Learn how to assemble a frameless wall butt door cabinet from start to finish. In this video, Justin from Cabinet Joint walks through the complete assembly process using the pre-drilled holes, dowels, screws, and hardware provided with the cabinet. While this video features a Wall Cabinet Butt Door (WCBD), the same basic assembly principles apply to other frameless wall cabinets.
Whether you’re a DIYer or a professional, these tips will help you achieve a clean, high-quality result. If you have questions, reach out to your Cabinet Coach or call us at 888-211-6482.
Video Transcript
Introduction
It's a glorious day here at Cabinet Joint. I'm Justin, and in today's video, I'm going to show you how to assemble a frameless wall butt door cabinet.
The same principles will apply for all of your wall cabinets. On the screen are the tools that you'll need for this assembly. Once you have those ready, we can get right into it.
Tools & Supplies
Assembly
To start things off, I will be taking the hinge connector, and I will be installing them on the cabinet side. Make sure you orient these correctly. You will want the arrow facing toward the opening of your cabinet. And then there should be two holes that are pre-drilled for you.
And then, lining that up with your two plastic plugs, you can install your connector onto your cabinet side. And then tighten those two screws. And then this will install your connector.
I'm going to do this for all four of my hinge connectors.
With those connectors in place, I can then take wood glue. I have Titebond II here, and put a little dab in each and every single one of the dowel holes. Then I'll also run a bead of glue down that groove. That will be for the back panel later on.
Then I can install the top of my cabinet, and I am then going to take the bottom of my cabinet and install that as well. Just lining up those dowels with the dowel holes and applying pressure to make sure it sinks in all the way.
Then I am going to run a bead of glue in that groove for both the bottom and the top pieces of the cabinet. This is once again for that back panel. And then I'm going to slide that back panel into place. Make sure it is fully in on both your cabinet bottom, top, and side.
Then I'm going to come to my other cabinet side and put a little dab of glue in each of those holes, as well as that back groove once again.
And then this next maneuver needs to be quick. Otherwise, you might get wood glue in your cabinet. But if you do, it's no big deal. You can clean that up later.
So, I have a little bit of glue in each of those holes. And then I'm going to flip this. And then, lining up the dowel holes, I just need to apply a little bit of pressure. I'm just doing some light pounding with my hand to knock everything into place.
Then, taking the 2" screws that will come with your cabinets, I'm going to attach the cabinet sides to the top and bottom. For this cabinet, it was two screws on both the top and bottom. You will see pre-drilled holes for these screws.
Then, I flipped the cabinet over, and I did the exact same thing on the other side, using those pre-drilled holes, installing then those 2" screws to connect everything together.
Now, moving on to the back of our cabinet, I'm going to take the back spreader strip and wedge it into place. This should be a nice, tight fit.
And taking the 1¼" pocket screws, I'm going to first install the strip onto the bottom of the cabinet. And then I will move along and install screws on either side.
What this does is give the cabinet a lot of rigidity, as well as kind of pinches that back panel into place.
Once I have all of those screwed in, I'm going to move to the top of my cabinet here and install the other strip that comes. Once again, it should be a nice, tight fit. So, if you have any issues, don't worry. You can just use a light little hand pound like I did here.
And I'm going to install all six pocket screws. Once again, make sure that those strips are tight against the back panel. You do not want them flush to the outside of your cabinet. What you want to do is have it pushed in all the way before you stick in those screws.
And then I'm going to move into the interior of our cabinet and just remove any wood glue that may have seeped into the interior. This is the time to do that before it dries. And you can do that just with a wet rag.
Moving on to our doors. These hinges are incredibly easy to install. You line up the hinge and the plugs with the pre-drilled holes, and then, pushing down on that latch, lock those hinges into place.
I'm going to do that on all four of these hinges, and then we are ready to install them in our cabinet.
You just line up the hook with the bar on those hinges and then apply pressure in the back, and then it'll click right into place. Super satisfying.
And now all of our hinges are installed, and our doors are almost ready. We just need to do some adjustments.
So, with these Blum hinges, there are six ways of adjustment. This first screw that you're seeing here will adjust it left and right in the opening. The middle screw will adjust it up and down in the opening. And then your back screw that you see here will adjust it further into the cabinet or further outside in the front of the cabinet.
The reveal you're looking for is a ¹⁄₁₆" on either side of the cabinet, ⅛" in between the doors, and then ⅛" on the top and the bottom of those cabinets.
And once you have it all adjusted, you are ready to put it in your kitchen. If you want to hold off to adjust those doors till they're installed, that is totally fine, too.
Outro
And that's all there is to assembling your frameless wall cabinet. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to your cabinet coach or call us at 888-211-6482.
Thank you for watching. Have a great day.
