How To Install Ikea Fridge Panels With Crooked Walls

today I'm going to show you how to install fridge panels for an IKEA kitchen system so in this scenario we're gonna teach you how to deal with out of plumb walls a lot of level floors things that are crooked and not straight and true because of course anything that's perfectly level and plumb and square is easy to deal with you just cut it on a table saw and away you go but this scenario is a little bit different so we're gonna just show you how does how to start what to look for what to be aware of and some techniques on how to cut the panel's another thing I'll say before we get started is just quick I have another clip or a video on just the different IKEA panel sizes so if you're planning in a kitchen just use that as reference because then you can get familiar with the panels and know which sizes you can use in certain areas and how to manipulate and use the panels to customize the kitchens and don't forget to check out my full IKEA series where we install a kitchen start to finish so that's a five part series anyway let's get into it [Music] [Music] what we're gonna do right now we're gonna put a full Gable they call it a full pad all the way to the top there then there'll be a fridge cabinet above but we need to give that enough space for a 36-inch fridge they'll talk get into that a little bit and we're gonna keep it just nice and simple today and then there'll be another gable panel which helps support this cabinet above posess cabinets 2 feet deep ok so I will show you some tricks and stuff first off this level is ideal for situations like this it's an extendable stabile a level they're awesome we use it for everything from finishing to to framing to foundations but at the end of the day if you don't have one of these just rip a strip of plywood and use that as a straightedge cut it to the height that you need and then use a two-foot level or a four-foot level give you the same idea they'll show you why it's handy cuz I'm gonna put this up against the wall here near the top I can move that up a little bit so you can see if you pet if you look at the top and the bottom I'm touching above and below there's a gap in the middle but if you look at the level it's nice and it's nice and plumb so there's there's two ways I can do this and there's two ways to look at it depending on how picky you are if I want it to be really picky I would actually oversize this we're gonna use a 36 by 96 inch panel and oversize this by whatever the gap is so I'd measure essentially in this scenario right from the wall to the face of the cabinet plus 3/4 maybe a hair less okay then that would be oversized and then I would put the panel in place and I would scribe it to the wall and just basically contour it to fit tight to the wall okay so that's the more precision way takes more time it gives you a better result at the end now this way that we're going to do it this panel we're gonna do the easy route okay I talked to the guy I'm helping my buddy Tim he said you know what because we're doing tile backsplash on this side over here we're gonna hide the gap that's exposed right here right so you're gonna you can imagine this there's a paddle up here there's a little gap the tile on this side is gonna hide it and then where the fridge sits you'll see a gap but whoever pulls out their fridge the most of time you're looking at the floor cause it's so bloody dirty right so you're not gonna look at a little gap five years down the road or six months or whatever it is so that gap isn't gonna concern him he's okay with that it gets hidden over here we got a little different scenario we'll get into that when we get to it but at the end of the day we're coming into this trimmed so you won't see a bulge in the wall here either you'll see a gap on the inside where the fridge is not a big deal this is slightly out of plumb so I'll show you how we're gonna deal with that later but anyway because this is nice and plumb I'm not worried about it so then what I did is I'll just hold the level up there I actually just found a fancy I just hooked my tape in here and then I just measured to the front of the cabinet off of the level because that's where the panel's gonna sit and then I just add just under 3/4 of an inch so I come up with 25 and 3/8 now because I'm not scribing that I can just rip that on the table saw so that's what I'm gonna do I'll show you how to do that so one thing you want to do is get the panel's laid out and just assess them sometimes they get damaged on the corner so you have to be careful using and moving around all the panels so just try to move them minimal minimal amount because yeah you can damage the corners and stuff so what we've done is we've assessed this one Tim looks like he's moved it around a few times you can see some scuffs on this side right so yeah you just got to be careful in your handling them so what we've assessed this side well what I want to do now you can see them a little cardboard that I've put on my sturdy so I don't scratch the heck out of it so normally I don't use I would call this the inside of the panel but because as the sticker here but this side does look nicer so what I'm gonna end up doing is I'll put the nice side towards the tile or towards the basically the most exposed part this scuffed up sides gonna go on the inside where the fridge goes I'll show you how to measure this because if you have an oversized item on a table saw you I guess this one you might be able to set it to 25 and 3/8 but if you can't we do it the other way around and we flip it so you can cut it you cut the narrow side against the fence so let's just imagine I want the panel to go through the table saw like this you always want the good side up I want the fence here because it's too big my fence isn't bigger than 25 and 3/8 so what I've done is you measure 25 and 3/8 and you make your mark right and then when this is against the fence my blades gonna sit right here so when I measure I just got a measure to the other side of the