Cabinet Hardware Installation

Series Summary

Home improvement and repair is some of the most rewarding and frustrating work homeowners can tackle. Whether it's building a new deck, installing drywall, laying tile or just changing out old shelf paper, home repair and maintenance projects can be done successfully with the right tools and the right knowledge. The key to making a task relatively hassle-free is a tactic that has worked for ages: divide and conquer. With step-by-step instructions and a few professional tips, getting things fixed up over the weekend can be easy. In this free video series, a home repair specialist demonstrates how to do construction and remodeling on a home's floors, kitchen, windows and more. Discover how to use a band saw, how to repair leaking kitchen faucets and how to measure a floor for tiling. Find out how to choose crown molding, purchase carpet and install electrical outlets as well. Keep a house looking great with these home construction tips.

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Tim Gipson and I'm going to talk to you about cabinet hardware installation. Now one of the things that's an easy way to update the look or clean up the look of your kitchen after you've been in it a while is to change the hardware. Now this particular cabinets have these brass knobs but if you know if we wanted to change the look and go with say a brushed nickel or antique look, it's very easy. These simply twist off. They are held in with a screw here and single hole. Now in a the case we wanted to go with a different type of handle say as a three inch handle, we can simply use this hole re-index off that with the dimension of the regular handle drill another hole and in the same way we would just screw these back on. So as far as removing and installing cabinet hardware there's really not a whole lot to it. It's very easy to replace existing hardware or to locate and drill new hardware in to your cabinets. So I'm Tim Gipson with some information on installing cabinet hardware."