Bob Schmidt shows you how to take a factory built cabinet and some simple hardware to make a bookcase door.
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when you are doing any project you kind of look
forward to something different than usual
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in this basement project
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we have this cabinet here. Let's get to work.
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The neat thing that this cabinet does is
it allows access to a storage area
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that is back behind it without the use of a door
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let me show you how we did that. Now to
make this cabinet move, all we did was use
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a simple pocket door track
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and the pocket door wheels and hardware
associated with it. Now what I did was
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take a factory built cabinet
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I added a plywood gusset to the side
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uh... making sure that I screwed it at all
the possible points that I possibly
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could, to make this as strong as possible
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then above the top here
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I anchored in two by fours
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that went across
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to (a) anchor our guide wheels to the track and (b) anchor
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this little guide wheel along the back side so that when you push the cabinet in
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the back wheels didn't come up off the track
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one of the major issues we had
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was that this is a concrete basement floor
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it's not perfectly level
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as a matter of fact it actually runs
uphill from where the carpet covers the
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bottom, and it runs uphill toward the outside walls, in both directions
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now what I did was when I put the tracks in
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I actually built my frame so that it went up about an 1/8 of an inch per foot
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to allow the base of this cabinet to have enough clearance to get back
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without being obstructed by hitting
the floor
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I used a few of the simple bullet type
catches
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where the wheels roll over the outside and
snap it
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to temporarily hold the thing
closed until you get the permanent latches on
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now I placed the slide latches in a discreet area, so that as the front cabinet doors
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are open it's kind of difficult to see
them unless you are looking straight up
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and basically here they are
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they're anchored up underneath the bottom
so that you can't see it because of this
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little lip here
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our customer also wanted a key lock on it
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to keep his kids out during certain seasons of the year. Now I'm going to
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take a few random shots of this track
that I've built, and the hardware and how
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the wheels work and stuff like that
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in case I didn't answer some of your
questions, or show it close enough
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we anchored our framing
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to the uh...
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front of the trim here along with the track hardware
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just to make sure that we had a nice secure tight fit
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we built a couple of simple tracks and gusset plates to go ahead and run our
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pocket door hardware track to. As you can see we just added some simple two-by-fours
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in between the plywood gussets
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which is what we anchored the
pocket door track wheels to
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and the guide wheel to keep the back wheel from lifting up. Now, everything I used to do this
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project
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was purchased from my local box store
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I didn't have to go buy any specialty
hardware or anything like that at all
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now these tracks for these pocket door tracks are actually designed and
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engineered to hold a hundred and fifty pounds
each
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so we're up to about three hundred pounds of capacity, with the cabinet included
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the cabinets may be between eighty and a hundred pounds
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so you could overload this cabinet
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I mean if you want to stack your gold bullion somewhere, stack it somewhere else
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in the hidden room
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other than that I'm Bob Schmidt with HomeRemodelWorkshop... thanks for
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watching and I'm out.