Furniture, Wood and Cabinetry Finishing - Installing New Cabinets

I'm about to install new cabinets in my kitchen, and was wondering if anyone had any advice/tips before I start. I planned on beginning by finding the high and low spots in the floor and ceiling, respectively, then tracing the new cabinet footprints on the wall. I understand that I will need to shim the base cabinets to bring them to the highest point and make them level, but do I need to shim wall cabinets to accomodate for out-of-level walls as well?

When I did mine and my dad’s we just laid them out where they should be. Just started to set a level around to see how bad things are and where you need to shim things. you will find out if your corners are square or not that was the biggest pain on my cabinets. Your toe kick will cover up the gape at the floor if you have one.

Good luck and ask any more questions if you want.

Allan

Best to hang wall cabinets first, nothing to interfere with you. When you find the high point, measure up 34 1/2"(standard base cabinet height) and snap a chaulk line. Find and mark all studs so you can find them when needed. Shim cabinets as needed to meet the line and level all ways. The cabinet fronts get screwed together. To make sure they are straight, use a long level or run a string. Shim out from the wall as needed. If the countertop will be stone or solid surface, the cabinets MUST be perfectly level, so spend a lot of time getting them right.

Cool. Thanks for the tips. Countertops will be quartz. One question for you....I will be installing a slide-in range, therefore, there will be 30 inches of countertop that runs behind the range. Do I need to support this section of countertop. I could simply attach a 2x4 to the back wall to give it support if that's at all necessary.

A 2x4 is good, sometimes a 1x is OK, depends on the CT installers. As long as it does not interfere with the range.