HOW TO BUILD NEW CABINETS in UNDER 3 MINUTES!
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Hey Gang! Man are we excited to be back. You know we hate taking long breaks, let's get back into it. We've posted a few videos on our channel regarding RTA cabinets, but this one is different. We're always looking for ways to do things so they're better and faster and this method of assembling cabinets is the way we're going to do it moving forward, and we can't see changing any time soon. Using 3/4" staples to fasten these things together is better in every way shape and form, and with only 3 tools, anyone can order themselves some RTAs and transform their kitchen (or anywhere that needs a cabinet face lift) Thank you so much for all the support on the channel and Happy New Year!!
These cabinets are from quavana.com our regional distributor in Houston
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Hey Gang, the one thing we didnt mention is where we get our cabinets! Now if we tell you, you have to promise you won’t clean them out😂
We use Quavana.com
Tell em SP sent you 👊🏼
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Any idea about the cost per running foot for base cabinets? I would assume upper wall cabinets would be a little less? Thanks for the link. I know exactly where they are in Houston. Be real easy for me to go up there and pick them up when ready. Ken S.
Thank you so much guys. Have a blessed New Year!
I really do love the Chanel since I found it I would love to see how you and your dad would build a giant snake cage my state requires glass doors but due to kids In the home I’m afraid of glass sliding doors
I was excited before I learned that they're MDF.
Shortly after getting married and buying our first house, I fixed some minor thing while she was watching. She commented “wow, you’re kind of handy!” And it was over from there. Been doing all the projects since then, so I appreciate all of your content to help me do better!
Hey Stud Pack Studs! Me and my boys do simular work as GCs on the West Coast and I make them watch all your videos! Your problem solving in real time is priceless! Keep up the amazing work!
Thanks T Mc and hey to the boys! 👊
Tip, when installing RTA cabinets I put a piece of foam board down to build them on with less chance of scratching the finish, and glue just pops off leaving it a clean surface. Keep up the great content guys.
I just set up a table and use the cardboard the boxes come w :) but yea I was looking for this comment!
Being a fan of this channel is dangerous for an electrician like me. With all your tips I might finally try to tackle all of my home remodels myself!!! 🤣 Another great video guys, keep em coming!
Thank you Paul. ive had my whole kitchen cabinetry sitting in my van for over a week. I finally cleaned the kitchen and had my boys bring all 14 boxes in. Now its been a lil under a week in my kitchen waiting for me to call my contractor to come build them. I kept telling myself why can I not build them myself and now I believe i can. You just gave me hope!
I worked a large cabinet manufacturer for 12 years. This is very similar to the way we assembled them. The only exceptions being we had large hot melt guns for gluing. Also we ran the crown staple guns parallel to the sides fully shooting the side before we dropped the top and bottoms. Very quick method. On our assembly lines full cabinets were assembled and boxed in about a minute. Good job guys!
I am in the cabinet business. The problem that I have noticed with the hot melt is that eventually it lets go under load. I have had people call me to come and fix their cabinets (not from us) where the manufacturer used a hot melt connection from side panel to face frame. Funny enough, the way I fix their cabinets is to use some metal clips from RTA cabinets to reattach the side panel to the face frame.
@@stevenrwh you are exactly right. Generally speaking each side panel had about 20 staples shot in the so it wasn’t a huge problem. But through the years we changed glue manufactures and formulas several times. Often the problem lies in the temp of the glue being to low in the reservoir or line before application. As you said the clips are definitely the fix. I imagine you are great at your craft. Glad to meet you hear!
Nice! A narrow crown stapler is an under rated tool. I use one regularly for upholstery purposes and woodworking. Great lesson on saving time and still accomplishing the mission.
No doubt, I finally bought an air brad nailer and it changed wood working. Being able to put a bead of glue, punch 6 brads and move on instead of clamping and letting it set over night really is a time saver.
So timely! I was just discussing RTA for my rental and talking with the contractor about how much time they take to assemble! This is my new plan! Thanks!
Oh yeah, that makes a lot of sense (heavy sarcasm). And once you've paid your contractor, he's gone. As a property owner, do you want to have to replace broken cabinets every few years or make them last as long as possible?
@@rla1000 Many RTA shops will assemble them for like 30/ea
thank you for posting this. I am about to put together 30 cabinets for my kitchen. You saved me a ton of time. This is a great video.
