It sounds tough and a bit crazy but it worked fine.
Cutting kitchen cabinets to fit microwave.
Choose an over the range microwave.
My husband is a photographer and very visual.
Make the cabinet over the stove shorter.
He needed this to see how our new micro could fit.
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.
How to cut a microwave opening in cabinetry 1.
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.
Use a cordless gun to remove the hinges from.
Select a location where you will be able to run wiring if you don t already have an electrical.
Due to the integrated installation of the cabinets certain moldings trim shelves or fillers can t be disturbed by removing the entire cabinet.
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.
Many of the older style kitchens were not built to accommodate a microwave over the range.
How to cut a cabinet for over the range microwave step 1.