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More under stairs work (finally fitted)

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I started this job on Monday. It is another set of pull out under stairs cupboards. I took a template of the stairs last week which you can see in the background. I then made the face frame up allowing for some trimming when on site. With these being such large units I am making frames to accommodate them. they will be in pine with raised panel doors. Two of the cupboards will slide out and two will be hinged opening. The smallest will be hinged to allow access under a return in the staircase. These will be stained to match the stair case when complete.
I already have the door frames machined up ready for assembly but still have the panels to raise.
 
I got on with the doors today. After assembling them all I realised I had made a mistake!

Both the smaller doors were too tall! I could have kicked myself when I realised what I had done. I had to take them both apart again and trim them down. Ended up making a new bottom rail for them.

I left these in glue up while i started working on the slides. By the end of the day I had them in place.
 
A question Alan about the slide-out sections. I notice sometimes that you have rather tall racks which slide out on sliders both at the bottom and the top. The drawer sliders I am familiar with require the drawer to be located onto the mechanism, tilted downwards, pushed in a little, then tilted upwards before being pushed in for the first time. I can't see how this works if you have a slider at the top. As I am about to be faced with similar situations in my kitchen, I thought I'd best check how you overcome this, or whether you have a different type of slider.
 
Mike G":1w7dyrau said:
A question Alan about the slide-out sections. I notice sometimes that you have rather tall racks which slide out on sliders both at the bottom and the top. The drawer sliders I am familiar with require the drawer to be located onto the mechanism, tilted downwards, pushed in a little, then tilted upwards before being pushed in for the first time. I can't see how this works if you have a slider at the top. As I am about to be faced with similar situations in my kitchen, I thought I'd best check how you overcome this, or whether you have a different type of slider.
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Mike,
Are you using full extension slides? The ones I have used you just line up the slide and guide it in, there are 3 sections to the slide, one fixed to the cabinet, one to the drawer box and then a third that has ball bearings that run on both of the fixed parts, allowing the whole of the box to come out of the cabinet. It sounds like you could be using 2 part runners that only have 2 rollers and the box is always partly inside the cabinet.
 
Ah, right...............of course. Yes, I was talking about the two-part, two roller runners.
 
The runners I now use are the heavy duty ones from Hafele. They are full extension and are capable of taking up to 227 kg so are ideal for this application. As you can see I make up a platform for the runners to allow the 'cabinets' to sit on then I can level them with shims and makes them easier to fit rather than having to line up screw holes while supporting a heavy unit. These are the ones I use: http://www.hafele.co.uk/shop/p/accuride ... 96199/8630
They are also cheaper than buying the pull out larder units I used to use. HTH.
 
Thanks for that Alan. When you have a runner at the top, presumably to augment stability, do you use the same type, and fix it directly to the top of you pull-out unit?
 
Yes Mike, I make a 'H' shaped bracket out of timber and mount the runner to that and the top of the slide out. This method makes it an easy job to slide the slide out in and then screw the bracket into the top of the unit. I would use a cheaper runner for the top but they don't seem available over a certain length unfortunately.
Been busy today after my mishap with the doors, they turned out ok.

I started work on the cabinets and got the frames and back panels made.

I got the bases cut out and a couple of the shelves.

Should get these done on Monday with a bit of luck. :D
 
I got started on assembling the pull outs today. I shall fit the back panels once they are sprayed.
 
Thanks Erich, I am just hoping it looks as good in place once it is scribed in. I have made a start on the finishing so there is not much to show at the moment as it is all dismantled. I am on another job tomorrow so will get back to this on Thursday.
 
Well at long last I got these fitted today! My customer works so I had to fit around her shifts. It took my assistant and I all day to fit them but I think they went in well in the end. Customer was very happy with them and that's what matters. ;)

I made some generic handles for them as she hasn't made her mind up what she want's.
Of course she wanted to try it out for size. :lol:

The last door had to be on hinges to allow access around the corner.

I was happy with the colour match which wasn't too bad. (Looks lighter on the photo) I can now get my workshop back. :lol:
 
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