Select a location where you will be able to run wiring if you don t already have an electrical.
Cutting kitchen cabinets to fit microwave.
Remove any doors that cover the spot where you wish to cut the opening.
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.
These babies are never cute but they have dual functions and in a small.
Many of the older style kitchens were not built to accommodate a microwave over the range.
Use a cordless gun to remove the hinges from.
He needed this to see how our new micro could fit.
Due to the integrated installation of the cabinets certain moldings trim shelves or fillers can t be disturbed by removing the entire cabinet.
It sounds tough and a bit crazy but it worked fine.
How to cut a cabinet for over the range microwave step 1.
Make the cabinet over the stove shorter.
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.
How to cut a microwave opening in cabinetry 1.
My husband is a photographer and very visual.