{"id":1703,"date":"2021-08-26T14:52:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T19:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twomakeahome.com\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2021-08-26T14:52:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T19:52:04","slug":"how-to-remove-kitchen-cabinets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twomakeahome.com\/how-to-remove-kitchen-cabinets\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Remove Kitchen Cabinets"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you need to remove your cabinets in your home for a renovation project, it may not be a good idea to take a sledgehammer and smash them up. Although you may see people on the television shows like\u00a0Property Brothers<\/em>\u00a0on HGTV having fun destroying old cabinets, your cabinets may not warrant such tactics to remove them. So how do you remove cabinets from your kitchen in your home?<\/p>\n

First, you should start with turning off all electricity, gas, and plumbing. Then you want to remove dishes, cleaning products, and other things you have in cabinets and drawers. Finally, you want to locate the screws holding the cabinets to each other and the wall and remove them.<\/p>\n

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Aren’t you happy you don’t have to tear your cabinets up to get them off your wall? After all, you may need to resurface and reuse them for your kitchen, or you may want to sell them or give them away. And you don’t want to sell or gift someone smashed up cabinets.<\/p>\n

When to Demo Your Cabinets<\/h2>\n

There are times when meticulously removing your cabinets from the wall isn’t necessary, however. In these instances, unleashing your inner beast by taking a sledgehammer and tearing into your cabinets may be a good idea. This is usually during an interior demolition. If you are doing a gut job in your kitchen and have no intentions of salvaging anything, this is the best time to smash away. Just be careful. Flying debris can be dangerous to you and your demo partner.<\/p>\n

You don’t necessarily have to solicit the help of experts to do the demolition, either. However, if you are not sure of what you are doing, then it would be best to let the experts handle it. Then, of course, you can always ask them to let you beat up the cabinet with the sledgehammer if you still want to get your thrills. If you have an idea of what you should do, then go for it. Just be sure that there are no live wires or plumbing intact before you begin destroying your cabinets.<\/p>\n

One thing you want to start with is getting appropriate dumpsters for your demolition. If you are demoing a kitchen, renting an ordinary dumpster for your cabinet debris may be all you need. However, if you have lead pipes, you may not be able to toss those in a dumpster. This may have to be hauled away or taken to a particular dumping area since it is hazardous.<\/p>\n

If you don’t have to worry about damaging walls or floors and things because they will all, be replaced with new drywall and flooring, this is where all the fun begins! First, make sure you have proper ventilation in the area, so you won’t have to breathe in dust. Then, get your pry bar and sledgehammer and have fun! Start by removing the lower cabinets from the wall with a pry bar, and have fun beating those ugly, old-fashioned cabinets up with your sledgehammer. You can also\u00a0beat up your countertops<\/a>\u00a0with the sledgehammer to get rid of them.<\/p>\n

Be careful with the upper cabinets because you don’t want to pry them from the wall and have them stub your toes or cause other injuries. It’s best to have a crew helping you so that they can help safely remove the upper cabinets. Then once, they are down, you can smash them, too!<\/p>\n

Another More Civilized Way to Remove Kitchen Cabinets<\/h2>\n

If you are not the type to unleash your inner Tarzan and you want a much slower, organized approach to removing kitchen cabinets<\/a>, then you will need to put the prybar and the sledgehammer away. This method is also helpful if you want to refurbish, sell, or give away cabinets and if you’re going to preserve the walls behind your cabinets so you can put up new ones.<\/p>\n

Before getting started, it’s best to gather all the tools you need for the project. There’s nothing more frustrating than getting started with a project and not having all the tools you need and having to go out to a big box store to buy it. Good luck with that because it will be even more frustrating if you go to a big box store and find out that they don’t stock the tool you need, so you must order it. But for this project, the\u00a0tools required<\/a>\u00a0may already be in your toolbox or should be relatively simple to acquire.<\/p>\n

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