Fixing kitchen cupboards to wall

[foxyferret]

I have obtained some good quality wall cupboards from a neighbour who was changing the colour of their kitchen. These are for my daughter as she does not have enough. I am not sure how these will fit on the wall. I will try and describe. Inside the cupboard each side at the top, there is a small white box with screws going in. These are the same as my own kitchen. However, what puzzles me is the back. I can only describe it as a sort of square hanging loop and I do not know how these would fix on the wall. Do any abers know what I mean and how to put them up? Thanks for any help.

[scotman]

Fixing to a wall depends firstly on what sort of wall. Is yours plasterboard or plaster on top of brick?

[docspock]

A bracket is screwed to the wall first, the hooks you describe fit over the bracket. If you look inside the white box you will see 2 screws, one pulls the unit tight to the wall, the other raises or lowers the unit for levelling purposes.

[docspock]

Ask your neighbour for the associated brackets, he must still have them if he took the units down.

[docspock]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk...tem&item=120732081221



These are what you need.

[docspock]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk...tem&item=230572245663



These are the fittings you describe inside the units.

[foxyferret]

Thank you scotman. It is an old house and we believe the walls are solid. Some walls however, seem to have a cavity in between. It was not so much the tixing to the wall that was the problem. It was knowing which fixtures would fit the back of the cupboard. Docspock, that is exactly what I meant but I did not know what they were called. Thank you so much, I will hot foot to e bay as I think my neighbour has used the old ones for his new cupboards. Cheers both.

[docspock]

Hi Foxy, when fixing the wall brackets, make sure sure they are all in a dead horizontal line, also make allowance for the fact that the brackets should line up with the hooks.


I am sure you know the score.

[docspock]

In other words , the brackets are about 18 mm inside the outer edges of the wall units , that way , the sides of the units can go flush against the wall.

[foxyferret]

Thanks again docspock, I will take careful note of everything you have said. My drill is at the ready!!

[scotman]

Now that you are OK with type of plate and fixing you need you should ensure that you set the height adjusting screws at about mid point and the distance-from-wall screws sufficient to ensure that you can hook onto the wall plates. It's easy after that.

[Old_Geezer]

I have a similar problem so can sympathise. My kitchen has different walls, some plaster over pebbledash, is really difficult to drill into accurately, but there are others built with this awful light breezeblock stuff; the type my porch was built from, and which fails to hold even coatpegs without them falling out. Dreading trying to put the cupboards off only for one full of crockery to come crashing down on my expensive quartz worktop a few weeks later :-( So putting it off, and off, and off.....