ANSI/AWI 0641-2019 - Architectural Wood Casework Standard

a) At face frame casework, exposed fastening:

b) Grain shall run vertically on stiles and horizontally on rails.

c) Horizontal reveal between countertop’s bottom edge and overlay doors, drawer fronts, and false fronts shall be 6.4 mm [.250"] to 25.4 mm [1"] and shall be consistent across elevations. (See Figure 16)

d) When designed for flush inset doors, use of a bottom face frame component is:

a) Horizontal reveal between countertop’s bottom edge and overlay doors, drawer fronts, and false fronts shall be 3.2 mm [.125”] to 9.6 mm [.375”] and shall be consistent across elevations. (See Figure 15) At Laboratory countertops, the maximum reveal permitted shall be 25.4 mm [1”]. (See Figure 17)

a) Bottoms of wall-hung cabinets for exposed interior shall be:

a) On wall-hung cabinets, if cabinet ends or sides extend below the cabinet bottoms, the portion below the cabinet bottom is considered an exposed interior surface and shall be:

b) Exposed ends shall be:

c) When viewed from the side, exposed ends shall conceal all other cabinet components, except toe kicks on base cabinets where ladder bases or levelers are used.

d) Horizontal components (excluding countertops) shall not extend beyond the exposed end.

e) Secondarily applied exposed ends shall be mechanically fastened to the cabinet body.

f) Exposed fasteners are not permitted, except at access panels.

g) Unless prevented by design or usage, drawer compartments within a casework unit shall be separated from shelf or open compartments by a full-depth vertical division.

a) Cabinet backs are:

b) At multiple-panel backs, visible joints are not permitted at exposed or semi-exposed interiors where panels intersect.

c) At semi-exposed surfaces, vinyl overlay is permitted in cabinet backs if matched in color to other semi-exposed materials.

a) At the option of the manufacturer/supplier, base/toe kick shall be integral (constructed as an integral part of the cabinet body) or separate (constructed as a separate component).

a) Joints in Product shall be assembled to meet the tolerances defined within this standard and be securely attached, with any adhesive residue removed from exposed and semi-exposed surfaces.

b) Fixed horizontal cabinet components, including tops and bottoms, shall be either flush or set back a maximum of 2 mm [.078"] at their intersection with vertical components (See Figure 27) and shall be uniform throughout the room.

c) At 3 mm [.118"] thick edgebanding, radiused, beveled, or square edges and ends (See Figure 28) are permitted for horizontal and vertical components.

d) At 3 mm [.118"] thick edgebanding, radiused, beveled, or square edges are permitted provided that the core of the square edge component is not visible and that the “V" or gap that is formed where a component with a square end meets a component with a radius (See Figure 29) is uniform throughout the room and does not exceed:

e) Flushness variations in exposed and semi-exposed surfaces (See Figure 26, D) when mitered or butted shall not exceed:

f) Gaps in exposed and semi-exposed surfaces, when mitered or butted (see Figure 30, A) shall not exceed:

g) Gaps in exposed and semi-exposed surfaces between parallel components (see Figure 30, B) shall not exceed:

h) Gaps in exposed and semi-exposed surfaces, when mitered or butted (see Figure 30, C), shall not exceed:

i) Joint filler (putty), when used, shall be inconspicuous.

j) Sheet and laminated lumber panels shall be permitted to move, float, expand, or contract as a result of ambient humidity changes.

a) Material, pattern, and color shall be as specified and, if not specified, shall be of manufacturer/supplier’s choice.

b) Decorative laminate shall be of one color or pattern per room, with a maximum of five different colors or patterns per project.

a) Require HPDL or TFL or specified color or pattern

a) At exposed interior surfaces at doors and drawer fronts, interior face shall be:

b) Exposed interior surfaces, except at doors and drawer fronts, require:

a) Semi-exposed surfaces shall be HPDL or TFL at the option of the manufacturer/supplier.

a) Unless otherwise specified, Product shall be finished with a finishing technology per AWI Finishing Standard (current edition) of the manufacturer/supplier's choice.

b) Hardboard is not permitted for exposed surfaces.

