Today we will teach you How To Add Cabinet Wall Blocking To Stud Walls for your Kitchen Cabinet Installation and you will do it yourself. DIY Alert: Building codes require all kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities to be attached to the wall via screws through stable fixed member structural supports such as studs. In this case, we have added cabinet blocks in between the wall studs where the kitchen cabinets will be mounted, so that when you are installing kitchen cabinets, you'll always hit wood when you screw the cabinets in the area of the cabinet blocking.

Tools used in this cabinet blocking video:
Amazon link to Dewalt Framing Nailer Kit we use:
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It's a 20-Volt MAX XR Lithium-Ion battery cordless brushless 2-speed 33-degree framing nailer. This stud wall nailer comes with charger and case too. I got this as a great alternative to having a compressor and twisted hoses everywhere to power a framing nailer to nail the bottom plate and wall studs back together, and add cabinet blocking to our stud walls.

If you were always considering how to install kitchen cabinets, it starts with adding Cabinet Blocking, also known as Wall Blocking, to your kitchen wood stud walls, whether they are load bearing walls or not. We have some useful kitchen remodeling ideas toady for all you do it yourself folks.

Cabinet blocking in walls helps you avoid having to search blindly through drywall for wall studs to mount your kitchen cabinets to during your DIY kitchen remodeling project. Wall blocking has been around for years, you need wall blocks already in stud walls for fire safety purposes, so just add some cabinet blocking in walls.

Make sure you know the correct cabinet blocking height to attach the blocks to the stud wall, Your kitchen cabinet drawings should show the heights at the top and bottom of each cabinet so you know where to install your cabinet blocks.

This fool proof method of blocking for drywall stud walls gives you a smooth and easy Kitchen Cabinet Installation because you don't waste time searching in vain for those elusive wall studs, only to drive in your screw through the cabinet back and just past the edge of the wall stud and miss your mark.

Also sometimes studs are in a very inconvenient spot for one of your cabinets, or the spacing of your studs can sometimes leave you with only one stud behind each cabinet.

This clever process we show you here eliminates all these cabinet installation problems by giving you a continuous stud (block) all the way across your kitchen cabinets, so that it is impossible for you to ever miss a stud. No matter where you drill in your screws, you are guaranteed to always hit wood. We hope you enjoyed this DIY how to video on kitchen cabinet wall blocking.

00:00 Introduction What is Cabinet Blocking?
01:37 Size of wood to use for stud wall blocking
02:17 Attaching cabinet blocks to the stud wall
04:09 Overview of completed blocking installation
05:59 Installing kitchen cabinet blocking around plumbing
09:44 Installing fire blocking