A few years ago I did an entire 10x10 kitchen with these same RTA cabinets, I wanted solid wood and preassembled cabinets were way expensive. I used wood glue and all the brackets and screws, I recall that yes it was time-consuming but I enjoyed it, I felt like I was actually building something. These cabinets turned out rock solid and beautiful.
A key assembly point is you start with the face frame on the bottom. This turns the face frame into an assembly jig. If you ever go custom make the face frame first then cut and assemble parts and attach to the face frame. Much better than box first followed by face frame fitting.
Happy New Year! A subsequent video on setting the RTA cabinets in the kitchen would be helpful for folks.
2021 has been pretty good to you guys with an increase of aprox. 150,000 subs!! I predict that 2022 will be an even better year. Keep up the great work Paul and Jordan, keep the faith, and be well.
It’s great to see a father/son business like this. Y’all are super talented. We need more father/son businesses in our country. Keep it up guys.
Great demo. I like the extra staples at the end, even realizing that it's the joint and construction glue providing the structural strength.
I believe in overbuilding when convenient and adding little cost. I especially like that the cabinets have no 1/8" panels.
I've had to add mounting cleats to badly designed cabinets with a 1/8" (3/16"?) back panel.
Mr. Paul, I came across y’all channel a few weeks back, and just want to thank you for the many lessons and tips you’ve provided me during several backlogged renovations. These cabinets look like a real quality timesaver!
I felt compelled to come back and leave a reply after watching your video. I am currently doing base and wall cabinets from RTA (ordered directly from the RTA website) and have a large 10x17 kitchen. The first four I assembled were wall cabinets and took forever with the fiddly little brackets and teensy screws. Carpal tunnel in the making and sooooo time consuming! After this, they will be coming apart, glued and reassembled with crown staples. I cannot think of words that would be appropriate to thank you. I bought a Porter-Cable 18ga stapler and a gallon of Tite Bond glue and it makes assembly FAST and far more rigid. These are cabinets I would trust hanging on the wall now. The glue and staple method turns an hour job into 20 minutes. That will add up to $$$ in your pocket if you're installing 23 cabinets like I am.
Installed some RTA cabinets in my master closet. Took about 10 minutes each to assemble. Very well made and very sturdy.
Love your channel. I do maintenance on the equipment at a major cabinet manufacture company that makes cabinets for the orange and blue big box stores. This is exactly how they assemble them except they use a clamping machine that holds the sides in place while they staple the sides to the face frame. Next station on the line slides on the top and bottom then staples them in place and then the next station uses hot glue and brads to attach the back. You are definitely on the right track and doing everything in an acceptable manner.
I like your videos and like that you and your son get along so well. I lost my dad when I was only 3 so i appreciate that aspect.dios te bendiga hermano.
Was watching you tube TV and ran across your 3 way switch video,with that mess that you fixed you impressed me and now I'm hooked, I'm also a all trade type person (I got an non expiring roofers card)..lol..
STUD PACK!!! This video Is AWESOME!
My Dad and myself buy rental homes and rehab them completely. Your videos have not only given us many hacks and tricks but it has allowed us to speed up the process on getting the job done!
I would love to see you use the staple gun and liquid nail to put together a few base cabinet so we can feel more confident in getting them together quick and correctly!
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO!
IT IS VERY INSPIRING!
Hey boys. Your videos always leave me wanting more. I’m working my way through the old ones. Love the channel
😂 I enjoy watching you guys working together! Love the father and son connection between the two of you, may God give you both many years of great memories and success! God bless you! 👊👍
Manufacturers put them together with staples and some no adhesive. A cabinet of ours failed at the face frame and the entire cabinet came off the wall except the back panel, of course. I do it your way; glue and staple. It's much better than those brackets.
Thanks for making this video as I previously stated below. I'm 22 "boxes" in to assembling all plywood RTA's. Regardless of the "brand name" on the sale, all my boxes were either from Vietnam or Malaysia. These are a quality product, excellent fits. Built the first using your method and found out the plywood was very brittle for toe-nailing with a brad gun. I opted to use polyurethane glue for the cabinet front to wood connection, and titebond 2 and 3 for all other wood to wood joints. Some 90 degree brad shots helped stabilize some joints, otherwise the glue and clamp method got the best results for me. I noticed there is a huge difference in construction methods per manufacturer, mostly how joints are reinforced. Fortunately, my first experience is with all metal corner and joint reinforcement brackets, far superior to plastic. Stud Pack, thanks for the video, and thanks for reading this.