a) At exposed exterior surfaces, wood shall be of the specified species, cut, veneer match, and:

a) Transparent finish requires:

b) Veneer for transparent finish shall be a minimum of:

c) Veneer at interior face of door and drawer fronts shall be a minimum of:

a) Surfaces shall be a minimum of:

a) Unless otherwise specified, Product shall be finished with a finishing technology per AWI Finishing Standard (current edition) of the manufacturer/supplier’s choice.

a) Opaque finish permits substrates of:

b) Veneer for opaque finish shall be closed-grain hardwood of manufacturer/supplier’s choice of species and a minimum of:

a) Opaque finish permits substrates of:

Opaque finish permits substrates of:

a) Flush overlay is the default for either frameless or face frame casework.

b) At exposed knuckle hinges, defaulting to reveal overlay is at the option of the manufacturer/supplier, unless otherwise specified.

c) At reveal overlay, the reveal shall be determined by the hinge clearance requirements (See Figure 35).

d) When adjacent and exposed, hinges shall align horizontally.

e) In flush overlay construction, wrap-around hinges shall be let into the edge of the door to maintain proper gap tolerance (See Figure 33). The resulting notching for hinges is:

f) In reveal overlay construction, wrap-around hinges are not required to be let into the edge of the door (See Figure 34).

a) Interior faces of sliding doors shall be of the same thickness and material as the exterior faces.

b) Thickness of wood and/or decorative laminate doors shall be a minimum of 6.4 mm [.250”] for doors 610 mm [24”] and under in height or 19.1 mm [.750”] for doors over 610 mm [24”] in height.

c) Hardboard 6.4 mm [.250”] thick and painted to match adjacent surface is:

d) Sliding doors more than 1.5 times as tall as they are wide shall be mounted with an overhead metal track and roller hanger to prevent tipping and binding.

e) In hanging track systems, exposed tracks are permitted.

f) Frameless glass sliding doors require carriers with metal tracks and top guides. Bottoms of upper cabinets shall be reinforced as needed to prevent sagging.

g) Thickness of frameless glass sliding doors shall be a minimum of 6.4 mm [.250”] tempered or laminated glass at the option of the manufacturer/supplier.

h) Frameless glass sliding doors shall have:

a) Moulded profile (sticking) shall be at the option of the manufacturer/supplier.

b) Stiles shall run the full height of the door.

c) Rails, including top, intermediate, and bottom, shall run between stiles.

d) Grain or directional pattern shall run vertically on stiles and horizontally on rails.

e) At panels, direction of grain or pattern shall:

f) When solid stock is used with veneer panels:

g) Flat panels shall be a minimum of 6.4 mm [.250"] thick.

h) At flat panels:

i) At raised panels:

j) Solid lumber is permitted for rim banding raised panels if mitered and glued under pressure.

k) The panel face veneer may be applied before or after rim banding.

l) Regardless of retention method, panels shall have adequate space to move, float, expand or contract as a result of ambient humidity changes.

m) Applied moulding shall be securely attached. Fasteners shall be inconspicuous.

n) Cores of panel product materials shall not be exposed.

a) When machining a door with glass cut-out, minimum clearance shall be 9.5 mm [.375”] between hardware machining and glass cut-out.

b) At opaque finish and decorative laminate doors, stops shall be synthetic or solid stock and compatible color to exposed interior surfaces.

c) At transparent finish doors, stops shall be synthetic or solid stock of compatible species to adjacent surfaces and compatible color to exposed interior surfaces.

d) Stops shall be continuous, removable, and on the interior only.

e) Mechanically fastened glass clips (See Figure 32) are:

f) Silicone or glazing putty used as a stop is:

g) Exposed rabbet shall be:

a) When veneer cores are specified for doors, they may be susceptible to warp and shall not be subject to warp/flatness tolerances contained within this standard.

b) Grained or patterned faces on doors, drawer fronts, and false fronts shall:

c) Solid lumber is not permitted at doors, except at stile and rail doors.

a) At decorative laminate drawer box joinery:

a) Drawer box systems shall be assembled in accordance with manufacturer/supplier’s documented instructions.

b) Wood components shall meet semi-exposed requirements within this standard or be color compatible with box system at the option of the manufacturer/supplier.

a) Horizontal grain for solid wood drawer fronts is permitted.

