Hanging Kitchen Cabinets On Steel Studs
Olivia Luz
I am trying to hang 4 upper type kitchen cabinets on a wall in my garage.
Cut your panels long enough to span at least 3 studs for each piece. They will all be bolted together once installed. Sometimes we may use beauty washers and zinc screws or if the box has a solid 3 4 back we might countersink and putty or vinyl sticker the heads. Determine where the steel wall stud is located and mark the cabinet in accordance with the wall stud location.
You must install the fastener directly in the center of the steel stud. But if you do just hang the cabinets as is what you would want is a self tapping fine threaded washer head screw of sufficient length to go through the cabinet carcass the drywall and the steel with enough extra to make sure the threads are biting into the steel not just the self tapping part. The wall is 5 8 sheetrock over steel studs. The lightweight ones typical in residential remodeling likely don t have the strength to prevent pull out of sheet metal screws under heavy loads.
Take your time when locating the center of the support behind the drywall. When hanging a cabinet look at what is going to be in the cabinets. Mark the outline of each panel on the wall in its correct position. In a high rise i would hope they d using the heavier gauge studs.
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Mark lines on the plywood to line up with the center of each stud for screw placement. Steel studs come in different gauges. The heavier gauge studs may however. Hanging kitchen units on stud walls offers a small problem when fitting a kitchen as you need to ensure that you adequately support the weight of the wall units.
I d like to get reactions on a couple things about it. 1 how would you feel about hanging upper cabinets on 25 gauge steel studs the stuff you find at big orange. Da01 jan 5 15 at 19 14. I was planning on using a 1 1 2 x 1 1 2 cleat top and bottom for extra support.
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