When it comes to finding the best screws for hanging cabinets in your kitchen wall, please put your safety first and use this type screw.
Types of Cabinet Screws and their purpose
There are lots of different screws that take a part into making up your kitchen cabinets. Each type of screw has their own method of providing strength to your cabinet.
How to secure a hanging cabinet?
The best way to secure a wall cabinet or any cabinet in fact to a wall is to drill a screw through the back wall of cabinet and into the studs behind the wall. Most studs are at least 16 inches apart so as long as your cabinet is larger than 16 inches then there is a good chance that your cabinet will be inline of at minimum 2 studs.
How many screws to hang wall cabinets?
Depending on the size of your cabinet and how much weight it will carry is going to be the major factor to how many screws you should add to hold that cabinet. Most wall cabinets are commonly 30 to 26 inches wide and the average height is 36 to 42 inches to most standard wall cabinets.
For a regular wall cabinet you will use 4 screws to attach the cabinet to wall. Unless you have a very wide cabinet like 46 to 48 inches you will need at least 6 screws and the reason for that is so the corners don’t sag or fall out of level.
How long should my screws be for my kitchen cabinets?
Your screws should be at least 2.75 inches or 3 inches long. The reason why you should use screws that long is so that you are certain that plenty of the screws body is integrated into the stud of the wall because the following measurements will come into play. The back of your cabinet is about half an inch, then the drywall is another half an inch or 5/8th inch, meaning that anything over an inch will be what is really holding onto the the body of the stud.
Flat Head Screw
The sole purpose of flat head screws is for screwing cabinets together on face frame of kitchen cabinets to the point that the flat heads of screws are flush with the surface of the wood. Another benefit of flat head screws is that you can keep going deeper into the material you are joining by continuing to drill with your impact drill past the flush point and as deep as you see fit to meet your requirements.
Pan Head Screw
The pan head screw is basically a screw with a washer head on it to keep you from excessive drilling to guarantee the king of support the design is intended to offer. These type of screws are ideal for holding large mass objects in place with proper weight and strength distribution.
Dome Head Screw
A dome head screw in the kitchen is a specialty appliance. You will generally use these in hardware or drawer components of your cabinets. The best place for mechanical screws like these are on the door hinges for total adjustability of the height and angle your door is hanging off the cabinet.
Take Away
So once and for all what is the best screw for hanging wall cabinets?
The answer is pan head screws are specifically designed to help hold heavy objects in place like wall cabinets and other heavy structures.
We hope you have enjoyed learning about the different types of screws used in your kitchen cabinets and if you want to come see us install a kitchen from start to finish then come check out our youtube channel and tell us what you think.
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