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| New Kitchen Cabinets |
A couple of weeks ago I spent five days helping younger son install some IKEA kitchen cabinets. You wouldn't think a simple project like this would take so long, but you aren't allowing for the fact that we only managed to put in a couple of hours a day, and half of that time got ate up with driving to Lowes.
The project was a little tricky because the duct for the vent was right on the edge of the middle cabinet. We cut out the corner of the cabinet which meant the hanger in that corner went away. We got around this by bolting the two cabinets together.
The biggest headache was mounting the range hood. Because of our complications, we had to install the vent after we hung the cabinet, which means we had to hold the hood in mid air and align the screw holes that were up inside the hood with the brackets bolted to the cabinet. For reasons known only to IKEA, these screws, and only these screws, had tiny Torx heads (T-10) and none of the bits in our box of driver bits was small enough. Never fear, IKEA has a solution:
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| IKEA Torx Bit Adaptor for Range Hood (Cabinet and Hood are shown upside down) |
It was awkward but it worked, until the tip of the adaptor snapped off.
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