent to two walls and fol­low the out­line of the angle between them, while the side cab­i­net should be even.

The low­er cor­ner mod­ule is equipped with a sink, and the upper one is designed for dry­ing dish­es. The floor cab­i­net is cre­at­ed with­out a back wall to pro­vide access to plumb­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions. The pecu­liar­i­ty of the assem­bly of the upper cor­ner cab­i­net is that it does not con­tain a low­er part so that water flows into the sink.

Kitchen installation

The next step is to fix the box­es in the planned place. First of all, the upper cab­i­nets are fixed for the con­ve­nience of the instal­la­tion process. When the box is attached to the wall, you can hang the doors. If you do it ear­li­er, they will inter­fere.

After the upper com­po­nents of the head­set are attached, a cor­ner cab­i­net with a sink is assem­bled. In this design, it is nec­es­sary to pre­pare holes for water sup­ply in advance (if there is a back wall) and install a drain grate.

In the process of assem­bling and installing kitchens, they move on to the next stage. Floor cab­i­nets are being installed. Care­ful­ly align all cab­i­nets in height and, if nec­es­sary, put a thin chip under the legs. The result is checked by the build­ing lev­el.

The sides of the head­set ele­ments must be leaned against the adja­cent walls of the cab­i­net (close), tight­ly pulled togeth­er with self-tap­ping screws (it is bet­ter to use medi­um-sized ele­ments: too small ones will not cre­ate a reli­able fas­ten­ing, and too large ones will vio­late the integri­ty of the attach­ment point) or spe­cial tie-bolts.

It is nec­es­sary to coat the recess between the table and the kitchen apron with sil­i­cone sealant and install the base­board. It is required to hide the wiring and elim­i­nate the gap between the wall and the bed­side tables.

Do-it-your­self fur­ni­ture assem­bly for the kitchen is almost com­plet­ed; at the last stage, built-in house­hold appli­ances are mount­ed. We make cal­cu­la­tions, after which we make mark­ings and cut out holes.