Discover practical planning, organisation, assembling, and fitting techniques for cabinets for a variety of uses.
This course teaches how to:
- Recognize warning indications of subpar cabinet construction or flaws that affect design and/or functionality and learn how to solve issues!
- demonstrates to people how restoration may be done correctly for an excellent result!
- outlines tactics that can be used into a targeted plan for cabinetry production or safe and simple installation!
Why choose ACS as your online school…
- By working with both unfinished and finished materials and tools, students will be motivated to learn beyond the course materials.
- Students get knowledge on how to respond to the demands of clients or employers looking for cabinet making expertise.
- Students will discover the intricacies of the cabinet-making process in simple-to-follow lesson materials that have been professionally arranged.
- As they advance, students will have access to tutor help for the ups and downs.
- Students will have tutor support available for the ups and downs as they progress.
Lesson Structure
There are 10 lessons in this course:
- Nature & Scope of Cabinet Making
- Introduction to Cabinet Making
- Design of Cabinets
- Types of Cabinets
- Construction Materials
- Career Opportunities in Cabinet Making
- The Cabinet Maker’s Workshop
- Introduction to the Workshop
- Workshop Safety
- Workshop Tools and Equipment
- Hand Tools
- Power Tools & Machinery
- Sawing Machines
- Other Equipment
- Tool Care
- Job Preparation
- Introduction to Planning
- Taking Measurements
- Measurement Equipment
- Understanding Technical Drawing
- Types of Drawings
- Making Drawings for Clients
- Taking On-Site Measurements
- Estimating Costs
- Cabinet Construction
- Benchtops
- Strength in Construction
- Frameless Construction
- Framed Construction
- Cabinet Making Jigs
- Adhesives and Sealants
- Cabinet Doors
- Introduction to Doors
- Cabinet Styles
- Types of Cabinet Doors
- How to Make Doors
- Hanging Cabinet Doors
- Hinge Types and Installing Hinges
- Sliding Doors
- Cabinet Drawers
- Drawer Design Introduction
- Making Drawers
- Types of Joints
- Drawer Fronts/Panels
- Installing Drawers
- Installing Kitchen Benchtops or Work Surfaces
- Installing Wall Cabinets
- Adjusting Fitted Units
- Onsite Installation
- Installing Base or Floor Cabinets
- Installing Benchtops or Work Surfaces
- Installing Wall Cabinets
- Adjusting Fitted Cabinets
- Free-Standing Cabinets
- Versatility of Free Standing Cabinets
- Types of Cabinets Room by Room
- How to Make Free-Standing Cabinets
- Finishes & Furniture
- Surface Preparation for Finishes
- Finishing with Paint
- Using Stains
- Special Finishes – Veneers
- Natural Timbers Finishes
- Outdoor Finishes
- Protecting the Insides of Cabinets
- Cabinet Furniture
- Special Project: Build a Cabinet
- Option A: Making a Cabinet
- For this option the cabinet to be constructed can be a relatively simple cabinet such as a small wall cabinet/medicine cabinet for a bathroom, or it can be a free-standing cabinet like a dressing table or linen cupboard, or it can be a fitted cabinet like a built-in wardrobe, bathroom cabinet, or kitchen unit.
- Option B: Restoring or Altering a Cabinet
- Alternative project for those unable to make a cabinet:
- Students must restore a cabinet or make significant alterations to a cabinet. The cabinet selected for restoration or modification can be any sort of cabinet that the student has access to.
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school’s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
Aims
- Discuss the elements of cabinets, cabinet kinds, cabinet materials, and the function of cabinet makers.
- Explain the layouts of the hand and power tools, as well as how to use them, in the cabinet-making workshop.
- Explain the benefits of work preparation before starting any cabinet-making projects and identify the
- specific skills required for effective preparation.
- Explain the many types of cabinet construction.
- Talk about the various designs and elements of cabinet doors.
- Explain how the drawer installation is finished after describing the construction of the drawer boxes and fronts, including the installation of the front panel.
- Describe the safe and correct onsite installation of fixed or wall-mounted cabinetry.
- Provide an explanation of how free-standing cabinets are built and put together.
- Describe the finishing processes for the various materials used in cabinet building.
- Create a cabinet from scratch, restore an existing cabinet, or make changes to it.
How You Plan to Act
- This course will improve the students’ abilities to create or restore furniture and is skills-based.
- Prepared by ACS content specialists with expertise in design, engineering, construction, carpentry, and materials science.
- Ten lessons make up the course, which varies in breadth while also supporting depth of learning through carefully crafted objectives and exercises.
- a practical, hands-on training that calls for focus and commitment from students.
There are currently opportunities in cabinet making!
Work for cabinet makers can be found in a variety of fields, including construction, manufacturing, and retail. Cabinet manufacturers may work in factories or warehouses if they are in the manufacturing industry.
People might start modest firms or work for themselves. Cabinet manufacturers that work for themselves could operate out of a garage, workshop, shed, or another location.
Some might only produce cabinets on demand for enterprises and retail clients in the private sector. Subcontractors, staff members of building firms, or small-scale home builders are further career options.
What Skills Will You Need for Success?
Cabinet making requires different skills – technical, organisational, and craftsmanship.
- Being physically fit is a must because the work might be strenuous.
- having an excellent sense of detail.
- To successfully organise jobs, one needs planning skills.
- When working with clients and other people, effective communication skills are essential.
- Design requires imagination.
- In order to solve construction-related challenges, problem-solving abilities are useful.
- When things don’t go according to plan, patience is also a virtue that is required.
This course complements other qualifications or experience in:
Construction Renovation
Creating and repairing furniture
Carpentry
Self-Sufficiency
Healthy Structures I
Healthy Structures II
..and more!
