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Room to Grow: How to Install a Vanity Enhance an outdated bathroom with prefabricated vanities. From "Sweat Equity" episode DSEQ-110

Replacing Kim’s orange bathroom countertop is a good idea, for style and for equity! Prefabricated vanities are available at most hardware stores and are an easy way to upgrade an outdated bathroom. Using remnant granite for her countertop and making the granite template herself, Kim saves some extra cash.

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Materials:

prefabricated vanity
screwdriver
screws
tape measure
level
shims
carpenters pencil
stud finder
countertop/sink
faucet
thin wood pieces
tin snips
wood glue

	Figure A
	Figure B
	Figure C

Safety Alert:

• Always wear protective eyewear when working with power tools.

How to Install a Vanity:

• Contractor Adam Berlin helps Kim install her new bathroom cabinet. They first set the cabinet into place and check to ensure that it is level, using shims when necessary (figure A).

• Adam locates the studs in Kim’s wall and they sink screws through the back of the cabinet into the studs (figure B).

• Then Adam measures Kim’s cabinet. He cuts thin wood pieces with tin snips and glues them together to send to a granite fabricator (figure C).

• The granite arrives just in time and Kim and Adam glue the countertop, sink included, onto the cabinet.

RESOURCES :

Handyman Matters
Website: www.handymanmatters.com

GUESTS :

Adam Berlin
General Contractor
Maverick Home Remodeling Inc.
Website: www.RenewTheHome.com