Cabinet guides for dealers and installers

Reference pages for the trade: nominal sizes, the SKU names on a price list, how to measure a kitchen and how a linear-foot number is built. Always confirm against your manufacturer's spec book.

• Base cabinet dimensions: height, depth, widths and toe kick

  Base cabinet height, depth, widths and toe kick, and how they add up to a 36-inch counter.

• Cabinet filler strips: what they are, which sizes, and where they go

  Fillers explained: F3 and F6 strips, wall and tall fillers, clearance at walls and corners, scribing, and counting them on a quote.

• Cabinet SKU codes explained: what B24, SB36, W3030 and LS36 mean

  The cabinet naming system: prefixes for each kind of box and how width and height are read from the digits of B24, W3030 or U1884.

• Corner cabinet sizes: lazy susan, blind corner and diagonal wall cabinets

  Lazy susan, blind corner and diagonal wall cabinet sizes, and how much of the next wall each one takes.

• How to measure a kitchen for cabinets: the field checklist dealers and installers use

  The site-measure procedure: walls at three heights, openings with sill heights, utility centers, appliances, and plumb and square checks.

• Kitchen cabinet cost per linear foot: how to build the number from your own line

  Building a per-lf cabinet price from your own line: box sell price ÷ width × 12, the median and the range, base and wall counted apart.

• Kitchen cabinet sizes: a standard dimensions chart

  One chart of standard US kitchen cabinet sizes, from B09 to U2496, with height, depth and the SKU each size goes by.

• RTA vs assembled vs semi-custom vs custom cabinets: what each means for a dealer

  RTA, assembled, stock, semi-custom and custom cabinets compared from the dealer's side: ordering, sizes, lead time, assembly and pricing.

• Sink base cabinet sizes: 30, 33 and 36 inches

  SB30, SB33 and SB36: how to choose a sink base from the sink, and what goes beside it.

• Wall cabinet dimensions: height, depth, widths and how high to hang them

  Upper cabinet heights, depth, widths and the 18-inch gap, with the over-refrigerator and microwave sizes.