Cabinet Build: How To Make a Toe Kick

[@NewbTube69]

Festool owes this guy some discount codes

[@sedgetool]

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[@spkendrick]

this absolutely helped me!!! Thank you

[@sedgetool]

Glad it helped!

[@Aggiesig12]

Stay Shaaaaaaaap. Thanks for the info!

[@sedgetool]

You bet!

[@murphyrp01]

So great to have Americans using metric.

[@sedgetool]

Thanks Randall

Goals

[@jefflemay66]

Really cool assembly method! Thanks guys! Love all your videos 😁

[@sedgetool]

Glad you like them! Thanks !!!!!!

[@warrensmith2902]

Learned a new way to do toe kicks I like it. BTW, I Love my Hitachi Nail Guns. 23g, and narrow crown (Sold my 16g years ago). Picked up a Ryobi 18g, and I'm still, using my 20+ year old CH Framing gun as well. The compressor died 16 years ago. I've even used it to drive magnesium nails into concrete to anchor the wall studs in two different basements. A little bit of oil keeps em going strong. Even the Ryobi needs a bit of oil to keep the seals going strong.

[@sedgetool]

Hitachi nailers last a Loooooooooooong time ....

[@thegreat.95]

Thank you so much!!

[@sedgetool]

You're welcome!

[@rowland.woodworks]

I knew Big D was awesome but now with the MxPx shirt... legendary.

[@sedgetool]

too cool ,Right ?

[@thomasduncan5522]

I love the MxPx shirt!

[@sedgetool]

for sure !!!!

[@scandinavianfarming]

When i installed my kitchen, I made the spacers smaller in height then the actual toe kick. So that I cut put in the toe kick where I wanted it on the kitchen floor, level it out with shims and then trace the contour from the floor to the kick and then cut that of. Then I got the hole toe kick as a bering structure, straight to the floor. But you just have to take it in consideration when making the toe kick, to allow for 10-20mm to be cut off, depending on how level your floor is. But hey, really nice and easy way to make a toe kick. Without any visual screw holes. I like it.

[@sedgetool]

Thanks

[@tonyabdalla]

Really interesting way to build toe kicks Sedge! My uncle taught me a different way which resulted in filling a lot of holes. Gonna give this a try!

[@sedgetool]

Very cool!

[@jschlue]

Sedge, any thoughts on using prefinished ply for toekicks? I've got a ton of scrap but my immediate concern was glue-ability...?! Thanks for another awesome video.

[@sedgetool]

Pre-finished has never worked for me.. glue does not work well...

[@jschlue]

@@sedgetoolI also wanted to ask a question about finished (toe kick + cab + counter) height. My base cabs are 768H and I'm planning on 3cm countertop material. Would you normally stick with a 100mm toe kick and call it a day or do you try to make up the height (with a higher toe kick or additional layer of play on top of cabs to get closer to 36" counter height?

[@tedrzz]

How do you level out the toe kicks upon install? Do you use shims, or is it more of a cut down in little increments?

[@sedgetool]

I shim the kick ...

[@johndouglas6079]

Does the toe kick get painted? How do you finish it?

[@sedgetool]

you can paint it or what I do is once it is in place I skin it with 6mm ply

[@lizhang3409]

How would do the toe kick if i want to build toe drawers?

[@sedgetool]

compensate for drawer openings

[@jsf777golf]

What gauge and width staples did you use? I understand the length to be 1 1/4 inch.

[@sedgetool]

18Gauge 1/4 " crown

[@Jhursh]

Cool, how do you decide how deep to make the toe kick? 1/4 of total width of cabinet? Ig: 100 for 400 thx!

[@sedgetool]

subtract 100mm from overall depth of cabinet....

[@shapuraliyari9486]

Nice work except the measuring units. In the US we use the inches!!

[@sedgetool]

Cool, thanks

[@RaySchwanenberger]

Off the subject of the video, are those parts to shave horses leaning up against you cabinets?

[@sedgetool]

Ray...They are part on an Indian Chair build video we did ..kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWS9aYuthtJ6l9U

[@DsHardWoodCreations]

Sedge what type of oil was that?

[@sedgetool]

Air tool oil.... The brand I have is from Advantage tool fastening systems...bought it years ago in Florida.

[@clearcut6818]

Toute inside?

[@sedgetool]

huh

[@blulegos]

How do you attach the toe kick to the cabinet box?

[@sedgetool]

I don't...I set the kick ..level it ... screw it to wall ...and set cabinets on top ...

[@ThekiBoran]

For island cabinets we would screw the cabinets to the toe kicks. Fastcap makes the countersink bit for their screw caps which helps keep the caps in place.

[@She_is_beauti]

This is the exact question I was looking for. Thanks guys

[@stevene9785]

Excellent video. As a novice I thought the same. Much easier to level the kick. Can you suggest how to attach the base to the toe?

[@sedgetool]

I level and attach the toe kick to the wall. I set the base cabinets on top of toe kick and attach to the wall ... most of the time I do not have to attach base cabinets to the toe kick......

[@Cris-ss8tb]

" quatta"

[@sedgetool]

1/4

[@Cris-ss8tb]

100mm ? How much is it really? Lol

[@sedgetool]

100mm .....lol

[@larrymeares2240]

In the video you say you make the tie kick 100 mm height x 100 mm deep for 400 mm deep cabinets. I’m assuming they were more like 250-300 mm deep? Are you just insetting them 100 mm?

[@altuspienaar7679]

He clearly have not done an installation in a brick and mortar kitchen😂

[@sedgetool]

ok

[@RunningMan87]

Way overbuilt.

[@sedgetool]

Thanks

[@RunningMan87]

@@sedgetool you are welcome hope it helps