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   FastEddie1 | Jul 10, 2004 04:36pm | #1

   How old is the house?

   Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!"  Then get busy and find out how to do it.  T. Roosevelt

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   ktay | Jul 11, 2004 06:08pm | #5

   hmm, age of house. Maybe built in the 50's.

   (I live by your quote from T.R. I'm a cabinetmaker not a carpenter).

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   Longhair | Jul 10, 2004 04:57pm | #2

   use some really strong sheeetrock screws

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   FastEddie1 | Jul 10, 2004 05:12pm | #3

   You're kidding, aren't you?Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!"  Then get busy and find out how to do it.  T. Roosevelt

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   IMERC | Jul 10, 2004 05:16pm | #4

   You been here long enough to know the versiltility of PS's...

   he's serious..

   Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming....                                                                   WOW!!!   What a Ride!

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   Longhair | Jul 11, 2004 09:37pm | #6

   ya think?lol

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   Piffin | Jul 11, 2004 10:09pm | #8

   Don't make me come over there and thump you

   ;) 

    

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   Piffin | Jul 11, 2004 10:07pm | #7

   It is hard to know what exactly you mean about avoiding damage to the stucco. hanging cabinets usually means putting some holes in the wall for the screws or a mounting rail. Is this perhaps a rental and you plan to take the cabs with you? Then respect for the property dominates and you want the smallest holes possible and to patch them when done.

   Simplest is to get a good stud finder, the sixty four dollar one by Zircon, not their cheapies. Do your layout and then start the screws in the cab frame, hold in place and run the screw in. GRK Canada Reiser scews with Torx heads are good with self drilling tips.

   If it is real stucco, and really good hard stuco that you cannot screw thru, you will beed to locate and pop through first.

   Another option is to place a mounting rail on the wall at the location of top and bottom of the cab. You can add adhesive and do some serious drilling and screwing on it and then you have a wood rail to screw the cabs too, but this has to be a part of your planned design to start with.

    

    

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   Piffin | Jul 11, 2004 10:17pm | #9

   screws should be structural screws. Cabs should never be hung with sheetrock screws. 

    

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   ktay | Jul 12, 2004 04:06am | #10

   Sounds manageable. Guess I'll have to replace my $15 stud finder though (damn thing never did work).  Thanks for the advice.