Upper cabinets - how to?

[Spookies]

Hello all,

I want to make and install my custom upper cabinets, I have found couple of answers about this however does anyone have picture that I can see the actual work?

Thank you

[drboyd]

Here's some pictures of mine....

[David F]

Basically, the upper cabinets are a face frame and bottom panel with end panel(s) and divider panels. The cabinet is held in place with screws through the top rail of the face frame into the aluminum interior skin. The bottom of the cabinet has a continuous cleat (or in some cases aluminum curtain track) that is screwed to the trailer wall. The above photo suggests that pocket holes/screws were used on the back cleat. The end and mid panels help support the cabinet with blocks/cleats and screws or aluminum channels with a leg and riveted to the wall/ceiling.

Hope that helps.

[drboyd]

Another shot of the bottoms:

[HiJoeSilver]

Spookies, good timing, getting ready for this myself. Hope you don't mind if I hop in.
Dr Boyd, how did you attach to the ceiling? Similar to DavidF? Pocket screws into the aluminum? Any issues holding, screws coming loose? Can the back be pocket screwed horizontally from the bottom?

Im also trying to figure out how to support drawer slides where they go over wheel wells and can't transfer weight to floor.

[SuzyHomemakr]

Originally Posted by HiJoeSilver

Spookies, good timing, getting ready for this myself. Hope you don't mind if I hop in.
Dr Boyd, how did you attach to the ceiling? Similar to DavidF? Pocket screws into the aluminum? Any issues holding, screws coming loose? Can the back be pocket screwed horizontally from the bottom?

Im also trying to figure out how to support drawer slides where they go over wheel wells and can't transfer weight to floor.

I use small L-brackets screwed into the wood and riveted into the aluminum skin. Where it's just 1/4" paneling, I'll use a nut and bolt through the cabinet instead of a wood screw.

As to the drawers, (which I'm just about to do) I'll be using an upside-down L-shaped piece of 3/4" plywood that attaches to the floor, the underside of the countertop, and the inner skin. A pair of these will be connected together, and the drawer/door attached. Theoretically, the whole unit will slickly slide into place, be attached with a few screws, and then be done. All of my cabinets have curved faces, so this makes things even more problematic than they should be.