Getting rid of unwanted kitchen cabinetry
 

Okay...this is a question for anyone who knows anything at all about carpentry and cabinets:

How do you remove unwanted kitchen cabinets, and is it a difficult job?

I have cabinets on one side of my kitchen laid out in an L-shape, and on the end with the extension that comes out from the wall there is a lazy susan in the corner cabinet. I HATE the lazy susan. (The door in front of it is at an angle facing the inside of the kitchen area.) Dishes always get caught behind it or under it, making it difficult to turn, and there's no door on the other side making removing these items next to impossible.

I want to chop off the end, make the cabinet with the lazy susan a regular cabinet, and then MAYBE extend the countertop for extra eating space and food prep area without the cabinets underneath.

Is this a hard job, too difficult to justify nagging my husband into taking on the project? Or is it easy enough that I could break out the saw and do it myself?

Any ideas? Any advice? :coffee2

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I would attack it...however I don´t know how inclined you are to building things...

I don´t mind taking a chance on trying to fix things...however....

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Attack sounds good! :D

I don't need much encouragement at this point. LOL!!!! There are lots of different saws in my husband's workshop. :hmmm

I also wondered if the end cabinet could be removed in such a way that it could be used elsewhere, maybe even on my back patio to hold gardening supplies or something....

Hmmmmm....

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Fall in luv with Lowe's.

You can look inside and to the back wall and tell if they are prefab cabinets and merely hung on the wall. Just visit the store and have the clerk educate you and take a brochure. Then you may be able to tell if the lazy suzan is a separate unit. It can be removed and the real deal is you may need all new custom countertop to cover the replacement cabinet.

Before I started going to church, i demolished a total kitchen on a sunday morning and had built from scratch and treated some fine mahogany cabinets. 15 days total. Prefab is so incredibly easy. It just takes very few tools and some shims to level it. The other issue beside surface, is flooring. Your flooring was most likley laid after the cabinets were in.
counter top and flooring are the biggest problems ahead.

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How to demolish a kitchen?

C4. Works every time.

:lol

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Demo saw and a crow bar

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Ohhhhhhh, I didn't even think about the FLOORING!!! Good point.

:sad

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It don't matter... change one thing, anything! And you'll end up replacing the whole kitchen.

When you get done (and good at it!) come by our place. The kitchen's been nagging at us for a long time.

Better yet, Timmy come on by! The C4 sounds like a good trick.

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actually this is one of the things i do for a living, can you post some pics? and i can explain it for you its easy with a little help. believe it or not i install for lowes. ps dont break out the saw yet you shouldnt need to

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Okay, I'll try to do that in the next day or two. Thank you!!!!

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Are you doing this without asking your husband? I need to know!!! :toofunny

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Hire a professional, pls! IF it doesn't work out with Lowe's employee, its really harder
than you think and that anyone can explain with any accuracy., plus anything you do is going to be PERMANENT., you can't go back., BE SURE first.
My husband does this type and more, work., I've seen him make it look easy, but i know its not.
Also you MIGHT try self-help videos, I know that HGTV.com has some helps all over that site, or links., Lowes has a site, too.
as well as other big name stores, or just google a search, IF you feel that you can follow directions fully.

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Removing kitchen cabinets

http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/askt...147842,00.html

(1) Remove any trim or molding.
(2) Turn off the stop valves under the sink, disconnect the supply hoses, and take out the sink.
(3) Disconnect and remove the range, dishwasher, and any other appliances that might be in the way.
(4) Remove the countertop.
(5) Take out all the cabinet drawers and doors. Removing the cabinets themselves is simply a matter of undoing the installer's work in a logical order—base cabinets first, then the upper cabinets.

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YES!!!! If at all possible! :D

It's okay...he's very tolerant of my projects, and will fix it if I make a mess of things. If it's too hard, I'll try to persuade him to do it for me.

It's really easy, you know...you just say, "Honey, can you chop off this cabinet for me? If you don't know how to do it, Bruce (our carpenter) can do it for $200.00."

:D

Is that manipulative? :coffee2

Re: Getting rid of unwanted kitchen cabinetry
 

I'm not replacing all my cabinets. I just want to get rid of the one on the end.

I'll try to post pictures later for oletime. *gotta run*

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Well, a little manipulative, but how do you get them to do anything? I have my husband on a project right now and he's dragging his feet - big time!

It isn't that easy with my husband either. If I say, "Could you, please......?", he says I'm telling him what to do and he won't do it. :smack

Friday, I said, "Could you mow the lawn before so and so comes over?" He looks at me and that means, "No, because you told me to do it." He never mowed the lawn! :smack

Good luck! :thumbsup

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My husband doesn't like to be told what to do either. I HAVE to ask politely, or it will never get done. But even if I ask, he may not do it, at least, not in MY time frame.

Men! :foottap

:D

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Thank you, Abigail! I thought I was alone crying in my milk, but I see I'm not alone!!! :friend


Lord, he can make me angrier than anyone in the whole wide world!!!!! :toofunny And I CAN ask politely, he still says it's telling him what to do!

Actually, if I could push him around, I wouldn't like that at all!!! :D

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I helped my ex husband put in our kitchen cabinets... I was the helper that held them while he screwed them into place... lol

However, it isn't hard to remove old ones...and I took out my bathroom vanity a few years ago... I just turned off the water, removed the plumbing stuff and took a hammer to the cabinet.... to make it small enough for me to carry to the trash. Then I went to a store and bought another one... came back and a neighbor had sympathy on me and helped me carry it upstairs.
I cut holes in the bottom of the cabinet for all the plumbing and installed the new facet and put it all together. Nothing leaks and hasn't for about 4 years...so I figure I did a good job.

You can do it. If the cabinets aren't bad, I would save them and use for storage somewhere else. :thumbsup

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Ladies, ladies...

Men REALLY do not like to be pestered. I'm glad you've figured that out.

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:toofunny :smack

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:smack
:ursofunny

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:toofunny

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