RTA Cabinets: Buying, Building, and Installing your own RTA Kitchen Cabinets
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RTA Kitchen Cabinets
RTA Cabinets: Buying, Building, and Installing your own RTA Kitchen Cabinets
Now that you have your new cabinets, let's talk about assembly. RTA cabinets are about as easy to assemble as it gets. The basic box is held together by cam locks, which create a nice tight box (much stronger than staples or dowels). All that is required for assembly is a flathead screwdriver. For the drawer base cabinets, you may want to have a drill handy to help tighten the screws that are needed to hold the drawer slides and even the drawer faces together. Most of the cabinets can be assembled in less than 5 minutes. All of the kitchen and bathroom cabinets will come with step-by-step instructions on how to assemble them.
Once you have your cabinets assembled, it is time to start prepping for installation. The preparation work is the most important part of the process, since in most cases, the floor is not going to be perfectly level and the walls are not going to be perfectly straight... that is just the way it is. By finding the high spots on the floor and the bumps in the walls, you can take steps before installation to ensure that your kitchen cabinets are flush and level. If you are looking for step-by-step installation instructions, check out Kitchen Cabinets: How to Install Them Yourself. While RTA cabinets will involve more labor on your part, the savings versus custom cabinets, plus the savings from installing them yourself, will make this a rewarding DIY, both personally and monetarily.
RTA Cabinet Links
Looking for more information about RTA Cabinets? Check out some of these links for more information about buying, assembling and installing RTA Cabinets
- RTA Kitchen Cabinet Installation
- Step-by-Step Instructions on Installing your Kitchen Cabinets
- RTA Cabinets: What are they and why are they so popular?
- Not sure what RTA Cabinets are? Read this article to
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- Nealon52 Nealon52 Mar 30, 2008 @ 9:54 am
- Unfortunately I don't know of any companies that sell notty pine RTA cabinets. They usually stick to a couple of basic woods- Oak, Maple, and sometimes Cherry.
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- mike sullivan mike sullivan Mar 30, 2008 @ 9:40 am
- I, too, am looking for knotty pine cabinets -- did you have an answer for the first post on your website? if so, i'd sure like to see it. Thanks
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- Rich Cook Rich Cook Mar 4, 2008 @ 12:00 pm
- I am looking for RTA Knotty Pine Kitchen Cabinets aprox; 20 ft base and 12 ft wall
60-90 days
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- Herb Herb Jan 1, 2008 @ 5:40 pm
- I just compared prices and the RTA cabinets were consistently $20 to $50 dollars less per cabinet than Home Depot.
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- Janet Janet Jan 1, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
- Just the info I was looking for.Thanks,it was a big help
by Nealon52
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