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Swivelling cupboards ?

Postby RogerS » 24 Sep 2020, 10:02

We already have these in place.

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(Bit of nifty work turning one of them upside down otherwise we'd have needed a stepladder to open the top one!)

We have this to box in somehow.

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Originally Chief Designer had agreed that a simple shaker style cupboard (painted) would suffice. But she now thinks that it will stick out like a sore thumb (and I have to admit, I agree). So the plan is to fit another stack of those cupboards minus the 300mm wide stack on the right (curved units now bought and so no going back).

Problem is that consumer unit. That's not going to be moved but the access flap to the MCB's etc is dead inline with the top of one carcass and the bottom of the other...not ideal. :( Two options...

1) lower the plinth so that the flap now can be accessed via a cutout in just the one carcass. Downside is access to the actual consumer unit for any work in the future. And emptying the curved unit of stored stuff to get to the cutout.

2) Conceal some castors inside the plinth, fit a piano hinge all the way down the RH side of the carcass so that it can be swivelled out of the way to (a) work on the consumer unit (b) access the MCB's etc.

Potential pitfalls....not a perfectly flat tiled floor maybe...more than likely. Sprung castors ? Do they exist ?
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Re: Swivelling cupboards ?

Postby 9fingers » 24 Sep 2020, 10:34

I have my boiler inside a wall cupboard with some panelling above.
Day to day access is simply by opening the door but for more serious work, the whole cupboard is removed from the wall by slackening two screws and lifting completely away.

Could something similar work for you by fixing all the cupboards into a single structure and sitting it on a plinth to take the weight and a couple of wall unit clips near the top to hold it to the wall.

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Re: Swivelling cupboards ?

Postby RogerS » 24 Sep 2020, 10:48

I think that the units will be far too heavy to try and lift as a whole.

Weight-wise, the assembly will normally be sitting on those black plastic legs. They would have to go and be replaced by wheels. Ideally I'd have a trolley jack underneath !
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Re: Swivelling cupboards ?

Postby Robert » 24 Sep 2020, 11:00

Join the doors together, take out 1 top panel and bottom panel, join the carcases... make one double height cupboard?

Or will the carcase sides still be in the way?
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Re: Swivelling cupboards ?

Postby Mike G » 24 Sep 2020, 11:02

.......or put it on a plinth, such that the consumer unit falls entirely within one cupboard.
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Re: Swivelling cupboards ?

Postby RogerS » 24 Sep 2020, 12:37

Robert wrote:Join the doors together, take out 1 top panel and bottom panel, join the carcases... make one double height cupboard?


Nice idea but immediate thought is that it's not doable without making some reinforcement inside as the handle grooves are very thin. Quite a lot of butchery of the carcasses as well. Worth further study though.

Robert wrote:Or will the carcase sides still be in the way?
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I'd have to cut out a large area and we'd still have the problem of access to any wires at a later date.
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Re: Swivelling cupboards ?

Postby RogerS » 24 Sep 2020, 12:39

Mike G wrote:.......or put it on a plinth, such that the consumer unit falls entirely within one cupboard.


I think putting it on top of a plinth would stick out like a sore thumb TBH. I could lower the existing curved plinth but still have access problems to the whole consumer unit.

Food for thought though.
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Re: Swivelling cupboards ?

Postby TrimTheKing » 24 Sep 2020, 12:47

Sounds to me like you need to make it easily (re)moveable.
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Re: Swivelling cupboards ?

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Re: Swivelling cupboards ?

Postby RogerS » 24 Sep 2020, 16:19

Cncpaul wrote:As you described with one of these

https://www.merlin-industrial.co.uk/han ... ed-castors


Oooh, those look the biz, thanks.
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