Hanging Newage Pro cabinets

[zeitgast]

Hi All

I am a newbie here and about to attempt an install of my soon to arrive Newage Pro cabinets in my home garage. I am thinking about hanging them from the wall rather than using the included feet but have a few concerns/dumb questions. Some (hopefully) relevant details about the garage ...

- The wall I intend to hand these from is on the interior side of the garage and it appears to have 3 sheet layers on top of the studs (dry wall on top of plywood on top of rigid foam insulation or some kind of sheet fire protection)
- The wall is thus about 1.5" proud of the stem wall
- Stem wall is about 11.5" high
- There is an outlet on the wall and the studs sound like they are 16" on center (my stud finder isn't very helpful given the thickness of the wall), haven't checked on the interior wall side yet but will

The cabinets come with a small metal top cleats for wall hanging but Newage says that this isn't sufficient to support loaded cabinet so they recommend putting four 1/4" x 2.5" lag screws into the studs. Their included hardware isn't going to be long enough so I will likely be using Spax Powerlags.

My Newbie Questions:
- Should I go with 3" or 4" Powerlags?
- What is easier/better with my impact driver-- T30 or hex head?
- Should I only attempt to screw into the studs or is it okay to screw into the sill plate at the bottom of the cabinet (worried about hitting bolt or splitting the sill plate)?
- Given the height of the stem wall I will have to drill into the back of my cabinets at the lower portion of the cabinet above where the manufacturer suggests-- does this matter?
- Are four Powerlags and the top cleats sufficient or should I rest the bottom of the cabinets on a 4x4 (or something)? (I don't have a lot of heavy things to store, just typical household stuff). If so does the 4x4 need to be attached to the stem wall or can it just sit on the garage floor?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Z

 

[509SC]

I'm certainly no expert, but when I get around to adding cabinets, they are going to be wall mounted. Impossible to clean under when they are on legs, plus it gives you a good place to store those long awkward things. I can't give you any help on mounting hardware depth, but I would think 1 1/2" of penetration should be adequate into the studs. If it was me, I would lag bolt angle iron, or angle aluminum to wall. Then I would set the cabinets on top, and secure to the wall. Now, you're just keeping the cabinets from tipping over by securing them to the wall. If they're strong enough to sit on the floor on legs, they're strong enough to sit on the angle iron.

 

[onecleanride78]

I just recently hung mine on the wall and love the way it turned out. I'm not sure about your mounting depth problem so I can't help there. What I did was got 4 pieces of 1x4 boards that are 12' long. I then bought lag bolts with hex heads. Measured and mounted two boards for top units and two for bottom. Then after pre drilling I ran lag bolts into every stud. That way when you place cabinets you additional mounting places plus studs. Then bought large half dollar sizes washers to fit on long screws and used anywhere from 8 to 10 per unit. I like the very small space the 1 inch board gives in back for electrical cords and what not. Only way they are coming down is the wall coming down! Just don't be a dummy like me and measure to the bottom of the electrical outlet without the butcher block on yet! Needless to say I can only use one outlet!

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[Schumi]

I just recently hung mine on the wall and love the way it turned out. I'm not sure about your mounting depth problem so I can't help there. What I did was got 4 pieces of 1x4 boards that are 12' long. I then bought lag bolts with hex heads. Measured and mounted two boards for top units and two for bottom. Then after pre drilling I ran lag bolts into every stud. That way when you place cabinets you additional mounting places plus studs. Then bought large half dollar sizes washers to fit on long screws and used anywhere from 8 to 10 per unit. I like the very small space the 1 inch board gives in back for electrical cords and what not. Only way they are coming down is the wall coming down! Just don't be a dummy like me and measure to the bottom of the electrical outlet without the butcher block on yet! Needless to say I can only use one outlet!

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You don't happen to have any photos of the process you described above do you?