cabinet question

[southernlad]

Hi chaps, quick question - Got my visit from the FLO coming up and need to get my cabinet in place. The place I have chosen complies with their rules about placement with regard to wall material and keeping it out of sight. Only problem is there's a skirting board in the way. Can I just mount the cab above this (not touching the floor) or am I gonna have to chop a lump out of it (not ideal)?

 

Any ideas appreciated.

 

cheers

Dan

[Catamong]

Of course you can.

 

Cat.

[BSA Shaun]

I have my cabinet ast on 2 house brick to clear the skirting board, it is then rawl bolted into the wall.

 

You could hang off it and not move it at all.

 

FLO was fine with it.

[southernlad]

Cheers, thought that was the case, just wanted to make sure!

[Baldrick]

I worked around this problem by cutting a section of ply (of the thickness as the skirting board), in the shape as the back panel of the cabinet. It basically serves as a wedge between cabinet and wall, thus allowing me to bolt the cabinet to the floor. I then drilled straight through the ply into the masonry. It is rock solid, and the FEO was perfectly happy.

[pbickerd]

I cut a chunk out of my skirting board

[Maiden22]

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Edited December 3, 2008 by Maiden22

[Klunk]

Mine's 'floating' above the skirting in the same fashion. No bother at all getting it accepted.

So long as it's securely attached to the fabric of the dwelling, and out of sight of casual visitors (although why it should matter whether they're wearing a tie or not I don't know), it's fine.

 

The gap underneath makes a handy storage for a box of cartridges as well, which in our gaff are about the same height as the skirting.

[kev 1]

Mine is about 4 foot off the floor,bolted to wall,FAO was happy with it...........

[Imperfection]

I fitted mine literally an hour ago! I used a tennon saw to cut a section of skirting out,drilled the holes then wound the rawl bolts in with a socket wrench.

 

Was a pain though cos i bought 14mm rawl bolts and had to borrow a matching masonry drill cos mine dont go that big.Then discovered the chuck on my drill isnt big enough for the masonry bit so borrowed my neighbours! So be prepared and get the right tools beforehand...unlike me!

[southernlad]

Thanks for all your replies, like the plywood behind the cab idea, good solution . Probably best to fix it to the floor too, then there's less likelihood of a problem with the FLO so will use that idea, cheers!

[Paladin]

I went the same way as Baldrick, but in a corner securing to two walls and the floor.

[vole]

Mine is laid flat on the floor of the loft bolted to the wall. Might stack another on top of it at some point.

[THEINVISIBLESCARECROW]

Off the floor & you have a small storage space.

[ferretman]

mine is bolted above skerting bord.

[sniperdaz]

mines 3 foot above the floor!!! seriosly you couldnt get a jack under that..

[PERCE]

mines 3 foot above the floor!!! seriosly you couldnt get a jack under that..

 

Were there's a will there's a way.

I actually think a lot of this is a little bit daft, no matter how good the fixings are etc it's all down to what they're fixed to. If someone was hell bent on having it away with your cabinet they'd come tooled up for the job & either pull it off the wall or cut into it. There's plenty of cordless tools on the market that'll do either, I bet a handy lad with a bolster & a bar would get most cabinets off a wall without too much effort. I used to live in a Barrett house, there wasn't a solid wall inside the house, wood frames stuffed with straw, plod made me screw my box to the floor boards, you could have pulled it up with nowt much more than a screwdriver.

In my opinion all a cabinet does is deter the opportunist. How many of us make a serious effort at putting the cabinet keys in a safe place?

[bazguevara]

I'm in the process of making a box to go under my new cabinet (which will be inside a built in cupboard) so that the cabinet door will be able to open over the skirting board which runs underneath the cupboard door (hard to explain). Anyway, I've spoken to a mate who's a copper and he said that it would all be fine.

As for keeping my keys in a safe place... I'm very serious about it! Not only are they instantly recognisable to a burglar because of the shape, the fiance's also got a hell of a temper on her sometimes!