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[Anonymous No.2463103]

How do I remove this cabinet?
I took out every screw. It kind of swivels and moves but it seems to be attached by the wall at the back of the cabinet.
There is a microwave that hangs over the stove below it. I need to remove this cabinet to remove the microwave because the microwave has to be lifted up off of a wall mount.

[Anonymous No.2463104]

>>2463103
It's probably on cleat lift the back straight up

[Anonymous No.2463107]

>>2463104
I tried. I stood on the stove and lifted straight up. It doesn’t budge.
I can pull down and lift the cabinet a little bit. It’s being held by something in the lower, bottom part near the wall behind the cabinet.

[Anonymous No.2463118]

>>2463103
c4


but seriously. how do you expect us to help you when we are not there and you posted 1 picture?

if someone put a screw somewhere hard to get we won't know where it is.

[Anonymous No.2463120]

>>2463103
Still attached to the microwave?

[Anonymous No.2463122]

>>2463107
Then it's the microwave and you don't need to remove the cabinet. Almost never do you need to remove the cabinet for an OTR microwave install unless it's newly external ventilation

[Anonymous No.2463125]

Imagine googling modelnumber installation sheet to see how to get the microwave out without removing cabinets. Absolute madness.

[Anonymous No.2463131]

>>2463103
this post epitomizes the problem with current generation.
>oh noes something slightly difficult is happening
>well I should stop everything and rush off to the worst place imaginable to get advice.

[Anonymous No.2463138]

>>2463103
The 2 screws at the front inside bottom of the cabinet are holding up the microwave

[Anonymous No.2463152]

>>2463131
Worse are the posts here of knuckledragging mouthbreathers looking for things to 'fix" in their rented hovel.
>How do i fix muh...
LEAVE IT THE FUCK ALONE

[Anonymous No.2463538]

>>2463103
>I need to remove this cabinet to remove the microwave
>When the kitchen was built they hung the microwave before the cabinetry
Do you realize how much of a madman you sound right now?

[Anonymous No.2463593]

>>2463103
the holes in the front of the cabinet should be for hanger bolts that come up from the microwave, the microwave should only be attached at the bottom rear and those hanger bolts, now that the hanger bolts are out you should just be able to tilt the microwave down forward and pull it off the mounting bracket
but you probably already tried that
in which case i have no idea how they mounted that thing to the wall only horizontally

[Anonymous No.2463609]

>>2463103
i assure you that the microwave was mounted AFTER the cabinet.

[Anonymous No.2463637]

>>2463131
you're fucking retarded

very often have i come to /diy/ in a pickle and gotten good advice. you just have to exercise critical thinking and separate the chaff.

[Anonymous No.2463656]

>>2463637
I've been here since 2007 and barely 1% of advice given here is good, correct, or helpful. in fact I never ask advice here. I come here on the off chance someone who is actually trying has a problems and I can give them actual helpful advice or direct them to a forum where they can get real advice.

the rest of the time I berate people for wanting people to do it for them. that is what OP wants.

[Anonymous No.2463874]

>>2463103
the cabinet has no connection to the wall
look if glued with the microwave
normally this types of cabs are featured with hooks for lifting up, but nothing to see here
the microwave is fucking heavy and has two fat hooks in the back
try to remove the spoilers from the microwave, eventually are there screws hidden

[Anonymous No.2464025]

OP here.
I see most of the replies are saying I can remove it without taking down the cabinet.
Thank you for the replies, but the cabinet is in the way. I removed the top screws in the microwave and the microwave slants downward a few degrees. It will NOT lift off of the cleat holding it. THE CABINET IS IN THE WAY.
I had sticks I placed vertically under the microwave on wedges I could slide to create high power, vertical push on the microwave. The motherfucking cabinet is in the way!

[Anonymous No.2464047]

>>2464025
Is that electrical box hanging the cabinet up?

[Anonymous No.2464052]

>>2464025
You might need tonask your husband to do it. Maybe it's too heavy for you

[Anonymous No.2464059]

>>2463103
Place a bucket of KFC in the cabinet, screw the doors shut, then invite round 5 of the biggest blackest niggers in the ghetto.

[Anonymous No.2464069]

>>2464025
OP… I assure you the cabinet doesn’t need to be removed. Watch a video of a microwave installation if you need to. Pull down on the front of the microwave, bend the wall mount if you have to, it’s sheet metal.

[Anonymous No.2464091]

>>2464059
Why would you assume OP isn't already in the ghetto? Very inconsiderate.

[Anonymous No.2464376]

>>2464047
Yes but op is retarded and doesn't need to remove the cabinet. As was pointed out several posts ago she just needs to lift the back of the microwave off the metal clear. The picture of the wall bracket posted by someone else confirms this.

[Anonymous No.2464382]

>>2463103
>I need to remove this cabinet to remove the microwave
you're doing it wrong
you never have to remove the fucking cabinet to remove a microwave

[Anonymous No.2465487]

>>2464376
>she just needs to lift the back of the microwave off the metal clear.
It's possible that the microwave was installed first. And then the cabinet was installed above it, not leaving sufficient clearance to lift the microwave off the bracket.

[Fuck The Electric Jew No.2465496]

>>2463103
You do not have to remove the cabinet to swap the microwave, I just did mine last year.
Re assemble your cupboards and remove the bolts at the top of the microwave attaching it to said cabinet above.
Rock the microwave forward slightly and lift the back off the metal rack. Make sure you have the strength to do it without dropping it onto your stove, if you don’t, stack up some wood so the microwave can drop into the pile gently

[Fuck The Electric Jew No.2465499]

>>2465496
Side note; If you have to remove the cabinet then it was installed improperly and you should lower the mounting rack at the back anyways, so just use a pry bar and pry the fucking thing off. You may need to patch the wall again after. It’s likely just a small sheet of drywall you’d need to replace anyways.

Alternatively look for small stickers covering screw heads aiming towards the adjacent cabinets.

[Anonymous No.2465746]

>>2465487
no it is not possible that the microwave was installed first. this is not a thing that is done.

[Anonymous No.2467301]

>>2465746
>it is not possible that the microwave was installed first
I've seen things on /diy/ that you wouldn't believe. It wouldn't surprise me to see a house built around a microwave.

[Anonymous No.2467805]

>>2465487
>It's possible that the microwave was installed first.
No it isn't, you fucking idiot. They didn't build the cabinet around the microwave, they set the microwave inside the cabinet
t. residential electrician