4:58 OK, THANK YOU SO MUCH FIR THIS TIP👍🏻👍🏻
I normally stay away from RTA b/c every time you get them, they are assembled a completely different way; so it’s just annoying. Also hate that glue squeeze out and seeing it if not careful, BUT THIS GOLD NUGGET is BRILLIANT, and would work pretty much for any style of assembling methods, GENIOUS YOU ARE👍🏻
🙏🏼Cheers🙏🏼
Wife and I just put together and installed 12 base and upper cabinets (first time, BTW). Something that's just as important is to make sure all the edges line up correctly. Our cabinets were very, very similar to these with tons of little brackets, same dados, use glue, etc. and we found that one of our base cabinet sides was off just a little (too long - i.e. maybe the dado was off a little?), so when we went to level it, it was impossible. We ended up having to use a hand plane to shave it down during install... So long story short, make sure you check that all four sides of your base cabinets are flush at the top where the counter top will sit and adjust if possible at assembly. The bottom really doesn't matter because your gonna shim it anyway.
BTW... wish I had seen this video before we built ours. Good videos are hard to find. We ended up randomly finding some at Jarlin Cabinetry You Tube channel (not who we bought our cabinets from). They show all the steps including the brackets being installed. After seeing this video, I probably would have done some of it differently.
Those clips can get in the way of shelf placement as well, unless you're trimming corners off. Great video, gents! Have a Happy New Year! Looking forward to more content.
We've trimmed many shelves 🪚
my fav DYI channel on youtube or anywhere else.
Great idea. This is exactly how I did my first rta build.
I’m a woodworker and a UA-cam fanatic. I tend to follow many makers and always interested in subscribers. I stumbled into your channel from the floating bed for Jordan and have been watching ever since. Not that long ago you were under 100K and remember when you hit it. Wasn’t that only a couple months ago? I see you are almost at 200K. Love your videos and you guys do a great job. Hope my son picks up my passion for woodworking and we can do our own thing when he gets older. Happy New Year and looking forward to 2022 with you two.
Thx Peter 👍👊
I've used Cabinotch RTA cabinets for a few projects in my house and they assemble super quick with no screws. They have a sliding T joint, pretty clever and very fast to assemble. They have high quality hardware and drawers. Good stuff.
I just went to their web site, a truly awful, cumbersome site. I could not even determine what cabinet door styles they sell, the first thing most potential buyers want to see.
@@Alex.smiffy It looks like they sell just the boxes. You provide your own doors/ drawer fronts. (And finishes)
@@wjthehomebuilder Thanks, an odd business model. I am not opposed to finishing my own cabinets but I would rather buy them complete from one seller.
@@Alex.smiffy The way cabinotch will typically work for a professional shop is you design your struff on KCD software and they build it, to any size and what not. They don't make doors, but you can order them from the app from door/drawer front maker. I was doing several large cabinet installs in my own house so I just rented the software and ordered it that way. They can also design for you. There are other RTA type companies out there as well for sure, cabinotch just had a pretty neat system I found easy to deal with. Good luck!
@@realpdm Thanks, I got the name of the RTA in this video, they do the whole thing. The other would be overly complex for me considering my kitchen is only 16 ft long.
happy new year and hope this year brings happness and joy all the days to you and your family
I'd take 5 minutes and put glue in all the dados, but maybe that's overkill... when I saw the dados I immediately thought "glue and brad nailer!" because that's the way we'd do it if we were building them from scratch.
I definitely thought that he was going to use a brad nailer.
I definitely thought he was going to use glue🤷
Exactly!
I use a Spotnail corrugated nailer and nail the front & back datos from the inside…
-You should be able to nail the back with your staples also
Best funniest but informative video i've ever seen! Made my week!
Looking good!!! I've put countless amounts of IKEA furniture together and am always amazed how adding simple wood glue adds 1000% more rigidity to the whole thing.
Fantastic! Wish I’d thought of this, I just did a bunch of these and went crazy with all the clips! Great vid, Thx!
I just found you on U-tube. I love your energy, professional skill sets & training videos. I hope you lived in Miami so l could hire you. I'm a female & dont have any of your tools or skills.
man that was a huge lesson... nice job ladies!!!!
