Remove any doors that cover the spot where you wish to cut the opening.
Cutting kitchen cabinets to fit microwave.
He needed this to see how our new micro could fit.
How to cut a cabinet for over the range microwave step 1.
Select a location where you will be able to run wiring if you don t already have an electrical.
If you surgically remove and shorten the bottom.
How to cut a microwave opening in cabinetry 1.
We have a grey yes elephant grey hood fan that vents back into to the kitchen for goodness sake and a cabinet to take out and he could not visualize how the new bigger microwave could fit it we took out the cabinet.
These babies are never cute but they have dual functions and in a small.
It sounds tough and a bit crazy but it worked fine.
It s possible to shorten a hood cabinet so an over the stove microwave will fit.
The standard clearance is about 69 off of the floor to the bottom of the upper cabinet that is over the stove top.
Many of the older style kitchens were not built to accommodate a microwave over the range.
Choose an over the range microwave.
I work at a cabinet shop and it seems once a month someone buys a new refrigerator and its bigger than the old one so they need to replace the old cabinet ab.
Make the cabinet over the stove shorter.