At what height to hang kitchen cabinets: do-it-yourself video instructions for installation, photo and price

With the help of wall cabinets, which are included in the furniture set, installed in the kitchen, you can perfectly solve the problem of storing things such as household appliances, kitchen utensils and food supplies. Before the kitchen unit is installed, it is necessary to determine at what height to hang the kitchen cabinets.

These items must be placed at eye level, and the choice of height for these cabinets determines how how the interior will be perceived from an aesthetic point of view, as well as how durable it will be design.

Suspension height of cabinets in the kitchen

The most convenient arrangement of lockers

The location of the kitchen cabinets

How conveniently the kitchen items will be located is determined by how tall the owners of the room are and how high the items are.

The most acceptable distance from the countertop to the wall cabinets is determined at 55-60 cm, and it allows you to freely install such devices as:

• juicer,
• coffee grinder,
• toaster,
• electric kettle, etc.

GOST defines this distance as 45 cm.

Furniture modules are installed depending on the height that the owner of the kitchen has. The distance between the floor and the top edge of the cabinet should be 20-25 cm higher than the height of the person.

Due to the fact that the design of modern fittings is well thought out, the mounting process is greatly facilitated. Therefore, this allows you to ignore small flaws that may appear in the markup.

Kitchen items are equipped with a hinge, which has hooks that extend beyond the plane of the back wall and which cling to a special mounting plate. This bar is fixed at the calculated height.

Methods for arranging lockers at the desired height

Using hinges and fasteners

Hinge hinges

The procedure for carrying out the hitch:

• The upper limit is determined and a horizontal line is drawn along the entire possible length of the cabinets or one cabinet that is intended to be suspended.

Tip: In order to better perform horizontal markings, use a water level. As practice shows, it has the smallest error in use.

• The first point is marked on this line in order to drill a hole for fasteners, which is most often a dowel-nail, using a drill or perforator.
• Fasteners are installed.
• Metal hinges or brackets are screwed to the furniture itself with self-tapping screws, which allow certain shifts in the horizontal direction - in order to ensure better adjustment.
• The cabinet is hung, leveled using a level, the second attachment point is marked, the cabinet is removed from the wall. Further actions are performed similarly to the previous ones.
• At the final stage, after hanging the cabinet, it is checked whether its upper edge and the drawn horizontal line coincide.
• The same operations are performed for other cabinets.
• Cabinets are connected using furniture screws, with holes pre-drilled. Care is taken to ensure that adjacent cabinets are at the same height.
• A unifying decorative cornice is installed, which is screwed to the upper base with screws.
• Are hung kitchen fronts, shelves are installed, the doors are checked for tightness, for sagging, for the possibility of interference when closing. Possible disadvantages are eliminated by using the adjusting screws.

Using a mounting rail

This is the easiest way to hang kitchen cabinets using a special mounting rail. It is a hook that is attached to the side of the cabinet, while it protrudes just a little from the cabinet. And itself, the mounting rail, which is installed on the wall, at a certain height and serves as the basis for which this hook is hooked.

A mini-instruction telling about the height at which kitchen cabinets are hung with this method:

• Preparatory work is being carried out, including the alignment of the interface surfaces, the completion of electrical work related to the connection of sockets, as well as overhead lamps.
• The height at which the kitchen items are installed is determined.
• Lines are marked on the wall, which indicate the boundaries of the cabinets and the places in which the mounting nests are located.
• Holes are drilled and fittings are installed for mounting the mounting rail.

Attention: Be sure to make sure that there is no hidden electrical wiring in this place.

• Cabinets without shelves and facades are suspended on a special mounting rail (a building level is used).

Suspension of cabinets on a rail

• Using clamps, the cabinets are combined with each other, while for reliability, special gaskets are used that look like wooden pegs.

• Holes for the screed are drilled in the cabinets. To avoid chipping, the drilling operation is recommended to be performed in two steps: first, the hole is drilled with a thin drill, then with a thicker one.
• Kitchen cabinets fastened into a single structure.
• The doors are hung on the facades, and their relative position is aligned using adjusting screws. Usually they are included in the supplied kit or they are mounted in a hinge at the factory during manufacture.

The advantages of this method

Easy and quick to hang

• all the work can be done independently, with your own hands, because the process of hanging cabinets on a bar that is already installed is easier;
• cabinets can be moved using rotating screws, while ensuring their alignment;
• the structure can be made more reliable by splitting the rail into pieces and fixing it to the cabinet location using three screws per piece. This will increase the strength of the structure;
• the hitching procedure is accelerated, which in this case proceeds much faster.

Disadvantages of this method

• the price that a complete set of parts has is high when compared with a conventional set of hinges;
• the structure does not fit snugly against the wall, resulting in a small gap between the cabinets and the wall.

Summing up

Convenient location of lockers

To hang kitchen cabinets since it is necessary, without knowing at what height the kitchen cabinets are hung, it is almost impossible. The main criterion for how this height is determined is the height that the owner of the kitchen has.

Attention: Of course, each specific case assumes the individual growth of a person, but the height of the hitch will be optimal in the event that it allows you to reach any of the shelves and at the same time, additional coasters.

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