First kitchen commission - advice needed.

[billybuntus]

Just make sure you price in any unforeseen problems YOU WILL encounter

 

[jasonB]

I quite often use the plinth method on wardrobes, see my recent post.

You really need to see the job, I've worked in a few old barns & cottages - floors out 165mm over 3.0m, corners 50mm out of square over 1.2m and just wait until you try to hang cabinets on wattle & daub walls :!: Take a decent 6ft spirit lkevel with you when you go as its not always visible to the eye.

Jason

 

[pren]

I quite often use the plinth method on wardrobes, see my recent post.

It was actually that post that made me think it was something I could achieve. With out it, I think I would have attempted to make something that needed all the individual uprights shimming level.

I'm going to see the place in a couple of weeks. I'll make my plans after that.

Incidentally: how do you deal with a corner that is substantially out of square? If i'm making the units on site, is it a case of making the front edge of the cabinet line square and scribing a huge amount of the backs? Otherwise, make the cabinets shallower than normal and scribe the worktop massively?

I sense the learning curver will be steep :roll: :lol:

 

[jasonB]

I tend to work with a 650mm worktop so my carcases are a bit deeper or I can trim the backs to square things up. The problem with trying to run the carcases to follow walls is that you can have problems with draws/pull-outs fouling the adjacent fronts in corners that are less than 90deg.

I would not go with carcases that go down to the floor and need individual leveling, either adjustable legs on each carcased or a plinth.

Jason

 

[BradNaylor]

Bryn,

A word to the wise.

Do as much of the work in your workshop as you possibly can.

 

[Oryxdesign]

She said she'd seen an episode of DIY SOS where Bob (grumpy chippie) made a solid wood (Oak or pine?) kitchen from scratch on site.

Making stuff on site isn't cost effective, it always takes 4 times as long, make it all in your shop minimising the site work as much a s possible.

Simon

 

[Oryxdesign]

and it costs more in transport, time and money.

 

[Max Power]

and you'll have a very nosy ,sorry interested customer watching your every move :x

 

[pren]

Okay, Okay!! :-$ I'll make it in the workshop!

:lol:

I've just been doing some work on a bathroom and had to make up a side and end panel in the room. I REALLY wished I'd done that in my w/s.

I will be making all the components offsite and just put them together in the kitchen. I guess I could get a collection of suitably old handtools together so that I can be expertly 'ye olde hole' in something for when the client is around..... :lol:

For the plinth / base, I was thinking of making a ridgid deck with leveling legs underneath. that way, i can level the plinth without having to use shims. Then I'll scribe the front plinth panel to the floor and fix it with plinth clips.

 

[jasonB]

Would be easier to just put the legs onto the carcase base, saves doubleing up with both a deck and carcase bottom.

Jason

 

[pren]

Sorry, that's what I meant. Didn't really get it across properly. By 'deck' I meant the 'plinth'.

I suppose by that stage there's not really a whole lot of difference between this and a standard carcass.