blade the opposite side of what's typical when you're using the table saw you usually want to keep this side but this side want to get rid of anyway 10 and 5/8 is what I'm gonna set a table saw to so I'll just show you how to do that quick yeah so just make sure that I the 10 and 5/8 is to this side of the blade which it is so that's 10 and 5/8 so what I'm left with on the offcut is 25 and 3/8 one thing you can do to verify that you have the dimensions right and you didn't get flipped around in your head and with just switching the side of the blade to cut on is just line it up to the saw even start the saw and just do a little incision and if you cut your line off then you know you have the right dimension and you've done everything correctly it's just one way to kind of foolproof it and double check so the next step is to cut it to height now what I like to do is leave a factory finish along the bottom just in case they get water down there it won't absorb into the to the plywood or the particle board so I like to keep a factory if I can sometimes you don't have the option so I want to cut the top off so the panel's gonna sit just like this now I'm going to cut this with a skill saw so I'm gonna do good side down so just kind of flip up the proper way you just just so you know just be aware of those things so I'll cut the top off I'll have a cut edge on the top finished edge out front I've got it right the right way now let's figure out if the floor is on a level or not so what I've done here if I've just done a mock-up just in case you don't have a two foot level and you only have a torpedo just cut a straight edge of wood about the width of your gable then you just set your level on that use that as your straight edge now you can see I have to come up a little bit in the back so I guess at this point in time you again you decide how careful or how perfect you want it but let's just make a mark to see how much out of level it is or how far it's at a level I'll just mark the bottom of this and then all I have to do is just measure the distance from here to my pencil mark and that's how out of level we are so if that's up like this sometimes I got to think about these things so I'd measure from the floor to the upper the very top and then whatever this dimension is about 3/16 or quarter inch that's what I would take off of the front and I would cut yeah they would come off the front and taper towards the back so sometimes even just draw a picture to make sure you don't cut it the opposite direction and I guess at this stage I need to decipher which way I want to do this I've made my decision I'm actually going to do this a nice square cut leave the factory on the bottom but it'll show two scenarios because when we come over here I do have to taper cut it because you can't just leave a gap over here whereas here I get away with it again the fridge sitting against that you'll never see that gap so in this video you'll see both scenarios on how to how to determine the heights and lengths for each one so here I'm gonna verify that this is perfectly leveled in my pencil mark and if it is then what I'm going to do is I'll have to get some help or actually I'm just right now it's that's a quarter-inch cap so I'll just measure the total height at the back to the very top and I'll just take a quarter inch off and that'll be my total height of my panel because it's going to be sitting out here where I want it sitting and it's night like it's actually nice here I don't I don't want a gap out front it'll look like dog's breakfast so that's okay gap in the back is fine my mouth will work so that the measurements actually from here to the top of the upper cabinet if that makes sense right because here out to here with this being level is the same dimension I guess another way you can measure it if your do you want to get technical you do both ways you can always double-check things let's say ninety four and a quarter or I measure from there to the top - a corner and you can do it both ways so what that make sense it's even I'm getting confused little bit let's do this well like I said we're gonna cut this to ninety four and 3/16 I'm just gonna make my mark on both sides I'm gonna end up cutting this with a skill saw just to show you guys how to cut panels if you don't have the ultimate set up Tim's trying to build in the background so those are the marks that I want to cut it out now what's gonna end up happening is I'm gonna put a straight edge here on the side that I want to keep my blade is going to be over here but I have to figure out the distance from the blade to the edge of the fence and then I do a back set mark and I clamp down my level and then when I cut this it'll end up cutting that off so you just got to be able to visualize it so you know which way to measure it so if I do this now it has a safety I can't accidentally cut my fingers off so don't worry about that try not to look totally goofy so what I do is I like to just spin the blade like that and just measure and that's an inch and a quarter and that's the side of blade that I want to measure from so because I'm partially OCD inch-and-a-quarter I would probably just take the inch and a quarter off mathematically or you can just do it where you just hold it up or whatever six and a quarter and take it to the five now I like to just do those little marks and I like to just circle them so I know that I don't get confused between my clamp and Mike the part that I actually want to cut off I'm gonna measure back inch and a quarter that's my clamp mark all right next thing don't clamp it with the nachi in the middle that'll bugger you all up you just want to mark go like that if like I've done this so much that I'm comfortable just doing it right off the hop but just if you're unsure of yourself or your measurements or you saw just try a sample on a scrap piece of plywood make sure that you have the right offset whether it's an inch and 3/16 or an inch and a corridor get comfortable with your dimensioning before you start hacking