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kp1512 GDPR opt-out	Small Fitted Wardrobes Jun 5^th, 2007, 2:20pm Guys Im interesting in having a go at making a fitted wardrobe..noting huge! max double door! Been doing a fair bit of reading etc..and also have an existing one in another room which was fitted few years back by the so called "rip off experts!" Are there any other guides \ how to \ tips on this? KP
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TIMBA-WOLF Board Moderator Offline Timba-Wolf..... Var@*sh, should be banned!! Posts: 7158 Total Thanks: 15 For This Post: 0 KENT,(under a tree!!!!) United Kingdom Gender: Trade: Joiner	Re: Small Fitted Wardrobes Reply #1 - Jun 5^th, 2007, 3:04pm tips in terms of what, making the wardrobe, fitting it or ???
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kp1512 GDPR opt-out Total Thanks: 15 For This Post: 0	Re: Small Fitted Wardrobes Reply #2 - Jun 5^th, 2007, 3:38pm Sorry....i mean in terms of layout, best practices etc?....I dont just want to copy what I have as I may be just redoing work that may not be the best way to do it... Just thought if there was a kind of "how to" guide
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TIMBA-WOLF Board Moderator Offline Timba-Wolf..... Var@*sh, should be banned!! Posts: 7158 Total Thanks: 15 For This Post: 0 KENT,(under a tree!!!!) United Kingdom Gender: Trade: Joiner	Re: Small Fitted Wardrobes Reply #3 - Jun 5^th, 2007, 3:46pm if you mean in terms of layout of the doors, shelving, hanging rails etc, that is all down to your own requirements!! just made/fitted some that due to being made at 8 feet high, i could get away with a small top shelf, 2 hanging rails and a shoe rack on the bottom..
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Reply #4 - Jun 5^th, 2007, 4:11pm

if your planning fitted type wardrobes with flush doors and invisible hinges you will be better to desighn without a visible frame as such

if you have a shelve with a hanging rail underneath the shelve will have to be extremly stong to support all but the shortest rail if its 15mm laminate
i wouldnt idealy not exceede 2ft unsuported on a rail and would want a partition if its laminate at the 2ft mark
or a central supporting bracket if its a solid framework to attach to
you can of course add a second supporting bracket if its over 4ft span

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kp1512 GDPR opt-out Total Thanks: 10 For This Post: 0	Re: Small Fitted Wardrobes Reply #5 - Jun 5^th, 2007, 4:18pm BA and Wolf Thanks. I was planning it to be a 2 door wardrobe with the sliding mirror door mechanism. The actually shelving inside was going to be using the veneered beech effect material with battons as supports fixed to the wall and the shelf top........ KP
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kp1512 GDPR opt-out Total Thanks: 10 For This Post: 0	Re: Small Fitted Wardrobes Reply #6 - Jun 8^th, 2007, 1:21pm Hi Guys These are my current drobes! Can any of you see anything wrong with them?..I mean internals The draws (last pic) were first stuck to the walls but we taken them down so Obv with no back they shake like a bitch...so I need to get some thick material to fix it in place
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TIMBA-WOLF Board Moderator Offline Timba-Wolf..... Var@*sh, should be banned!! Posts: 7158 Total Thanks: 15 For This Post: 0 KENT,(under a tree!!!!) United Kingdom Gender: Trade: Joiner	Re: Small Fitted Wardrobes Reply #7 - Jun 8^th, 2007, 3:08pm the use of KD (knock down) blocks alone to build does not make for a rigid structure at all!
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big_all Global Moderator Trade Member Author Offline heeelllooo Posts: 5596 Total Thanks: 10 For This Post: 0 Gender: Trade: Joiner	Re: Small Fitted Wardrobes Reply #8 - Jun 8^th, 2007, 3:10pm not 100% shure what the question refers to are you asking if we can see anything wrong !!! or whether it can be designed better!! or just general comments using the present wardrobe as a plan to work to!!!!!
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Reply #9 - Jun 8^th, 2007, 5:02pm

Lol...Im getting good at this "dont ask what Im after" lark lol

Thats what we have now and what was made before we moved into my house.

My plan is to make another two dorr sliding and I am kind of working off this one.....BUT I dont want to screw it up if theres things obv wrong with this one?

My immediate though on the current one was why there werent battens around the whole shelf?...or am I wrong?

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Reply #10 - Jun 8^th, 2007, 11:19pm

i have been trying to rack my poor brain cell (well it is friday! Smiley

) about why i could not fully understand what i was looking at, beds in cupboards etc, till i blew up some of the pccies and found they were/are MIRROR IMAGES of the remaining bedroom!!!! Smiley

right will let you know when i have got a full in my minds eye piccy! ok!

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Re: Small Fitted Wardrobes
Reply #11 - Jun 8^th, 2007, 11:23pm

Right my questions are as follows then

1) are you using the full width of the room concerned for the wardrobe!

2) are you re-using what is in the piccies for materials!

3) how much depth is available, BEHIND the mirror door tracks that is !

4) do you want to batten the shelves, or hidden fixings, or better still NOT TO BOTHERED as the will not be on show!

5) depending upon the answer to question 1, what overall sizes are we looking at, i.e: width of both mirror doors in situ, and height o/a

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Reply #12 - Jun 10^th, 2007, 8:54pm

TIMBA-WOLF wrote on Jun 8^th, 2007, 11:23pm:

Right my questions are as follows then

1) are you using the full width of the room concerned for the wardrobe!

2) are you re-using what is in the piccies for materials!

3) how much depth is available, BEHIND the mirror door tracks that is !

4) do you want to batten the shelves, or hidden fixings, or better still NOT TO BOTHERED as the will not be on show!

5) depending upon the answer to question 1, what overall sizes are we looking at, i.e: width of both mirror doors in situ, and height o/a

Wolf

1) are you using the full width of the room concerned for the wardrobe!
Nope

2) are you re-using what is in the piccies for materials!
Nope..open to purchase new material

3) how much depth is available, BEHIND the mirror door tracks that is !
50cm

4) do you want to batten the shelves, or hidden fixings, or better still NOT TO BOTHERED as the will not be on show!

not bothered, but want it to look decent enough when open

5) depending upon the answer to question 1, what overall sizes are we looking at, i.e: width of both mirror doors in situ, and height o/a
1m80cm width, 2m30cm height

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TIMBA-WOLF Board Moderator Offline Timba-Wolf..... Var@*sh, should be banned!! Posts: 7158 Total Thanks: 15 For This Post: 0 KENT,(under a tree!!!!) United Kingdom Gender: Trade: Joiner	Re: Small Fitted Wardrobes Reply #13 - Jun 10^th, 2007, 10:28pm right, i will work on something let you know soonist!
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kp1512 GDPR opt-out Total Thanks: 15 For This Post: 0	Re: Small Fitted Wardrobes Reply #14 - Jun 11^th, 2007, 11:16am thanks buddy! really appreciate that!
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Scrit GDPR opt-out Total Thanks: 15 For This Post: 0	Re: Small Fitted Wardrobes Reply #15 - Jun 14^th, 2007, 8:51pm TIMBA-WOLF wrote on Jun 8^th, 2007, 3:08pm: the use of KD (knock down) blocks alone to build does not make for a rigid structure at all! Too true! But even a 4mm MDF back pinned and glued to the back of such a structure will increase it's rigidity immensely Scrit
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