a) Grained or patterned faces on drawer fronts shall run either vertically or horizontally at the option of the manufacturer/supplier for the entire project. (See Figure 18 and Figure 19)

a) Thickness shall be:

a) Minimum depth shall be:

b) Length shall be (See Figure 36):

c) Metal shelf standards shall extend vertically to within 152.4 mm [6”] of the interior top and bottom of the cabinet shelf space, and be recessed in a plow, slightly proud of the face with the core not exposed.

d) Bored-hole shelf rest systems shall extend vertically to within 152.4 mm [6”] of the interior top and bottom of the cabinet shelf space.

a) Casework surfaces that are behind sliding presentation panels or removable presentation panels (such as marker and tack boards) shall be treated as:

a) Cut-outs shall have a minimum 6.4 mm [.250”] radius.

b) At cut-outs and corresponding access panels creating a reveal greater than 3.2 mm [.125”], edges must be painted or edgebanded.

a) Aesthetic requirements of installed scribes, fillers, and closure panels shall be in accordance with ANSI/AWI 0620-2018 - Finish Carpentry/Installation.

b) Casework shall be scribed to finished walls and/or ceilings using integral scribes, scribe fillers, or scribe moulding at voids between cabinets and adjacent walls or ceilings.

c) Scribes and fillers shall be a minimum of 6.4 mm [.250”] thick.

d) Voids at top and bottom of cabinet shall have closure panels. Voids exceeding the allowances indicated below in width shall have closure panels a minimum of 6.4 mm [.250”] thick (See Figure 41 and Figure 42).

e) Scribe fillers (See Figure 8) or scribe mouldings (See Figure 9):

f) For scribe allowance options, see Figure 10.

g) Material shall match exposed surfaces and be furnished by the manufacturer/supplier.

h) Fillers at inside corners where two elevations of casework meet shall be equal in width and not wider than 76.2 mm [3”], unless required for hardware clearance during operation.

a) Joints are not permitted:

b) Soffit and fascia panels shall be a minimum of 12.7 mm [.500”] thick.

c) At fascia panels, grain direction (if any) shall run vertical, or be at the option of the manufacturer/supplier if less than (See Figure 85):

d) Where soffit and fascia panels meet, grain direction shall be continuous.

a) Edges shall be HPDL, PVC, or ABS a minimum of .5 mm [.018”] thick and maximum of 3 mm [.118”] at the manufacturer’s choice.

b) PVC and ABS shall be well matched to the exposed face.

c) PVC and ABS edgebanding thicker than 1 mm [.039”] shall be radiused or beveled on edges and corners.

d) HPDL edgebanding shall match exposed surfaces.

a) Edgebanding on exposed edges is required and shall be compatible for color and grain with exposed surfaces.

b) Exposed edges shall be edgebanded with solid wood, veneer, or veneer tape a minimum of .5 mm [.018”] thick to match the exposed exterior surface.

c) Veneer tape edgebanding thicker than 1 mm [.039”] be shall be radiused or beveled on edges and corners.

d) Finger joints in veneer tape used as edgebanding are permitted.

a) At opaque finish:

a) Top and bottom edges are concealed and not required to be edgebanded or filled.

b) Vertical edges are considered exposed and shall be edgebanded.

a) Doors manufactured/supplied from panel products shall be edgebanded or finished to match exposedsurfaces.

a) Frameless glass doors shall have:

a) At edgebanding thickness less than 6.4 mm [.250”], the sequence of applying edgebanding shall be at the option of the manufacturer/supplier.

b) Wood edgebanding thickness greater than or equal to 6.4 mm [.250”] on face shall be mitered.

c) At back-beveled edges, edgebanding shall be specified.

d) Drawer fronts and false fronts shall be edgebanded at all four edges except when back-beveled or when composed of solid wood.

a) At opaque finish:

a) Top edges of drawer box shall be edgebanded.

b) At veneer core of seven-ply or more with no voids, edgebanding is not required.

c) At transparent finish panel product drawers:

a) Top edges of drawer box shall be filled and sanded smooth or edgebanded.

a) Top edges of drawer box shall be edgebanded.

b) Edgebanding shall match drawer box color.

a) At solid stock, drawer edges shall be:

a) Edges of adjustable shelves at semi exposed surfaces shall match interior or exterior surfaces at the option of the manufacturer/supplier.

