IKEA Billy Corner Built-In Bookcase

Various tips for installing and achieving a finished look with the Billy bookcase system and corner unit. Clarifications: Around 4:12 I discuss connecting adjacent cabinets together. The order matters. Here's how I did it: fasten centre cabinet to wall, fasten adjacent cabinets to centre cabinet, fasten adjacent cabinets to wall. The required connector bolt length is slightly less than two times the cabinet wall thickness. Sorry I can't remember what this is, just measure it. This video demonstrates the scribing technique for the gable end    • Easy Trick For Scribing Kitchen End Panels   I cut the gable end and the top trim all from a single 3x8' sheet of IKEA Forbattra Search youtube for 'track saw jig' -- there are a million videos. This enabled me to make an accurate 8'-long cut along the gable end scribe line. This video is informal and rambly so jump to the topic of interest: 0:00 Intro 0:56 Layout intro 2:20 Cabinet positioning 2:45 Fastening to wall studs using L-brackets 3:15 Fastening height-extension to bottom cabinet with mini L-bracket 4:12 Using connector bolts to fasten adjacent cabinets to each other. 16:10 how to drill the holes cleanly 5:45 Corner cabinet! How it works, using the bracket. 7:15 Using height-extension cam bolts to fasten corner top-bracket rather than the included screws 7:57 Reinforcing the corner connection using steel strapping 8:32 End cabinet gaps to the wall, how to fasten cabinet despite this gap.' 11:50 Corner cabinets are not fastened to the wall 12:16 Filling gaps and using a gable-end / cover panel (IKEA Forbattra) 14:52 Be aware of electrical outlets that are covered up 17:20 More discussion on gable end cover panels / scribing 19:04 How to get clean cuts / avoid tear-out on cover panel 20:22 How to get perfectly cut baseboard 21:08 Top filler pieces 22:45 Door alignment (Oxberg) 24:48 Aligning bottom and top doors to each other, in the frontal plane 26:02 Separate soft close mechanism from Amazon. I used the BLUM 971A9700.22. Read the reviews on having to sand the plastic spacers. 26:47 Establishing gap between bottom and top doors