Ok, alot of guys are probally wondering what the heck I was gonna do with 42 gladiator upper cabinets.
Here goes the build thread.
I had not yet built any workbenches or storage in my new garage since the new house/garage was built last year. In my last house I had built everything from wood, and I wanted to do something more modern looking in this new space and once I saw the thread for the gladiators that cheap I went for it hoping I could modify them to work out, knowing I could sell them if I didn't like them or if I don't use all of them..
My plan was to make bases out of them by bolting two together to make them 24" deep since all the bolt holes on the front/side/rear all line up. They are a little short for a counter top at 28" so I figured I would use 8" cinderblocks to lift them up to a standard 36" counter height.
When I epoxy the floor I will do the cinderblocks also to make it look built-in.
I could have used a wood base or legs easier, but I wanted them to look more as part of the garage and to not have any gap from the floor to the cabinets, to eliminate dust, animals, cleaning, etc underneath.
I set all the blocks in place and used locktite adhesive that works good on concrete to stick the blocks together and to the floor. And after I was done I stepped back and looked how they were running downhill!
oops, I forgot the floor slab slopes towards the doors for drainage. over the 18.5' of cabinet length it drops 1.5" to much to not level it out, and to much to just use shims..
That's the delima and stopping point I ran into a week ago when hoping to get this done. So I filled the blocks with gravel, and built a wooden frame that was level and poured concrete on top of the whole run of blocks to make a level base.
So it took 16 of the cabinets built upside down to make the 18.5' base section. It was definatly a pain to assemble but using a little 18v 1/4" Impact wrench and a couple different flex extentions and adapters it went pretty well.
On the "front" cabinets I have cut the backs down to leave a back behind the upper shelf. The doors will go on them for the lower half and used for double deep storage.
I will be building a countertop and backsplash to go on top of these.. The uppers will use 8 more cabinets. And that will leave me with 18 still.
I have a couple ideas in another area of the garage where I was going to put a slop sink, and may do a similar install as these with a countertop and drop-in utility or resturant sink.
The bundle of black wires in the back right of the next pic are for the in-ceiling speakers, cable tv, hdmi, ir, and ethernet that I prewired when the house was built. That gear will be going in the first cabinet.
Any comments or questions good or bad, I'd love to hear'em. Or any other specific pics wanted. (although they are crappy cell phone pics sorry, I broke my camera a while ago and haven't got a new one yet, I keep going to lowes instead.)
Here goes the build thread.
I had not yet built any workbenches or storage in my new garage since the new house/garage was built last year. In my last house I had built everything from wood, and I wanted to do something more modern looking in this new space and once I saw the thread for the gladiators that cheap I went for it hoping I could modify them to work out, knowing I could sell them if I didn't like them or if I don't use all of them..
My plan was to make bases out of them by bolting two together to make them 24" deep since all the bolt holes on the front/side/rear all line up. They are a little short for a counter top at 28" so I figured I would use 8" cinderblocks to lift them up to a standard 36" counter height.
When I epoxy the floor I will do the cinderblocks also to make it look built-in.
I could have used a wood base or legs easier, but I wanted them to look more as part of the garage and to not have any gap from the floor to the cabinets, to eliminate dust, animals, cleaning, etc underneath.
I set all the blocks in place and used locktite adhesive that works good on concrete to stick the blocks together and to the floor. And after I was done I stepped back and looked how they were running downhill!
oops, I forgot the floor slab slopes towards the doors for drainage. over the 18.5' of cabinet length it drops 1.5" to much to not level it out, and to much to just use shims..
That's the delima and stopping point I ran into a week ago when hoping to get this done. So I filled the blocks with gravel, and built a wooden frame that was level and poured concrete on top of the whole run of blocks to make a level base.
So it took 16 of the cabinets built upside down to make the 18.5' base section. It was definatly a pain to assemble but using a little 18v 1/4" Impact wrench and a couple different flex extentions and adapters it went pretty well.
On the "front" cabinets I have cut the backs down to leave a back behind the upper shelf. The doors will go on them for the lower half and used for double deep storage.
I will be building a countertop and backsplash to go on top of these.. The uppers will use 8 more cabinets. And that will leave me with 18 still.
I have a couple ideas in another area of the garage where I was going to put a slop sink, and may do a similar install as these with a countertop and drop-in utility or resturant sink.
The bundle of black wires in the back right of the next pic are for the in-ceiling speakers, cable tv, hdmi, ir, and ethernet that I prewired when the house was built. That gear will be going in the first cabinet.
Any comments or questions good or bad, I'd love to hear'em. Or any other specific pics wanted. (although they are crappy cell phone pics sorry, I broke my camera a while ago and haven't got a new one yet, I keep going to lowes instead.)
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