replacing my kitchen - some questions

Fix any water leaks first. When you fit your kitchen fit a rail, level on the wall but up off the floor. Depending on the size of the cabinets and your desired finished height the rail will be at 150 high +/-. Use plastic levelling legs on the front of the cabinets. When you clip your kickers to the legs bed them in a bead of silicone. If worse comes to worst you might just have to replace your kickers in a decade or two, but it's pretty unlikely.

Waterprofofing on the kitchen side is not neccesary or advisable as you really want to stop any leaks on the other side of the wall. If you fix the leaks it should all be fine, even if you're wet mopping every week. Different story if there's a leaky shower recess backing onto the kitchen though, that would be a fix it first job.

Mick

Originally Posted by Guiness812

...........Thanks for the advice, just to clarify are you suggesting that I not use the cabinet legs at the rear but rather nail or screw a rail to the wall for the back edge of the cabinets to sit on?

Yes, this is what I do. It makes it quicker and easier to level the cabinets. Otherwise you need to lie on the floor and reach underneath the cabinet to screw the legs up and down to get it level.

Mick

Originally Posted by Guiness812

Thanks for the advice, just to clarify are you suggesting that I not use the cabinet legs at the rear but rather nail or screw a rail to the wall for the back edge of the cabinets to sit on?

Mick is spot on. Make sure the rail is dead level. Now your floor may be out of plumb (probably is) so just measuring up from the floor and marking won't work. Check your floor and if it's out, say, 5mm or 10mm from one end to the other, split the difference when planning your cabinet height and then adjust each cabinet unit as you place it. Hope this isn't too confusing.