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Rail set dead level
The suspension rail is the reference for every wall cabinet, so it goes on to a laser line rather than a spirit level and hope.
Cabinet installation
IKEA kitchen cabinet installation in Louisville hangs on one thing above all others, which is getting the suspension rail perfectly level.
IKEA kitchen cabinet installation in Louisville covers assembling every carcass, fitting the suspension rail, hanging the wall units, leveling the base units on their legs, cutting and fitting cover panels and fillers, hanging the doors and setting the toe kicks.
Appliance housings are built to the appliances you actually bought. Countertops are separate, and we leave the bases level and true so they can be templated.
Assembly is most of the hours. A full kitchen is a lot of flat packs, and building them square is what decides how the doors sit later.
The suspension rail is the reference for every wall cabinet, so it goes on to a laser line rather than a spirit level and hope.
Carcasses are checked for square as they are assembled, because a racked box shows up as a door that will not sit right.
Cover panels and fillers are scribed and cut to the wall, so exposed ends look finished rather than left with a gap.
Each stage is signed off before the next one starts.
We measure the room itself rather than working from the plan, because walls are rarely square and the plan is rarely what got built. Every opening gets checked.
You get a layout and a written estimate broken down by stage, so you can see what the doors cost against the boxes against the install. Free, nothing to sign.
Cabinetry is built to the measurements we took, in the wood, door style and finish you picked. Lead time depends on the scope and we tell you before you commit.
Scribed to the walls, levelled, and fixed properly. Hardware adjusted so every door and drawer sits straight before we leave.
Everything on the rail is only as level as the rail itself.
Anyone who has ordered the kitchen and looked at the delivery. The system is well designed and there is a great deal of it, and assembling thirty boxes correctly is a different job from fitting them.
It also suits people who started and stopped. Half-built IKEA kitchens are common, and picking one up is straightforward once the existing boxes are checked for square.
We check the floor and walls first, since the leg-leveling range on the base cabinets is finite and a badly sloping floor eats it quickly.
The suspension rail then goes on to a laser line. Carcasses are assembled and checked square as they go, hung on the rail, and joined to each other so the fronts read as one run.
Cover panels, fillers and toe kicks are cut and scribed at the end, followed by adjusting every door and drawer front.
This is quoted as labor, driven by the number of units and the state of the room. The cabinets are already bought, so nothing here is product cost.
For scale, custom cabinets nationally run $12,000 to $20,000 for a standard kitchen before fitting, which is the comparison most people are making when they choose a flat-pack system in the first place.
Unit count drives the hours more than kitchen size does. Tall units and appliance housings take longer to build than a base cabinet, so two kitchens of the same footprint can differ noticeably.
If the cabinets came from somewhere other than IKEA, the same fitting work applies and that is cabinet installation in Louisville.
The old kitchen usually has to come out first, which is cabinet removal & disposal. We also fit custom closets in Louisville, and we work across the metro including cabinets in The Highlands.
Get a free written estimate and we will look at your Louisville kitchen and your delivery list before quoting.
Because every wall cabinet hangs off it. If the rail is out at one end, every cabinet on it is out, and adjusting the doors afterwards will not hide it.
Yes, and that is most of the hours. Building the carcasses square is what decides whether the doors sit right once they are hung.
The base cabinets have adjustable legs with a finite range, and a badly sloping floor eats it quickly. That gets checked before anything is built.
Usually. The existing boxes get checked for square first, since a racked carcass shows up later as a door that will not sit right.
We stay inside about 20 miles of Louisville, close enough to measure, template and install without the schedule slipping. These are the areas we cover most often.
Tell us the room and what you want out of it. You get a written estimate broken down by stage, free, with nothing to sign.