Much as the title really, I have an inbuilt wardrobe that's crying out to have shelving built in.
I’m really looking for some tips and advice on how best to go about this project. This is my first proper entry into wood work, so have limited tools and experience, but I am keen to give this a good go and get the right advise to hopefully achieve a semi-respectable product at the end.
A rough idea of how I would like the interior of the wardrobe to look. Its currently just got one hanging rail installed all the way across and nothing else.
To get the material dimensioned I’m thinking to use somewhere like Cutwright or AvonPly which seems to get good reviews here. So I’m trying to prepare a cutting list and here is my first hurdle.
Material? 18mm PLY or 18mm melamine faced MDF?
How would you go about making something like this? Should it be 3 or 4 carcasses? Or where I have the option to secure shelves straight to the walls, should I just have strips cut and screwed straight into the walls for shelf support?
How should I be connecting the shelves to the verticals? Again my tools are limited, so should I be asking the wood merchant to cut a rebate, pre-drill holes for dowels or similar? If drilling/cutting into the verticals do I need to double up on each vertical for the left and right side shelves so I have enough thickness or is there a better method?
Apologies that these are all quite basic questions, just trying to get the process straight, before progressing to spending out on materials.
Grateful for any advice that comes my way.
Thanks.
Rich
I’m really looking for some tips and advice on how best to go about this project. This is my first proper entry into wood work, so have limited tools and experience, but I am keen to give this a good go and get the right advise to hopefully achieve a semi-respectable product at the end.
A rough idea of how I would like the interior of the wardrobe to look. Its currently just got one hanging rail installed all the way across and nothing else.
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To get the material dimensioned I’m thinking to use somewhere like Cutwright or AvonPly which seems to get good reviews here. So I’m trying to prepare a cutting list and here is my first hurdle.
Material? 18mm PLY or 18mm melamine faced MDF?
How would you go about making something like this? Should it be 3 or 4 carcasses? Or where I have the option to secure shelves straight to the walls, should I just have strips cut and screwed straight into the walls for shelf support?
How should I be connecting the shelves to the verticals? Again my tools are limited, so should I be asking the wood merchant to cut a rebate, pre-drill holes for dowels or similar? If drilling/cutting into the verticals do I need to double up on each vertical for the left and right side shelves so I have enough thickness or is there a better method?
Apologies that these are all quite basic questions, just trying to get the process straight, before progressing to spending out on materials.
Grateful for any advice that comes my way.
Thanks.
Rich