Cutting Kitchen Cabinets To Fit Microwave

How to cut a cabinet for over the range microwave step 1.

Cutting kitchen cabinets to fit microwave.

I work at a cabinet shop and it seems once a month someone buys a new refrigerator and its bigger than the old one so they need to replace the old cabinet ab. Many of the older style kitchens were not built to accommodate a microwave over the range. These babies are never cute but they have dual functions and in a small. Choose an over the range microwave.

My husband is a photographer and very visual. The standard clearance is about 69 off of the floor to the bottom of the upper cabinet that is over the stove top. 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.

Make the cabinet over the stove shorter. It sounds tough and a bit crazy but it worked fine. Due to the integrated installation of the cabinets certain moldings trim shelves or fillers can t be disturbed by removing the entire cabinet. It s possible to shorten a hood cabinet so an over the stove microwave will fit.

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. Remove any doors that cover the spot where you wish to cut the opening.