Zrexxer
Well-known member
Well, it took me awhile, but I finally got sick of walking around the Gladiator wall cabinets I'd bought, ummm, about 10 months ago...
I knew where I wanted to hang them, but I had to have a plan in my mind. Since the woman is in New York this week with her daughter, it gave me time to get it done.
They were intended to go into an alcove between the water heater closet and the outside wall that's 88" wide, but it's an interior wall and the studs are 24" OC.
So, one cabinet was only going to catch one stud. For the same stud spacing reason, I didn't want to use geartrack. So, I bought some 1x4s and mounted them across the entire width of the wall with 2-1/2" ITW screws, thereby picking up both corners and three studs in between.
The vertical pieces are intended only to close off the space behind the cabinets, so it doesn't become a den of spiders and insects. The center piece was really unnecessary, but I had one piece of wood left just that size so I put it in anyway.
Now, being the misanthrope that I am, I was hanging these alone, and I had to figure out how to get the cabinets over my head, and hold them in place while I lag-screwed them to the 1x4s. Without having to grow an extra pair of arms, of course. Digging through my stash, I found a piece of aluminum channel that looked like it would solve my issue.
I screwed the channel to the studs flush with the bottom 1x4, and voila! I had a ledge that I could set the cabinets on while I secured them.
Now it was just a simple matter of lifting the cabinet up onto the ledge and sliding it into place, then using a cordless driver to secure two screws.
Once the cabinets were secured, I just unscrewed the temporary aluminum ledge and the job was done. There is going to be a built-in bench go underneath these... eventually.
I knew where I wanted to hang them, but I had to have a plan in my mind. Since the woman is in New York this week with her daughter, it gave me time to get it done.
They were intended to go into an alcove between the water heater closet and the outside wall that's 88" wide, but it's an interior wall and the studs are 24" OC.
So, one cabinet was only going to catch one stud. For the same stud spacing reason, I didn't want to use geartrack. So, I bought some 1x4s and mounted them across the entire width of the wall with 2-1/2" ITW screws, thereby picking up both corners and three studs in between.
The vertical pieces are intended only to close off the space behind the cabinets, so it doesn't become a den of spiders and insects. The center piece was really unnecessary, but I had one piece of wood left just that size so I put it in anyway.
Now, being the misanthrope that I am, I was hanging these alone, and I had to figure out how to get the cabinets over my head, and hold them in place while I lag-screwed them to the 1x4s. Without having to grow an extra pair of arms, of course. Digging through my stash, I found a piece of aluminum channel that looked like it would solve my issue.
I screwed the channel to the studs flush with the bottom 1x4, and voila! I had a ledge that I could set the cabinets on while I secured them.
Now it was just a simple matter of lifting the cabinet up onto the ledge and sliding it into place, then using a cordless driver to secure two screws.
Once the cabinets were secured, I just unscrewed the temporary aluminum ledge and the job was done. There is going to be a built-in bench go underneath these... eventually.
