[bcbaird]

First on the list: matching wood filler for your cabinets. Helps fix dings, misdrills and other mishaps. I found a perfect match for my doors (Adel Birch) with Elmer'sNatural Colored wood fillerand it saved me from embarrassment many times.

Next: akneaded art eraser. Great for removing pencil marks from cabinet fronts, walls and anything else you mark up while installing things.

Also: Extra silicone dots for the doors. You'd be surprised how easy it is to lose the ones Ikea gives you, or how you always seem to end up one or two short.

Last but not least: quick clamps. These are MAJOR time savers when anchoring panels, securing cabinets together, etc. etc. The fact they can be operated with one hand makes them really handy when you're doing things yourself.

What are some thing that were great to have on your install?

[Tim_and_Joyce]

I think a good cordless drill with adjustable torque settings is a must. A rubber hammer also comes in handy for pounding hinges in. The most important thing to have is a LOT of patience!

[Alex]

^ i agree. My dad and I used two cordless drills when assembling my cabinets... one high-torque model for drilling and a smaller one with a more sensitive trigger for precision work

a water level comes in pretty handy too for making reference marks. you never know if the floor (or anything else) is perfectly level.

[stalefishlabs]

bcbaird wrote:

I found a perfect match for my doors (Adel Birch) with Elmer'sNatural Colored wood fillerand it saved me from embarrassment many times.

Great tip on the wood filler. Any thoughts on a matching material for Hallarum doors? I've had to shoot a few cover panels with finish nails, and I haven't decided on what to fill them with just yet. I considered a bronze caulk but some kind of wood filler would probably be better.

[bcbaird]

I would just go to the hardware stole with a scrap of the cover panel or plinth and find something that's close. If that doesn't work, you could probably mix a small amount of matching stain into thea natural-colored filler and get decent results.

[ikeafan60657]

Safety glasses for when you're hammering in the nails in the back of the cabinets. Hit them wrong and they fly back at you amazingly fast.

[knutter]

We actually had three drills on hand - two cordless drills: both adjustable torque, one with a driver attached for screwing things in, and the other with the appropriate drill bit for drilling. The third was a corded hammer drill for intense drilling like faucet holes in soapstone, etc. For the corded drills we also had angle attachments and extensions for those hard to reach places.

[kelly]

This is a great thread!! Thank you for starting and adding to it!

In addition to the great items already listed, I would add:

• Silicone gel knee pads- you'll thank me
• brad nailer- that's a lot of brads to bend if you're me
• gorilla glue- something will need to be glued and this will glue it forever
• This is already on the list, but let's reiterate- eye protection, even if you wear glasses. $2 well spent
• Another person and a good sized step stool for the tall cabinets (Akurum and PAX). You need to build the tall cabs upright if you have a tight fit againt the ceiling. If you build an 88" cab on the floor in an 8-ft room, you'll never get it upright. Just a reminder.

[Chuck]

Just a slight disagreement with what Kelly said about assembling the tall cabinets: for either one, you need only about 1 1/2" more ceiling height than the height of the cabinets. A second person is definitely a good thing though (even though I work alone).

With Pax, there's no trick to this, just simple math. With the Akurum cabinets, my one man solution is to build these laying face down in front of the spot on the wall where they will be installed. Attach both sets of leg blocks, put the rear legs in place, and stand the unit up; lean it back towards the wall, install the front legs, and then pinish placement of the cabinet.

I do this by myself all the time; with two people, there should be no problem.

	Akurum definition Akurum is the North American equivalent of FAKTUM; that is the fitted, frameless, component kitchen cabinet line, which when paired with door and drawer fronts as well as interior accessories makes up the full kitchen cabinet system.

[kelly]

I humbly accept Chuck's correction and love him like a skilled and well-informed brother.

Listen to him, and nod and smile at me.