Tools You Will Need To Upgrade Your Kitchen

By Gene Houston


For your kitchen redesigning project, you need to find the ideal tools for the kind of upgrading you will do. If you intend to do the whole kitchen, you will need tools for removing flooring and cabinets. Your first process is to get all things out of your kitchen, so you will need a hammer, a crowbar, a power screwdriver, and a saws-all at a minimum.

Most cabinets are generally held up by screws, and so the screwdriver is needed to get the cabinets out without doing too much damage to the walls. If you prefer to try to use the cabinets somewhere else, you will want to be careful getting them down. If you are just throwing them away, you don't need to be concerned with damaging the doors or hinges. When you have upper cabinets that need to be removed, you will likely need a step ladder. You will find it simpler to take the lower cabinets off first, and to do that you will need to get the appliances out-of-the-way, and remove the kitchen sink. If you are lacking a plumber, you will probably need pliers or wrenches to remove the sink and garbage disposal.

Before taking away the lower cabinets, you will also need to remove the countertops employing a saw to cut them into small pieces. Once the cabinets are all off, it will be easy to pull up the flooring, whether it is tile or linoleum. When you get this far, everything should be out of the kitchen so you can check out the walls and replace the sheet rock if needed. Maybe all you will need to carry out is repair all of the holes, and only re-texture the walls and ceiling.

Once that's completed, you can redo the electrical outlets and switches and repaint the walls and ceiling. Should you do this yourself, you should purchase painting and drywall supplies and electrical tools. You could possibly have these resources already if you have taken care of things in your home.

Once you have completed decorating, you can lay down new underlayment by nailing it down utilizing a hammer or nail gun or screwing down with a power screw driver. The same power screw driver may be used to hang the upper cabinets, as well as the lower cabinets. You have the possibility of installing the cabinets first or installing the flooring first then the cabinets. The the next step to undertake is to finish it off by installing the new countertops, drop in the new sink, hooking in place the drain-pipe, polishing off the base and consequently adding new appliances then you are ready. Several people already have the tools necessary to do the job and also the experience. For others, not only can it be a discovering experience, but a number of tools will need to be purchased.




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