Ten Steps to Measuring Your Kitchen

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Ten Steps to Measuring Your Kitchen

1) Sketch the room out on a piece of graph paper. Make sure to show all doors, openings, windows and any obstructions such as columns, beams, soffits, baseboard heat, radiators and vents etc.
2) Indicate location of plumbing for the sink.
3) Indicate location of gas line or electric for stove.
4) Indicate location of electrical outlets and switches.
5) Starting from one side of the room start measuring the walls. All measurements should be noted in inches.
6) First measure to any doors, openings or windows on the particular wall you are measuring. Measurements should be taken to the outside of any casings or moldings. Next measure from outside to outside of the casing or molding. Finally take an overall measurement of the wall. Continue the process around the whole room one wall at a time.
7) Measure the width of the casings or moldings and how far the casings or moldings protrude from the wall. Measure how far the window sill protrudes from the wall and how far past the window casing it goes and noting the height above the finish floor.
8) Measure the ceiling height and then measure the height of any existing soffits. Take note that if you are planning to remove any soffits to gain wall cabinet height, you must make sure there is nothing inside. Sometimes soffits cover beams, plumbing or electrical etc.
9) Look over your measurements to make sure nothing was missed.
10) Create an appliance schedule noting the width, height and depth of all appliances that will be used.

Some Tips
1) By using graph paper it will be easier to keep lines straight and neat.
2) The sketch of the room does not have to be to scale. When more of the paper is used, there will be more space for noting dimensions and will be much neater. A scale drawing can be made later from the measurement sheet.
3) Try to keep to a 1/16” tolerance when taking measurements

FOR A SAMPLE MEASURMENT SHEET & LAYOUT CLICK HERE