How To Install Toe Kick Boards For Kitchen Cabinets

It makes an unsightly gap.

How to install toe kick boards for kitchen cabinets.

If the floor is uneven use a scribe tool to transfer high spots to the kick board. How to install toe kick boards for kitchen cabinets. Nail them into place carefully. Sometimes unevenness in a floor can leave gaps between the toe kick and the floor.

Cut along the line with a jig saw before. Fit the toe kick boards in place cutting if necessary. That small recessed space between the bottom of your cabinets and the floor is known as the toe kick. Some cabinet installers use shims underneath structural kick boards.

Kick boards should fit flat on the floor. Ideally the toe kick will be completed prior to the installation but if the toe kick needs to be finished while on the cabinet a fast drying stain and urethane can be used. This is not necessary for kick boards if the cabinets are properly installed. If the toe kick is real wood predrill a small hole not all the way through to reduce the chance of the wood splitting.

Use a pneumatic brad nailer or drill pilot holes and drive 4d finishing nails through the toe kick into the cabinets.