into panels and I'm just gonna basically go just you can just barely see the line basically halfway on the pencil line alright so like I mentioned on the table-saw part you'll know right away when you cut into this if you're if you're right or you're wrong on your dimensions but I want the good side down because the circular saw cuts on the up motion and depending if this was a finished side back here I might want to pre tape everything if I was being like basically super anal I could pre-tape the whole thing then make my marks and then cut it so that way get less chipping but I think we're just gonna give it a go I'm used to using the IKEA systems and having the vinyl wrap panels and doors whereas this series is more like a stained wood and so there is more likely of chipping as you can see so that chipped away that's on the inside cut but like I said just tape that if you're concerned about chips and stuff we had to do a little adjustment so that no editing still applies but I just don't look as cool because it's not perfect this is real life this is how it is like if you don't buy extra panels then you're gonna have to either fudge sophomore go get under the new panel right we're a little bit short up top so you can see down there that we we just had to Shem it a little bit I don't think it's the end of the world most of the time you I would silicone that any way especially with water to a fridge because if I have a leak I want the leak to run outward so I noticed a leak right away so that'll probably get silicone I don't like doing it like I said we had to fudge it a little bit so or flush up top but let's actually see if it's plumb because that the level said plumb we did zero scribing and even a little torpedo showing not to you bad so this is a panel we're going to end up using space the exact same way a little off the floor screw it we're all good there but I do want to show you how to account and calculate if the wall is out of plumb which is very likely to have happened although we lucked out here with it being plumb and just a little crown in the wall I am just gonna show you how to do a taper cut with a skill saw because it's too hard to do on a table saw so here's the scenario you've put your level up you notice the walls out of plumb so what I suggest is just put your level into the plumb position so don't look at this let's just assume it's plumb and we have the gap at the top measure the gap what's the difference half an inch right so now we got to think about this I at least I have to I'm not that bright to determine the bottom dimension you can just measure off the wall to the face of the cabinet add three quarters or eleven sixteenths you don't want to be more than 3/4 past the front of the cabinet that way you cover your doors a little bit so you can measure off the bottom that's an easy dimension to calculate but because the wall is leaning like this and if you sometimes I have to draw a picture so I can visualize it the walls leaning like this so the top is going to be bigger so if we use the 25 and 3/8 that means the top has to be 25 and 7/8 1/2 inch bigger okay so let's use a different number so I can use a scenario let's just go 20 and 3/8 and 20 and 7/8 just so we can use it on my on the same panel there okay but all you have to realize is Kay the top is wider at the top so that out here the face of the game is plum but one thing you want to do before you get too crazy now because this is very close to 96 inches if you went on a full-length panel and did the taper based on 96 versus 94 and 3/16 I don't think it would change that much or would throw it out but if you let's say this is a weird example if you had a ten-foot panel and you only needed at 94 and you did your taper cut first before cutting the height if the taper would be off on the wrong angle and it wouldn't be plumb anymore so just make sure cut it to height first then do your caper cut hopefully that makes sense so yeah let's do the let's just do a little mock-up here all right so this one we want we want this side right this this is the bottom so let's just do 20 and 3/8 there this is the top we want 20 and 7/8 like that now if you don't have a nice long straight edge just cut a piece of paddle because that'll be straight that's what I did all right now remember that's the mark that we want to cut it we're gonna cut this with a skill saw same as when we cross cut the top so I won't go through that again I'm gonna measure back the inch and a quarter from each mark then well I would just simply clap this on I always want the clamps on the side I want to keep I shove this over and I cut it and that's how you do a taper cut essentially just with a straightedge a clamp and a skill saw good side down yeah sorry if I didn't mention but yeah you can see the gap along the bottom which we knew was gonna happen in the gap in the middle of the panel to which we predicted but yeah I'm just gonna go ahead and fasten this on [Music] so essentially what we're doing set the paddle put the upper cabinet in bring the other panel down there's a few things involved first thing is just don't slam the upper cabinet in just yet we have to leave some space for the fridge because we want to put a 36-inch fridge but you want some space on either side so I'll just draw you a little diagram you can kind of see how we've got started here but essentially I have two gable panels on my gable panel here and then I've put a short 20 inch high panel there then I'll have thirty six inches for the upper cabinet another panel and then the final gable so I'll actually have thirty seven and three-eighths of space in between for the fridge now this is easy because it's essentially panel cabinet panel Gable right like it's really easy there's no big spaces if you want to space out more than that you have to just get a little more creative with your filler panels oh and one last thing that I'm gonna do here before I start going into other options that are available I'm actually gonna I like to throw in a panel along the bottom here so