Keeping me busy

[chippy1970]

I've been busy trying to get this lot finished for Christmas for a customer. It's all in moisture resistant mdf with solid beech face frames. Theres doors still to finish and my painter started painting today.

The sketch up drawing below shows the rough plan but shelf positions did change.

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[RogerS]

Looking very nice, Chippy. Looks as if you had the room all to yourself....makes life so much easier!

And another fan of the Green'n'Grey

 

[9fingers]

How are you doing the lighting please? I like the look of that and I've something similar to light to display nick knacks and the like in some of my barrister units.

TIA

Bob

 

[chippy1970]

Looking very nice, Chippy. Looks as if you had the room all to yourself....makes life so much easier!

And another fan of the Green'n'Grey

I'd have Festool underpants if they made them lol.

The people are living there but the house is huge. That's a massive kitchen extension so loads of room. I cleared out today so my painter can start.

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[chippy1970]

How are you doing the lighting please? I like the look of that and I've something similar to light to display nick knacks and the like in some of my barrister units.

TIA

Bob

Hi Bob

It's led tape. The sparks I know (who got me the job) gets it made up to size at the wholesalers. They cut it to length then solder a wire on each one. The wire then runs down the cavities between each unit and connects to a driver. It's all 12v you can get 24v but he thought that would be too bright.

Chris

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[9fingers]

How are you doing the lighting please? I like the look of that and I've something similar to light to display nick knacks and the like in some of my barrister units.

TIA

Bob

Hi Bob

It's led tape. The sparks I know (who got me the job) gets it made up to size at the wholesalers. They cut it to length then solder a wire on each one. The wire then runs down the cavities between each unit and connects to a driver. It's all 12v you can get 24v but he thought that would be too bright.

Chris

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Thanks Chris,
I know the stuff. I'm using the three colour variant a Christmas decorations around windows. So do you have a strip right across the front underside of the shelf or some other method?

Bob

Bob

 

[chippy1970]

How are you doing the lighting please? I like the look of that and I've something similar to light to display nick knacks and the like in some of my barrister units.

TIA

Bob

Hi Bob

It's led tape. The sparks I know (who got me the job) gets it made up to size at the wholesalers. They cut it to length then solder a wire on each one. The wire then runs down the cavities between each unit and connects to a driver. It's all 12v you can get 24v but he thought that would be too bright.

Chris

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Thanks Chris,
I know the stuff. I'm using the three colour variant a Christmas decorations around windows. So do you have a strip right across the front underside of the shelf or some other method?

Bob

Bob

Bob

The shelves are 18mm MDF with 20 x 44 beech dominoed to the front edge. That leaves 26mm of beech below the MDF. He just stuck a length of the tape on the back of the beech which was about an inch short of the length of the shelf.

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[Rod]

Nice work and love the lighting too.

Rod

 

[9fingers]

Thanks Chris,

I'll be pinching that method methinks!

Cheers

Bob

 

[chippy1970]

Finished off the doors today , trimmed them all to the same size with a router. Cut all the 35mm holes and pinned on some panel moulding.

Just have to wait for my painter to finish then I can get back and finish everything and get paid

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[Commander]

Very nicely done! Those look brilliant!

 

[Wizard9999]

They look superb!

I hope you don't mind if I ask a few questions about how you fit them. Are they on what I would call levelling feet (those ones that screw in and out of an insert in the base of the unit? If not, how do you get them level?
The orange spacers up the side of the unit on one of the pictures, what are these? Are they there just to get the spacing from the wall consistent, or are they actually fixing it to the wall?

Sorry if the questions are a bit basic and uninformed.

Merry Christmas!

Terry.

 

[chippy1970]

They look superb!

I hope you don't mind if I ask a few questions about how you fit them. Are they on what I would call levelling feet (those ones that screw in and out of an insert in the base of the unit? If not, how do you get them level?
The orange spacers up the side of the unit on one of the pictures, what are these? Are they there just to get the spacing from the wall consistent, or are they actually fixing it to the wall?

Sorry if the questions are a bit basic and uninformed.

Merry Christmas!

Terry.

Merry Christmas Terry

Yeah the units have standard plastic telescopic legs from Howdens, I then cut them down a bit. The gap under the units is only 80mm with the downstand of the face frame the plinth is only around 50 to 60mm.