Greetings from The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg! Happy New Year 2022! You guys ROCK! 💯
You can staple the back where the two panels crest an L also. That way you don’t have to worry about ever seeing a staple at all.
Excellent video! Thanks for the info!
Kind of similar how I mentioned in another video. Use a pin gun from the carcass into the face instead of Staples(way faster to run a line of pins). Instead of brackets, staple the carcass together. I staple and only use brackets in places that are never visible. I've seen this done in less than 20 seconds by guys who do this day in and day out. Good video.
Brilliant! You guys saved my weekend!
I have been buying Lily Ann cabinets for a few years. They use dovetail assembly and make a really strong box with mostly just glue and a rubber mallet.
Your years of experience are showing in this one. I was going to order custom cabinets for my kitchen remodel but now feel emboldened by this demonstration. And, I need an excuse to buy that new, battery, nailer.🤣
Nicely done! And those clips aren't even as ugly as some of the clips out there!
That's really great..... if your goal is making sure that the cabinets are no longer covered by any kind of warranty. And BTW: That's not maple. It's birch.
Good old fashioned Craftsman garage door behind you. Replaced my Craftsman door recently!
Awesome! Just wish I watched this sooner. Like, before the million screws I sank!
I shoot staples along the side panel into the back panel like you mentioned at the end of the video. I also cut diagonal blocks out of poplar or maple and fasten them from the back side into the back of the face frame and into the side panel.
Great video great way to start off the year GOD BLESS YOU ALL
Really like the nailer & only critical screws needed. 👍🏻👍🏻 Sure beats the pins, clips, dowels, etc that take so long.
Typically use continuous beads of clear silicone to put cabinets together anyway, to completely seal and spill-proof all the joints, so will keep doing that.
(Not much difference of cost, & creepy crawlies abound in Florida... so it's 2 "saleable" layers of peace-of-mind for customers.)
Happy new year
Hell yeah! This would have saved me tons of time in the past.
Happy Holidays gang!!! I install IKEA kitchens and their system is pretty slick too!
Like button glued and stapled.
HAPPY NEW YEAR STUD PAK
Another video I wish I'd seen before I built my cabinets lol
For cabinet for the gluing part I would use loctite 3x or 8x. if you use one of those two I'll guarantee you it will never come apart.
Great video. You can angle the staple gun parallel to the face frame so that one side of the staple hits the side panel and one side hits the face and save the headache of going from the bottom like that.
Gran Video Muchachos .. Feliz New Year .. (Spanglish) ..
I am about to install an rta kitchen and this video really got me excited to get started! Great info.
Happy New Year to you, too! Thanks for the vid. I love finding better ways to assemble factory made stuff. Builders always know better than designers. I’ve assembled lots of office furniture, another way they describe that flat-shipped stuff is “K.D.”, meaning “knock-down”.
Hey Paul, this is Kam with Routt Constructon, Panama City fl. We are a direct distributor for matrix cabinets. We would love to bid your next shipment. Great prices, great quality, and we can ship anywhere in the lower 48. Also ours are much easier to assemble than what you have there. Keep us in mind!
You guys are a great team and full of good ideas and integrity! Thanks so much for sharing! 👍👍👍
Great tip as always
I just have to say, I am the people whose game is over. I npw think I can renovate my kitchen. Thanks!
Hey mounting Dior hardware is the real work.
Great demonstration! Not sure if you are familiar, but there is a brand of RTA cabinets that have the same robust materials but they come preinstalled with a male to female clip that securely holds the parts together, and only require a few taps from a rubber mallet to seat the clips and one screw through the center to hold everything securely in place.
They are constructed exactly like the ones in the video except they have the preinstalled female clips on the sides, and have the male ends on the front and back panels. They even have the dadoes cut to ensure that they fit together properly. On average they take about 5 to 10 minutes to build a standard size wall cabinet (24 x 36).
I really enjoy you're energy and love for what you do.
Your passion is is appreciated and respected.
Happy New Year to you and your family.
Thank You
You guys are great!!!!!!
For assembly try titebond quick and thick, much less runny then standard tight bond and unlike the liquid nails it's still water clean up. If you spend extra time on assembly, you will get a much better product.
Where I live , we call these 'knock-down" cabinets. With the right technique, even the the cheapest version will do the trick on most non-custom applications.
this is a great tip,il be using it when i renovate the kitchen here,thx Paul.
