I work at a cabinet shop and it seems once a month someone buys a new refrigerator and its bigger than the old one so they need to replace the old cabinet ab.
Cutting kitchen cabinets to fit microwave.
He needed this to see how our new micro could fit.
The standard clearance is about 69 off of the floor to the bottom of the upper cabinet that is over the stove top.
These babies are never cute but they have dual functions and in a small.
We have a grey yes elephant grey hood fan that vents back into to the kitchen for goodness sake and a cabinet to take out and he could not visualize how the new bigger microwave could fit it we took out the cabinet.
Many of the older style kitchens were not built to accommodate a microwave over the range.
It s possible to shorten a hood cabinet so an over the stove microwave will fit.
Select a location where you will be able to run wiring if you don t already have an electrical.
If you surgically remove and shorten the bottom.
Use a cordless gun to remove the hinges from.
My husband is a photographer and very visual.
How to cut a cabinet for over the range microwave step 1.
Due to the integrated installation of the cabinets certain moldings trim shelves or fillers can t be disturbed by removing the entire cabinet.
It sounds tough and a bit crazy but it worked fine.
Make the cabinet over the stove shorter.