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   HeavyDuty | May 04, 2004 05:37am | #1

   Is the 84" cab next to a base cab? If not you can cut 3/4" off the bottom of the 84". Then your toe kick would be 3/4" less.

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   calvin | May 04, 2004 05:42am | #2

   Moose, does this pantry cab stand alone? 

   You could cut the toe kick down.

   If adjacent to a bank of bases, the kicks won't line up.

   Remove all the wall cabs, narrow up the scribe and raise the wall cabs?

   Remove the wall cabs and scribe.  Remove the drywall on the soffit bottom, replace with 1/4" ply, corner bead (with tape) and mud to that?

   Start over?

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   Bowz | May 04, 2004 06:20am | #3

   Is it possible to re-mount the doors on the 84" cabinet a little lower, without drawing attention to it?

   What would a new shorter door cost, vs the time and risk of fixing what is there?

   Beware if you saw off the toe kick, that any electrical outlets cut into the back of the cabinet will need to be moved down also.

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   trimnailer37 | May 04, 2004 08:06am | #4

   so that means the pantry door is higher those of the adjacent wall cabs? cutting the kick and side panels down would leave the door lower than those of the base cabs. depending on the door style and ease of finish-match, best thing would be to cut the bottom (top would be too obvious) of the door the overlap distance, re-rout to match as near as possible whatever edge profile they used, finish, and drop the hinges the same distance. unless this would reveal the inside of the pantry cab at the top....

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   Sphere | May 05, 2004 02:53am | #5

   just skip the scribe and caulk in the top of the pantry to the soffit..

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   Chileab | Oct 02, 2005 04:50pm | #6

   Just curious - what did you end up doing?

   I have run into this situation many times.  Designers have put full overlay cabinets up to ceilings - which are never level.  Consequently scribe or crown big problem. 

   I had a similar situation as yours where oven cabinet at right end of cabinet run which wouldn't even go under the soffit - the homeowners had installed it out of level - with lowest part over the oven cab.  The cabinets to the left of the oven cab I lowered owered just enough to allow scribe to cover gap at hightest part of soffit -In under the lower  sections of the soffit   I let it protrude a bit down under the top of the doors.  Then I cut down the top of the pantry and lowered its doors.  I had to stop the scribe at the side of the pantry as there was not enough room for it.  Not an elegant solution but it looked decent enough for the homeowners.  since they had built the soffit they were happy I could make their job look good. 

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