Definitely a good way to go. I would suggest getting a hot glue gun with glue for cabinets instead of construction adhesive and glue up the back panel as well. 23g or 18g nails could be used to tack the back as the holes are easily hidden with a wax hole filler crayon.
Construction adhesive is much much stronger after it cures. Also, if you used 1/2" or maybe 3/8" staples and went at an angle from the back to the sides the staples would be hidden in the back. Same thing if you go from the top or bottom.
My son bought $18,000 of cabinets, and there was hot glue in some joints, more than half the time that hot glue was falling off. May stick initially, but no good for long term.
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Wow!!!
Congratulations 😁
Glad your vid showed up in my suggested vids-UA-cam unsubscribed me from your channel! You basically assembled it the way to do at the factory-on site. I might do this for my own kitchen.
These guys are awesome. I once assembled a whole kitchen's worth of RTA cabinets mostly by myself and it took me a month doing it on weekends. Using this method I might be able to assemble them in a day or two with some help.
I recently reluctantly used cabinets to go. I was in for the shock of my career and I must say some of the best cabinets I ever installed. They did not use brackets they use cam locks with a high level of precision. These cabinets came with the doors prehung and they were all in perfect alignment. So the wall cabinets had zero screws and the base cabinets only had screws for drawer slides and corner brackets. Cabinets to go certainly made a believer out of me and like you said not a speck of particle board.
Very nice tip guys... ❤ from Scotland
Sorry Paul I was ahead of you on the staples. Happy and Money 💰 🤑 💸 Making New Year.
Just decided how I'm doing my cabinets for the rehab! Thanks for the tips and the recommendation! Happy New Year, guys!
Cabinet doors? Tool prep? Unboxing? Setup? Plus everything you added after? 30 min total?
Glad you guys enjoyed your holidays and glad you are feeling better.
Another good video!
Hello Guys!! I hope you had a great trip to see family. Another great video from Studpack!! Keep up the good work!!
This is good idea,, just add few nails on the side panels to the back and it will be Mitch stronger
Takes more time to get the materials out of the box and dispose of the packing to assemble a wall cabinet. I’ve done a few dozen homes in 3 years in SW FL. Easy peasy
Thanks for your tips and expertise and willingness to share them. God bless you both in this new year.
Not too bad. But you should have glue where the back goes into the sides. RTA cabinets are not all the same. These are not all that bad except as noted.
As a cabinet maker we use dados not plows to connect the top and bottoms to the sides. We also glue the back into the sides. We add splines in the dado joints to connect the frame to the sides. All of that is done with wood glue. Construction adhesive tends to crack and come apart over time. Your entire cabinet is held together by dabs of construction adheasive and 2 plastic clips. Those clips get brittle over time and break. I'll give them 2 to 3 years before they start to come apart and loose from the walls. Twice the time to use lots of wood glue is well worth is well worth the three extra min.
For a kitchen, or any modern furniture for that matter, I'd bet my money on screws and a proper polyurethane construction adhesive like Lepage/Loctite (Henkel) PL Premium. Especially in the case of assembling stuff from boxes. Wood glue is not structural, it creeps and most formulations are brittle and definitely not gap filling. PL Premium is a proven structural adhesive and it resists moisture. Cabinets are structural but almost never treated as such.
I was thinking that wood glue would be a better option than liquid nails. Do you just use a Titebond or similar?
@@johntherat339 We use tight bond II.
@@rolfbjorn9937 wood glue penatrates the wood fibers for better grip. If the pieces are cut correctly you should not need gap filling. This is far better raw wood to raw wood. Dovetail slots, wood glue and splines with nails beats just about anything out there.
Happy Healthy New Year's !!!!!!!
Happy New Year you Guys, Ready to watch more of your stuff this year. Ray
Awesome, wish I'd seen this years ago!
Happy new year gang !!!!!
We are remodeling our kitchen in a second home. I have planned all the cabinet sizes and planned to build them from scratch (I have done so three times in the past) but I may consider using these types of cabinets if wood prices keep going up. While watching you, I thought the time saved in construction, sanding, and painting may be OK for our next remodel. Thanks for letting us know where you picked them up. I am not typically a big fan of premade cabinets but the price of birch ply is getting nuts in our area.
HAPPY NEW YEAR. STUD PACK. LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!
You guys ROCK !
Thanks!
Wulfy
Always a blast!
Love your show.
Happy New Year!
hUgz, Lee