Cabinets in our kitchen life is an indispensable part of the importance of cabinets in the kitchen is self-evident. Due to the different kitchen layout of different people, cabinets are generally taken to customize the way. Then you know what to do when installing cabinets?
What are the precautions for installing cabinets?
The overall cabinet installation generally requires two installation technicians, cabinets approach will be in accordance with the cabinet - wall cabinet - countertops - faucets, washbasin - stove, electrical installation order.
1. Cabinet installation: Before installing the cabinet, workers should clean the kitchen floor in order to accurately measure the ground level. If the cabinet and the ground can not be reached during installation, the gaps in the door of the cabinet can not be balanced. The installer can measure the ground level and the wall surface by using the level ruler to adjust the level of the cabinet.
If the cabinet is L-type or U-shaped, you need to find the reference point, L-type cabinet from the right angle to both sides of the extension, if installed from both sides of the middle there may be gaps, U-shaped cabinet is the first of the middle A word cabinet neatly stacked, and then from two at right angles to both sides of the code, to avoid the gap. After the cabinet is placed, it is necessary to level the cabinet and adjust the cabinet level through the adjustment legs of the cabinet.
The connection between the floor cabinets is also an important step in the floor cabinets installation. Generally, 4 connecting pieces are needed between the cabinets to ensure the tightness between the cabinets. Some cabinet manufacturers to save installation costs, the use of poor quality self-tapping screws to connect. Self-tapping screws not only affect the cabinet beautiful, and only from a lock cabinet, the connection is not high.
2. Cabinet installation: cabinet installation can be carried out after the cabinet installation, installation of cabinet, in order to ensure the level of expansion bolts, you need to draw a horizontal line in the wall, under normal circumstances the horizontal distance from the table 650 mm, Consumers can according to their own height of the situation, proposed to the foreman and cabinet to adjust the distance between the cabinet to facilitate future use.
When installing the hanging cabinet, it is also required to connect the cabinet with connectors to ensure the connection is tight. After the cabinet is installed, the level of the cabinet must be adjusted. The level of the cabinet will directly affect the aesthetic appearance of the cabinet.
3. Countertop installation: As the kitchen decoration, will lead to the original size of the cabinet plan error, in order to reduce the error, some cabinet manufacturers in the cabinet and cabinet installation is completed after a period of time to install countertops, it is easy for designers to adjust Cabinet and hanging cabinet may appear after the installation of table error, to ensure the accuracy of cabinet installation data.
According to reports, the current consumer use of the countertops most of the artificial stone or natural stone countertops, stone countertops is a few pieces of stone bonded together, bonding time, the amount of glue and polished will affect the appearance of tabletops. Generally summer bonding table needs half an hour, winter needs 1 hour to a half hours, when bonding to use professional glue for bonding. In order to ensure the appearance of countertops seam, the installer should use the grinding machine to polish and polish.
4. Hardware Installation: Basin, faucet, basket is the highlight of the cabinet. In the installation of wall cabinets and countertops, in order to avoid falling into the basket rattan rail, the cover covering baskets, so as not to affect the future use.
Basin installation involved in the issue of water. Installation of cabinets, the installation of water will be used to open the way the scene, with a professional punch in accordance with the size of the pipe drilling, drilling diameter should be at least 3-4 mm larger than the pipe, and after drilling to open Part of the seal with a seal to prevent wood edge infiltration expansion deformation, affecting the cabinet life. In order to prevent water seepage from the basin or into the water, the connection between the hose and the basin should be sealed with a sealing tape or glass glue, and the hose and sewer should be sealed with glass glue. Due to the fact that the sewer line is located at the bottom of the cabinet, consumers can not inspect it. Some installers do not use glass sealant for cost saving, resulting in odor or water leakage in the sewer. If there is water leakage cabinets, the general may have three reasons: First, water pipes and hose connections Department of leakage, the second is the connection between the pipeline and the water leakage, there is a case of the quality of the pipeline itself.
5. Electric stove installation: cabinet embedded electrical installation only need to open the power hole, but the power hole can not be opened too small, so as not to facilitate the removal of the future maintenance. Some consumers because of the poor appearance of the water meter and workers require workers to wrap up, Hu Yongzhong said that if the workers will water meter, gas meter package, the future maintenance will be troublesome, the country also has the relevant standards do not allow the packaging meter, gas meter.
In order to ensure the use and smoking effect when installing the range hood, the distance between the range hood and the hob is generally between 750-800 mm. If the installation height is too high, the smoking effect will be affected. When installing the range hood with the cooker alignment, the level can be adjusted according to the actual situation.
The most important thing is to connect the gas stove installation, we must ensure that the mouth of airtight gas supply should normally be natural gas company to send someone to connect, if the decoration workers to install, but also need to allow natural gas company door leak.
6. Adjust the door: the last step is to install the cabinet door adjustment, to ensure that the door gap uniform and vertical and horizontal, the cabinet depth is generally 550 mm, hanging cabinet is 300 mm, consumers can also be adjusted according to the actual situation. After adjusting the door, workers should also clean up the garbage left when installing cabinets, to ensure the owners kitchen clean.