b) If the gap between the end of a shelf and the interior cabinet body exceeds 6.4 mm [.250”], both ends of the shelf shall be:

a) Edges of writing or utility shelves shall be edgebanded with a material compatible in color to the exposed interior surface.

a) Machining rules for exposed and semi-exposed surfaces shall comply with smoothness requirements.

b) Sharp edges shall be eased.

c) Flat wood surfaces which can be sanded require a minimum of:

d) Profiled and shaped wood surfaces require a minimum of:

e) Turned wood surfaces require a minimum of:

f) Visible sanding marks, excluding turned surfaces, shall be inconspicuous.

g) Tear out, knife nicks, or hit or miss machining is not permitted.

h) Glue or filler shall be inconspicuous and match the adjacent surface for smoothness.

a) HPDL, PVC, and prefinished wood edges shall be machined flush and filed, sanded, or buffed to remove machine marks and sharp edges.

b) Overlap (See Figure 23, F) shall not exceed:

c) Chip-out (See Figure 24, G) in area G shall be inconspicuous when viewed at:

d) Over-machined (See Figure 25, H) removal of color or pattern of face material shall be limited to:

a) Doors, drawer fronts, and false fronts shall be properly sized to permit edge alignment between doors and adjacent drawers.

b) Edge alignment of doors and drawers (See Figure 30-N), in both the vertical and horizontal plane, shall not exceed:

c) Doors and drawers shall align on the same flat plane as one another (See Figure 30-J) with a variance not to exceed:

a) In reveal overlay frameless construction, the maximum uniform reveal (See Figure 43) within a cabinet elevation, between any edge of a door and/or drawer and another door and/or drawer or finished end, and doors hung in pairs, shall be as specified. If not specified, the following conditions shall apply (See Figure 43):

b) “X” shall be 3.2 mm [.125”], subject to a maximum uniform variance of:

c) “Y” shall be determined by the hinge overlay.

d) “Z” varies from 3.2 mm [.125”] to 9.6 mm and shall be consistent across elevations (See Figure 15). However, for laboratory countertops, reveal at “Z” may be 6.4 mm [.250”] to 25.4 mm [1”] to permit attachment of laboratory equipment. (See Figure 17)

a) In flush overlay frameless construction, the maximum uniform reveal (See Figure 44) within a cabinet elevation, between any edge of a door and/or drawer and another door and/or drawer or finished end, and doors hung in pairs, shall be as specified. If not specified, the following conditions shall apply (See Figure 44):

b) “X” shall not exceed 3.2 mm [.125”].

c) “Y” shall not exceed 1.6 mm [.063”].

d) “X” and “Y” are subject to a maximum uniform variance of:

e) “Z” varies from 3.2 mm [.125”] to 9.6 mm and shall be consistent across elevations (See Figure 15). However, for laboratory countertops, reveal at “Z” may be 6.4 mm [.250”] to 25.4 mm [1”] to permit attachment of laboratory equipment. (See Figure 17)

a) In reveal overlay face frame construction, the maximum uniform reveal (See Figure 45) within a cabinet elevation, between any edge of a door and/or drawer and another door and/or drawer or cabinet component, and doors hung in pairs, shall be as specified. If not specified, the following conditions shall apply (See Figure 45):

b) “X” shall not exceed 3.2 mm [.125”], subject to a maximum uniform variance of:

c) “Y” shall be as specified, indicated, or agreed. “Z” varies from 6.4 mm [.250”] to 25.4 mm [1”] and shall be consistent across elevations (See Figure 16).

a) At inset face frame construction, the maximum uniform reveal (See Figure 46) within a cabinet elevation, between any edge of a door and/or drawer and another door and/or drawer or cabinet component, and doors hung in pairs, for “X” shall not exceed 3.2 mm [.125”], subject to a maximum uniform variance of:

b) “Y” and “Z” shall be as specified, indicated or agreed.

a) Flatness and warp of cabinet doors (See Figure 5-E) shall not exceed the grade tolerances indicated below in the diagonal or width and/or length as a linear ratio.

b) Flatness of installed and removable sheet products (See Figure 5, E), including doors, shall not exceed the following per lineal 305 mm [12"]:

c) Flatness and warp tolerances of cabinet doors shall not exceed a maximum of 6.4 mm [.250"] in any single door.

d) Measurements for flatness and warp shall be taken on the concave face of the panel.