Hanging Ikea Cabinets With Rail

The rails are about 90 long and and i needed two pieces as i was installing 106 of cabinets.

Hanging ikea cabinets with rail. Make sure all of your cabinet s hooks are hanging on the rail. Easy to use and hang cabinets. Ordered the rest of my kitchen to take advantage the sale on boyden gray drawers trim and doors. Papa51 pre bought these rails and a few upper and lower cabinets to help with kitchen layout.

Hang the upper corner cabinet on the suspension rail. So ikea sells a rail to hang the cabinets on the rail has a million holes in it and a t channel to slide the attachment hardware into this is a heavy double layer of gavanized 16 or 18 gauge steel. Had to drill our own holes on some spots of the rail to be able to hit a stud. Not all homes has perfect distance between studs.

We re going to finish off our cabinets with the same crown molding that matches the. Determining how high to hang the rail took some planning. This is a video to help assemble and install ikea sektion wall cabinets. The metal hanging rail comes as one 80 long piece but we only needed ours wide enough for the three 24 cabinets.

Cut the suspension rail with a hacksaw to the cumulative length of all cabinet units to be hung on the wall. Remember the cabinets will not sit flush to the ceiling and leaving room for crown molding or other trim. Identify position and height of wall hanging rail. Additional suspension rails may be cut and mounted end to end on the wall if extra length is required.

Suspension rails for ikea cabinets such as the akurum model are supplied in 80 inch lengths. Simply lift the cabinet you want in the upper corner into place and position the hooks onto the rail. Hanging the ikea cabinets we hung the cabinets as we assembled them starting with the upper corner and working outwards before moving on to the lower cabinets. Unfortunately covid closure messed with the sale.

On the back of your cabinets there should be hooks. Just wish the holes would be closer to each other to better hit the studs and get the screws centered into them. Hanging the cabinets went pretty smoothly owing to the fact that the rails were installed nice and level. The instructions suggested a hacksaw but our dremel made the job much faster.

Find high and low spots in ceiling using a laser level measuring up from line. Simplifies install and cabinets become flush inga j helps a lot with the installation.