Modifying wardrobes...

[lymmranger]

Will adjustable kitchen base unit legs take the weight of a double base unit?

or should I beef up the base first?

I need to raise the units by 8inches

 

[phatboy]

You want to fit kitchen unit legs to a wardrobe?

For a double unit (so approx 100cm x 55cm) a leg at each corner and one in the middle should do it, as long as the unit is screwed to the wall.

The legs can take a large down force, but a slight sideways and they collapse!

 

[Trazor]

Simple enough to make a frame 8" high, to sit the wardrobe on.

 

[lymmranger]

You want to fit kitchen unit legs to a wardrobe?

For a double unit (so approx 100cm x 55cm) a leg at each corner and one in the middle should do it, as long as the unit is screwed to the wall.

The legs can take a large down force, but a slight sideways and they collapse!

Thanks that was the answer I was hoping for!!!!

..........after all they are used on larder type units which take a similar weight

 

[lymmranger]

Simple enough to make a frame 8" high, to sit the wardrobe on.

..........I usually do build a frame, but this time I was hoping to keep the whole thing more simple and easier to adjust (wobbly floor!)

 

[foxhole]

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/20049538/

 

[lymmranger]

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/20049538/

How much

.......seriously though - I am building up approx. 8inch so that I can fit skirting board to match rest of room so nice though those are I think I will stick to cheaper plastic ones!

.........this post was just to confirm that it would work,

thanks everyone

 

[foxhole]

Only if you fix wardrobe to wall any movement and plastic will snap like carrots.
Sorry if you found £11 expensive, thought Scrooge was only in Dickens novels.

 

[gregers]

if your raising it to install skirts and you want to raise it 8 inches then just get a couple of lengths of 4x2 and sit the wardrobe on them and fix the skirts to the timber.make sure you fix the wardrobe to the wall.
seems like your over complicating something that really doesnt need to be m8 .

 

[foxhole]

if your raising it to install skirts and you want to raise it 8 inches then just get a couple of lengths of 4x2 and sit the wardrobe on them and fix the skirts to the timber.make sure you fix the wardrobe to the wall.
seems like your over complicating something that really doesnt need to be m8 .

Maybe we need a sticky that states tell us the problem not ''your problem with your solution?

 

[lymmranger]

if your raising it to install skirts and you want to raise it 8 inches then just get a couple of lengths of 4x2 and sit the wardrobe on them and fix the skirts to the timber.make sure you fix the wardrobe to the wall.
seems like your over complicating something that really doesnt need to be m8 .

Thanks for your input but as I explained above the floor is badly out of level

building a plinth type structure would require serious packing and fiddling

......this is why I was hoping adjustable feet would work

 

[lymmranger]

Only if you fix wardrobe to wall any movement and plastic will snap like carrots.
Sorry if you found £11 expensive, thought Scrooge was only in Dickens novels.

Ah but at 5 per unit, on a run of 4 units I would require 20!

and £11 x 20 equals £211

and they are going to be covered with skirting board

I will of course be "firmly" fixing everything to the wall

 

[phatboy]

Only if you fix wardrobe to wall any movement and plastic will snap like carrots.
Sorry if you found £11 expensive, thought Scrooge was only in Dickens novels.

Ah but at 5 per unit, on a run of 4 units I would require 20!

and £11 x 20 equals £211

and they are going to be covered with skirting board

I will of course be "firmly" fixing everything to the wall

The price was for a pack of 4. But anyway as they are not adjustable, they do not do what you need them to anyway, so the kitchen ones will be a lot better!

 

[foxhole]

You could do it with 3 packs £33.
They are adjustable Gregers.
No mention of more than one unit, if only you had provided accurate info.

 

[gregers]

if your levels are so badly out.your skirtings are going to look really good