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Cutting kitchen cabinets to fit microwave.
It sounds tough and a bit crazy but it worked fine.
Many of the older style kitchens were not built to accommodate a microwave over the range.
How to cut a microwave opening in cabinetry 1.
It s possible to shorten a hood cabinet so an over the stove microwave will fit.
The standard clearance is about 69 off of the floor to the bottom of the upper cabinet that is over the stove top.
Due to the integrated installation of the cabinets certain moldings trim shelves or fillers can t be disturbed by removing the entire cabinet.
We have a grey yes elephant grey hood fan that vents back into to the kitchen for goodness sake and a cabinet to take out and he could not visualize how the new bigger microwave could fit it we took out the cabinet.
Use a cordless gun to remove the hinges from.
If you surgically remove and shorten the bottom.
Select a location where you will be able to run wiring if you don t already have an electrical.
He needed this to see how our new micro could fit.
Remove any doors that cover the spot where you wish to cut the opening.
How to cut a cabinet for over the range microwave step 1.
My husband is a photographer and very visual.