How To Remove Soffits Above Kitchen Cabinets
The Home Mender shows us how to remove kitchen cabinets a kitchen soffit from a ceiling install new drywall and apply new tape and mud.
How to remove soffits above kitchen cabinets. If it is full of pipes or duct work the difficulty. Cabinet soffits can make a kitchen feel cramped and removing it is a relatively easy project. Soffits over kitchen cabinets or over a bathtub or shower were very popular in the 70s 80s and 90s but today most people just want them gone.
Removing a soffit may cause cabinet damage or necessitate replacing them entirely. Remove crown molding and other decorative pieces. Crown molding on kitchen wall cabinets dresses up your kitchen with ease.
Next youll want to remove the cabinets. Then paint the entire soffit including the new trim to give the illusion of one piece of molding. In fact youll acceptable be hard-pressed to acquisition a baby buffet anywhere in the house.
Your cabinet design and layout depends o. Even if a soffit can be removed without disturbing ducts pipes or wiring any cabinetry touching the soffit will need to be at least temporarily removed. If youre really lucky it.
Knock a hole the size of a basketball into the end of the soffit. Cabinets and cupboards are about over-sized generally extensive to the so-high ceilings. Mark the locations of the exhaust pipes the wires or the plumbing pipes within the soffit to avoid damaging them as you remove the soffit above the kitchen cabinet.
Just how big depends on what is lurking behind the soffits. A nail gun an electric miter saw some furring strips and several strips of crown molding are about all you need to do this project. If its empty there is little difficulty in removing it.