what that does is I'll show you is it'll be flush with this and it'll be a gray panel whatever dimension I want it doesn't have to be full there's some people you know three or four inches from the top of the fridge to the underside here so you have an option you can build it down so it looks custom built in I've done that before or I'm just gonna slam a panel up on the underside here and I can go back this far or I can go back to the full length and it's just so I don't see the white underside of the cabinet there okay no having said that depending on which way you want to go the way this panel set up right now is if I don't do the panel on the underside doesn't matter because I have a finished edge there what I could have done I could have cut this narrow and then I could have even had this as a cot edge and then when I put this piece on it's all hidden so I don't I didn't need this full size panel but because I wanted to measure out the 36 inch across the back get my level line hang my rail on get my cabinet up all that kind of stuff I just thought it'd be easier for measuring and dimensioning to put this full-size on so I'm just trying to give you guys options and different scenarios on how to do this so anyway we'll just keep progressing here I've marked I've come over and I've marked the top of this architrave you can see I'm just gonna get my flush cut in my multi-tool oscillating device whatever you call them I'll just cut this down I'll pop this trim off and I'll rip that down later [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I've installed the upper cabinet as you can see were three quarters of an inch back like we're supposed to be now how we did that is quite simple I'm not getting into how to hang on the rail system that's in my other videos but essentially just make a nice level line measure 3/16 down and that's what the rail goes to it's in other videos this over here if you look I did have to fur it out three quarters of an inch but I don't want to get into the details I don't want to confuse you guys on this video we did make another video on what things you can manipulate other things you can't and because there's a corner out of square here and we moved it off the wall just so that the dishwasher had the 24 inches opening so that's why that got furred away but it didn't affect anything else so you have to be mindful of that now what I'm going to do is a habit clamp it's nice and flush across the whole top it's sitting nice and level once I screw this in then I can take all my dimensions and calculate and figure out what we need to do to this gable panel for cuts now this these are gonna be more precision cuts you're gonna want to stay tuned for that so let's get this nice and solid then we'll just keep moving on I've gone as far as I can before I need to start figuring out this panel I've put on this filler and all I did was just match this 3/4 of an inch overhang and I did the same here now I did the I left this as a cut piece on purpose just to show you what is capable or what you're capable of doing just make sure you leave that a little bit proud and at the end we'll just cap the underside here whatever dimension we feel like or whatever we have leftover and that'll make the underside look real nice so now with that everything as far as we can go we'll try to figure out this panel so it's very similar to the first one but what I need to do is I'm touching top and bottom but I'm slightly out of plumb so what I'll do is I have to actually take the top to the plumb position make sure the bottom still touching which is about let's say about a quarter-inch if you can see that I don't need to measure that and the reason why and I don't need to do a taper cut either what I'm gonna end up doing if you look down because the wall has such a bowl if the top has to come out it also means the bottom could go in and because it has such a Wow well what I'm gonna try to do is cut the panel from the measurement from the wall to the outside here I'll hold the panel up into position and then I'll scribe cut it and I'll just take off the bottom curve which should just pull the bottom in and make the front the front nice and plumb so that's what we're gonna do there so we'll start with that and then to get my bottom height now that the cabinets in place like I can get my height set to and am I depending on what I do I'll have to cut the height before I scribe it but it's now easy I can just measure from the cabinet right down to the floor so I'm bang on accurate and unfortunately the bottom piece will end up being cut it won't be as waterproof but you know if a guide lots of time you can just prime that or paint it but it'll end up getting silicone too anyway so anyway that's what we're gonna do let's just see how she goes what I wanted to do is just make sure that my app my cut was accurate I'm nice and flush right up here this isn't gonna change I'm proud right here but that's because the bottom still needs to get kicked in right to keep it plumb so that's all working according to plan next I'll calculate my height but one thing I don't want to forget to do is just put a little chunk of panel out the back there so that this doesn't tip in over time and the reason I had it out was just so that I could get the level in there the old plumb stick just so I could see what was going on there so yeah don't forget to put a panel at the back there this little nuggets in place now we can just measure the height what's nice about that is now I could just get it bang-on dimension wise so front ninety-three and fifteen now if I would have brought that panel up flush to the top it would have helped me but what was nice about this is I use just one dishwasher panel at twenty-five by 36 for all the spacing so I didn't waste any panels so I just got to get a straight edge so I can measure that 94 mmm 94 and 3/8 small so I flipped this and I figured out in my mind this is the bottom and obviously the gable front edge is my front so 93 and 15 at the front okay and then what I can do