Details of the purchase of a wardrobe, which shared the reader of our magazine, and a description of the phased assembly and installing it in the apartment.
Photo R.Shelomentsev
Since the walls are uneven, shelves, racks and guides are customized in place using an electrical hand saw. These works are not needed if the cabinet is ordered with side walls: at the factory perpendicular elements is provided
Installation of a metal positioner in profile and installation of the lower guideAttaching the vertical rack to the floorPrimary mounting of the guide drawer on the side wallAdjustment of the position of the gaps of the gaps followed by the fastening of the guide
Installing the lids of corners and heads of contractors. Operation is made at the end stageInstalling the door of the door to the upper guideAdjusting the position of the door vertically using the roller mounting screw. This allows you to level the deviations for 2-3cm
A month ago, a reader turned to the editor with us to help choose a wardrobe. We promised to do everything possible, but with one condition: he will tell us the details of the purchase and will allow you to shoot the installation process of the cabinet. That's what came out of it.
Introduction
There are no lately cheapest equipment lateral and back wardrobe-compartment walls. Therefore, the shelves are fixed directly to the walls. When drilling the walls, experienced specialists use vacuum cleaner, we wrote many times about the wardrobes, their manufacturers and about everything that is connected with this topic. Recall some details. Today there are cabinets from a steel and aluminum profile, which serves as a frame of doors. Doors can swing or move (roll back) by guides. Movement is carried out at the expense of rollers fixed on the profile. As a rule, the low rolling systems are chosen for the cabinets. In this case, the door relies on the lower guide, and the top holds the canvas in a vertical position. A good profile equipped with a high-quality rolling system, characterize: stiffness of construction; lack of screens, rattling and swing when moving; Smooth move; The presence of a lower roller with a spring outlet (this device prevents the door to fall out when it is careful with it).
The design of the cabinet is attached to an plastered brick wall with a plastic dowel with a diameter of 6mm. Metal dowels type "Drive" with a diameter of 15mm with screw ridges of the metal profile are used with screw ridges of the metal profile, various types of lamination and painting of the metal, decorating a veneer of a natural tree and, finally, anodization. Abacks of the wardrobe sash are inserted either a mirror, or a chipboard or MDF plate or a melamine plate. Sometimes buyers choose color or matte glass, but with insufficient tinting density behind it, clothes are visible. To place it inside the cabinet, the so-called storage systems are intended. They are different configurations and sizes of shelves and boxes, linen and hangers for outerwear. Internal filling most often made from chipboard covered with melamine. Moreover, most manufacturers offer "filling" from this material is cheaper if the buyer suits white. Only metallic parts are tested: guides, rods, mesh, fasteners.
On this, the common features of the cabinets end.
The assembly begins with mounting the shelves to vertical racks the fact is that this furniture is issued to order according to individual standards. Hence the huge number of options for configuration and design. Two identical cabinets, like two identical people, does not exist in nature. But there are distinctive features of products of a manufacturer. For most buyers, this is a form of a metal profile. It is easily recognized by a cabinet made by the dealers of Mr.Doors, Comandor, ECalum (Russia), Raumplus, etc.
Choice
The undemanded visible edges of the chipboard closes on the spot plastic lining. Rear edges are laminated at the request of the client Family plans . The reader who applied to us was a certain idea of the future purchase. On the family council, it was decided to establish a large closet of a compartment with mirror doors in the bedroom. Price is not more than $ 1500-2000.
Location It was selected very well in terms of planning the room and saving money resources. The distance between the door and the short wall of the bedroom is about 1m. This made it possible to establish a design in the width of the room, in a niche formed by two inner walls, and refuse lateral walls. As a result, the cabinet cost decreased by 5%.
Gabarits. . To speed up the purchase process, we recommended the owners to make approximateInstallation of the upper guide measurements alone. So the manufacturer's specialists will be able to estimate the approximate cost of the cabinet coupe before checking the measurers. The main parameters are the size of the opening, which will be overwrought by sliding doors (as the doors make the highest contribution to the project cost). In this case, the height was 3M, width - 3.75m.
Installing the attendance of primary consultation with employees of organizations offering their services, it turned out that some of them cannot manufacture a 3M height sash due to the limited length of the profile; others do not refuse to do this, but warn that the price will increase; Third offered to estimate the possibility of transporting so high panels on the stairs. The host of the hosts decided to limit the height of 2.7 m, and subsequently make over the cabinet, in the dark "pocket", highlighting of colored fluorescent lamps.
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A chipboard, not closed with melamine or veneer, looks nonethetically, in addition, there is a chance of harmful to health vapors of formaldehyde resins into the air of the room, so manufacturers offer to close the edges by plastic profile or laminate them. The finishing of white plastic profile is free. The rear edges are laminated at the request of the client. This is a paid operation. If it is carried out at the factory, it costs $ 0.8 / pound. m, if in place- $ 0.5 / m.
Sticker brushes on the sidewall profile. They protect it from damage when the door collide with each other and the side plank. The brushes are also a barrier for home dusty companies. Prices for the manufacture of one and the same cabinet from the same profile will greatly differ. One firm rated the production and installation of a cabinet with three mirror doors with a height of 270cm and 90cm wide at $ 2,500, another $ 1800, but did not accept orders for one and a half months due to a large workload. And finally, the third company after the attachment calculations in the office proposed an acceptable price of- $ 2,000 and a two-week production time, which coincided with the owners plans.
Measures . Farmers left the house, which not only found out the linear dimensions of the future cabinet, but also estimated the deviations of the walls from the vertical, and the floor from the horizontal. We note this important point. If the deviations are small (within 2-3cm per 3m), they can be controlled by adjusting the support rollers. If there is more discrepancies, the installation of side walls and a good panels with the right or left side of the opening or the manufacture of a separate cabinet is required.
Ivot has come the day of installation ...
The editorial board thanks Kardinal for help in the preparation and holding of filming, as well as Mr.Doors and Aldo.
