The standard clearance is about 69 off of the floor to the bottom of the upper cabinet that is over the stove top.
Cutting kitchen cabinets to fit microwave.
Use a cordless gun to remove the hinges from.
He needed this to see how our new micro could fit.
If you surgically remove and shorten the bottom.
Make the cabinet over the stove shorter.
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.
It sounds tough and a bit crazy but it worked fine.
Select a location where you will be able to run wiring if you don t already have an electrical.
Remove any doors that cover the spot where you wish to cut the opening.
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.
It s possible to shorten a hood cabinet so an over the stove microwave will fit.
These babies are never cute but they have dual functions and in a small.
How to cut a cabinet for over the range microwave step 1.
My husband is a photographer and very visual.
Many of the older style kitchens were not built to accommodate a microwave over the range.