is I'll just go inch and a quarter back from there for my saw or my straightedge it's a 94 from 95 and a quarter and I'll just circle that 94 3/8 small okay and then I'll just back that off an inch and a quarter and because I want this one to turn out a little better I'm just gonna tape the cut line and I'm going to tape that bad boy all the way around so I just made my new mark on the masking tape just to make sure that my dimensioning is right cuz I only have one chance to do this cut [Music] yeah and just look out look at how much better that cut is just from that tape do the unedited drive fit again / - the back is exactly where I want it now the front is high now don't get stressed out yet because we still have to scribe it to the wall to make the front plumb which will bring this down this will stay flush all the time and as it moves in at the bottom it'll help this become flush as well so and then maybe let's just look at the floor and see guess we're off the floor at the front but as we take material off the back and move it in it'll drop down on the front as well so there's lots of fancy ways to scribe and you can get creative if you want I'm just gonna make sure this bad boy is up against the wall and it's close to my line I made a plumb line on the wall before I got too far ahead of myself so remember we were about a quarter inch out so I'm going to just start with the gap that's about a quarter inch yeah so I'll hit that with the jigsaw depending on which side I do what I might end up doing I might describe it on the inside so if I let's say I cut this with a jigsaw I'm gonna want a blade that cuts on the down stroke so it doesn't chip all of that off but what I'm going to do is I'll scribe it on the inside then I can use a blade that cuts on the upstroke and it won't chip the outside of my panel and if the insides chipped a little bit I'm less worried about that so let's try that on the inside and I have to keep in mind I'll be up against the trim over here so I'll take a little extra off of that line so I know that it'll fit nicely and in the inside like I said they'll be covered by the fridge this is a reverse type blade the teeth are pointed this direction which means they cut on the the downstroke so that's nor most jigsaw blades the teeth are the opposite and they cut on the upstroke so just just be aware of that so you know which direction to flip this will actually go good side up here and I'm going to just take the line off plus a little bit [Music] before I get ahead of myself I've just learned this from the past I'm gonna pre-drill some holes I'm gonna use a two inch screw I'll show you how to figure that out but what all I'm gonna do is I'm going to drill this so that it's just a hair bigger than the actual screw itself and I'll show you why in a sec but I'm just gonna pre-drill for spots that'll help me fasten the panel from the inside of the actual cabinet I'll show you how to figure out what length of screw might be a little tricky for you to see but if I just try to eyeball it flush with the inside you can see them about 1/8 inch shy of the old side panel so I know it's safe I can't sink it like a wild man but that's how you know simple little tricks so we've got that done and we'll just dry fit this and make sure the scribe works we're very close if you look here I've got a little gap down the center and it's tight at the bottom it could go in at the bottom a little more so I think I'm just gonna do third time's the charm that will allow this to come in a little more flush it'll bring that top down a hair and then after that I can just manipulate the cabinet up and just tweak it and clamp it to make everything flush the way I want it now good thing I checked this is pretty close to plumb in all reality if I take more off of the bottom it's gonna make it worse out of plumb and the other panel is dead on we can double-check that or just show you but just so you know this one ended up real nice so I'm going to basically I call that the happy medium I not perfectly plumb just to squeak off I can manipulate this to make it all flush so I'm going to just call that a good to go the pence Markel get hidden by trim yeah pretty simple I clamped and pin the top there this bottom was a hair proud so once that was screwed I was able to just push back on there clamp that flush just manipulate the cabinet a little bit use the screw gently you can see I didn't poke through which is nice now I can just finish off fascinating that gable panel so I'd cut this piece when we rip these panels or 36 by 96 remember that this is the cutoff strip so I didn't have to rip it again just had to cut it to length well then it worked this time a little persuasion here one thing you might have to do is just shim this with a piece of paper or something these side panels just protrude ever so slightly across this bottom panel so I might just throw a piece of cardboard or something in there and just make it so it's nice and straight but other than that screw that in it hides anything from the underside now it doesn't go right to the back but at least it just stops your eye from seeing the start white and just the bolts and stuff once the fridge is in there it gives it a nice clean look borders the doors a little bit and yeah I think you guys get the point I hope that video helped they give you lots of different scenarios different ways to cut the panels or figure it out so I think that is I think it's important because at the end of the day no house is perfect and especially if you're trying to work on a budget you're working on an older house you want to do it within reason and you're not going to be perfectly square and level and plumb so something like this I think is gonna help you guys so I hope it does you know shoot me a comment shoot me a like and subscribe to the channel and thanks for tuning in [Music]

Channel: Kody Horvey

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Id: RBrRFZ4486U

Length: 38min 49sec (2329 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 23 2019