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If you are installing a microwave hood over the range, you have to install a bracket that comes with the microwave. What we are seeing a lot of, is that residents of homes being foreclosed upon will take the microwave hood thinking they will either sell it or install it at a new property. The problem is that without the bracket, they won’t be able to mount it to the wall.
The brackets are specific to the microwave hood. In other words, I can’t install a Hotpoint microwave oven on a Magic Chef bracket. The brackets are not interchangeable. So if you are buying a new house and you see the microwave missing from the wall, but the bracket is still there, unless you buy the same unit, you will probably have to remove the old bracket and install the correct one that came with the new microwave.
Fortunately this isn’t hard to do. The new microwave will come with a paper template to hold against the wall. This will allow you to install the fasteners in the correct locations so as not to interfere with the microwave, but also to make sure it stays secure to the wall. There are diagrams on the template with various hole locations that allow you to insure at least one of the fasteners is secured into a wall stud, and others can use wall anchors.
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