• Looking for recommendation for RTA cabinets

    Answers Given

    Answers Favorited

  • Has anyone had any luck with RTAs? How difficult are they to install? Suggestions on where to buy?

    1 0
    Question by felicity
    03/19/2013

One of the biggest challenges is making sure wall cabinets are installed flush with each other. One trick that helps a great deal, particularly if you are doing this by yourself, is to install a temporary rail across the wall under the wall cabinets. This gives you a place to rest the cabinets as you screw them into the wall and to each other while also helping assure they are at the same height. The second trick I'd suggest to help make sure adjacent cabinets are aligned with each other is to buy a couple of Vise-Grip locking C-clamps with swivel pads. If your cabinets have face frames make sure you buy clamps which are deep enough to go around them. Prop a cabinet up on the rail next to its neighbor, get the clamp adjusted so that it's almost tight, finalize alignment, snap the clamp shut to hold position, and screw the cabinet in place. The human eye is amazing at picking up tiny misalignment errors and this is a great way to quickly make them go away.

Answer by david harris
04/04/2013
« Back to Previous Page
Cool tools really work.

A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website that is tried and true. All reviews on this site are written by readers who have actually used the tool and others like it. Items can be either old or new as long as they are wonderful. We post things we like and ignore the rest. Suggestions for tools much better than what is recommended here are always wanted.

Tell us what you love.