That week we had three kitchens with the same weird corner issue

It was about six weeks ago, and I had three separate installs lined up, all in different neighborhoods. Each one had a 45-degree corner cabinet where the walls were just slightly out of square, but in the exact same way. The first one, over in the West End, I had to scribe the filler almost an inch and a half on site. By the third job, I was cutting the filler pieces in the shop before we even loaded the truck, adding that extra material as a standard step. It saved us hours of on-site fitting each day. What stood out was how that one repeating problem made the whole week feel both frustrating and then really smooth once we figured out the pattern. Has anyone else hit a streak of jobs with the same specific fit challenge? How did you adjust your prep work?

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xena_rivera632mo ago

Adjusting your prep in the shop is smart, but it can backfire if the next job's walls are off in the opposite direction. My crew prefers to measure each corner on site and cut fillers there. It avoids wasting material when the problem isn't exactly the same.

the_robin1mo ago

And that's exactly where I've seen guys get burned. You prep for one kind of problem and the next house has the opposite issue, then you're stuck shaving down filler strips that were cut too short to begin with. I've learned the hard way that you really need to treat every room like it's its own little world. Measuring on site and cutting there keeps you honest and saves a lot of headache. It's slower upfront but you don't end up with a pile of scrap that could have been used somewhere else.

skyler_kim2mo ago

Forgot to check the floor level. A corner can be square but the floor dips. Throws off the whole cabinet line.