The orange doo dads are called space plugs invented by a guy on another forum I'm on. You can buy them in toolstation and screwfix and a few other places. You drill through what you're fixing into the wall ,insert your wall plug them feed the screw through the spaceplug. Tighten the screw after winding the spaceplug out to fill the gap. Very handy little things.

http://www.space-plug.com/

Hopefully when the doors dry I will fit them on Wednesday and take some better pictures of the finished job.

Chris

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[RogerS]

I like those Space-Plugs. Beats forever trimming down oddments of ply and MDF and then pocket screwing.

Christmas morning....off to the workshop...that's the right way to spend Christmas!

 

[Wizard9999]

They look superb!

I hope you don't mind if I ask a few questions about how you fit them. Are they on what I would call levelling feet (those ones that screw in and out of an insert in the base of the unit? If not, how do you get them level?
The orange spacers up the side of the unit on one of the pictures, what are these? Are they there just to get the spacing from the wall consistent, or are they actually fixing it to the wall?

Sorry if the questions are a bit basic and uninformed.

Merry Christmas!

Terry.

Merry Christmas Terry

Yeah the units have standard plastic telescopic legs from Howdens, I then cut them down a bit. The gap under the units is only 80mm with the downstand of the face frame the plinth is only around 50 to 60mm.

The orange doo dads are called space plugs invented by a guy on another forum I'm on. You can buy them in toolstation and screwfix and a few other places. You drill through what you're fixing into the wall ,insert your wall plug them feed the screw through the spaceplug. Tighten the screw after winding the spaceplug out to fill the gap. Very handy little things.

http://www.space-plug.com/

Hopefully when the doors dry I will fit them on Wednesday and take some better pictures of the finished job.

Chris

Thanks Chris, those Space Plugs look very clever!

 

[chippy1970]

Yeah they're meant for kitchen fitting but are handy for loads of jobs.

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[Pinch]

Lovely work Chris!

 

[chippy1970]

All done

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[Wizard9999]

Very nice indeed! Sure your client is extremely pleased with those.

Hope you don't mind me asking one last novice question. If I understand correctly the units are made of MDF with the face frame in beech and the whole unit painted. If so, is the use of beech, rather than MDF, for the face frame merely to avoid having to paint the edge of the MDF or is it because it will be more robust to future bangs and knocks in use?

Terry.

 

[chippy1970]

Very nice indeed! Sure your client is extremely pleased with those.

Hope you don't mind me asking one last novice question. If I understand correctly the units are made of MDF with the face frame in beech and the whole unit painted. If so, is the use of beech, rather than MDF, for the face frame merely to avoid having to paint the edge of the MDF or is it because it will be more robust to future bangs and knocks in use?

Terry.

Yeah the customer loves them

Yeah that was the main reason for using beech, so that it would take the odd knock. I've not worked with beech before and it was really nice to machine. Also it keeps a nice crisp edge, I just gave most edges a slight swipe with sand paper to take off the arris and that's all.

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[AndyP]

Yeah the customer loves them

So do I

 

[will1983]

Looks great Chippy, I've got some similar units to make for in my dining room so I've shamelessly pinched a few of your ideas.

Will

 

[TrimTheKing]

Very nice indeed.

Cheers
Mark

 

[chippy1970]

Looks great Chippy, I've got some similar units to make for in my dining room so I've shamelessly pinched a few of your ideas.

Will

Not a problem

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[9fingers]

Chris,

I'm just about to install my LED strips. they have an adhesive on the back and about 8mm wide.

I'm wondering if it will be best to seal the back of the routed channel that they will go into with some PU varnish or similar or just go onto bare wood (ash). I really don't want them peeling off over time.
My strips are about a metre long and I can really only secure the ends.

Any words of wisdom/experience would be most welcome.

TIA

Bob

 

[chippy1970]

Chris,

I'm just about to install my LED strips. they have an adhesive on the back and about 8mm wide.

I'm wondering if it will be best to seal the back of the routed channel that they will go into with some PU varnish or similar or just go onto bare wood (ash). I really don't want them peeling off over time.
My strips are about a metre long and I can really only secure the ends.

Any words of wisdom/experience would be most welcome.

TIA

Bob

Bob,

Just spotted this.

Those LEDs were just stuck on bare steamed beech before painting. I've been back to do more work there and I've not noticed any peeling off. If you were worried I suppose you could seal the surface first.

Chris

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[9fingers]

Thanks Chris.
I'll give it a go on bare wood and see how it goes. If there is a problem later I can always get in there with the hot melt gun. The location cannot be seen in normal use.

Bob