Kitchen cabinets and materials

To be verified whilst kitchen cupboard installation is underway

• Check the condition of the kitchen cupboards upon delivery.
• Check that the color of the cupboards is the color you selected.
• The caissons must comply with the cupboard plan and be fixed firmly.
• The upper caissons are generally aligned centered with the windows
• The areas in which you have chosen to install apparatus must be suitable.
• Countertops must be supported by caissons and fixed firmly
• Toe-kick boards must take into account the floor finishing.
• Doors must be adjusted precisely and esthetically.
• Felt must be installed on each door and each drawer.
• The type of handle and the way in which the door opens must comply with the contract.
• A latex silicon joint must run from the walls to the countertop, and from the caissons to the walls.
• Check the cupboard types, color and features. Make sure that you have received all items ordered and that they are in the right places.
• The finishing and functioning of the cupboards must meet the standard you expect from your supplier.
• Check that your installer has left the kitchen cupboards clean when he has finished.

To include in the contract

• Kitchen and bathroom cupboard plans 
• Plot out the locations of the cupboards (on the construction site)
• Kitchen cupboards
• Bathroom vanity unit
• Countertops
• Hardware
• Accessories
• Installation

Practical tips

Mark out or have marked out as precisely as possible on the ground where the cupboards are to be installed. The electrician, the plumber and the tinsmith can all make use of this additional information.
The representative must take into account where certain accessories are going to be located, such as the oven ventilator, windows, wall dimensions, plumbing already carried out, as per the work plan.
It is very important that you measure the cupboards together with the representative to work out certain things on-site, such as the dimensions of electrical appliances. This ensures that adequate space will be planned for your appliances and the cupboards will be built accordingly.
Keep the kitchen clean to ensure that the markings on the ground can be easily viewed.
Inspect the cupboards carefully together with the installer, because once the work is finished he can no longer be held responsible for any grooves and breakages which may have occurred. Countertops are very fragile.