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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Laying out new kitchen, one wall is not exactly at 3" for cabinets

Posted: 9/29/2011 1:34:01 PM EDT

I'm building a kitchen with an L shaped cabinet/countertop layout. The short leg of the L calls for cabinets to run wall to wall. Unfortunately, my dimension is 5/8" over a 3" increment. I'm using premade, prestained cabinets.

The builder (myself) fucked up while putting this kitchen addition on by being off 5/8ths. No drywall is up, so I could fur it out, but I'd rather not. Do I have any other options? Have a 5/16" gap on each side of the stove?

ETA: There are windows on each wall I could fur....if I do that, I'd botch them up.

Posted: 9/29/2011 1:41:24 PM EDT

[#1]

It will not matter.

Just put the cabinets in and move on.

Posted: 9/29/2011 2:19:56 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
It will not matter.

Just put the cabinets in and move on.

This. You are the only one who will ever notice.

Posted: 9/29/2011 5:56:21 PM EDT

[#3]

Leave 30 1/8 for the range,the rest can be covered with scribe mold or a filler strip.

Posted: 9/29/2011 7:30:47 PM EDT

[#4]

yep, scribe and keep goin

Posted: 9/30/2011 10:56:23 AM EDT

[#5]

Im ADD and need pictures to see what your talking about but 5/16th gap on either side of the range? Fugettaboutit!
I think ours has 1/4 or so.

Posted: 9/30/2011 12:37:27 PM EDT

[#6]

5/8" is nothing

Posted: 9/30/2011 12:52:01 PM EDT

[#7]

I would bet that you are actually tighter than you think.

Drywall is not flat after it is finished.

Posted: 9/30/2011 4:20:17 PM EDT

[#8]

If you knew how often cabinet installers were 5/8" off, much less framers, you'd have never asked this question.

Move on and sleep well.

Posted: 10/2/2011 11:05:19 AM EDT

[#9]

OK, guess I shouldn't be losing sleep over this one.

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Laying out new kitchen, one wall is not exactly at 3" for cabinets

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