Select a location where you will be able to run wiring if you don t already have an electrical.
Cutting kitchen cabinets to fit microwave.
Make the cabinet over the stove shorter.
Many of the older style kitchens were not built to accommodate a microwave over the range.
If you surgically remove and shorten the bottom.
I work at a cabinet shop and it seems once a month someone buys a new refrigerator and its bigger than the old one so they need to replace the old cabinet ab.
He needed this to see how our new micro could fit.
My husband is a photographer and very visual.
It sounds tough and a bit crazy but it worked fine.
How to cut a cabinet for over the range microwave step 1.
We have a grey yes elephant grey hood fan that vents back into to the kitchen for goodness sake and a cabinet to take out and he could not visualize how the new bigger microwave could fit it we took out the cabinet.
It s possible to shorten a hood cabinet so an over the stove microwave will fit.
Choose an over the range microwave.
Remove any doors that cover the spot where you wish to cut the opening.
Use a cordless gun to remove the hinges from.
How to cut a microwave opening in cabinetry 1.