I’m planning out garage storage and I have a concrete curb wall on the interior walls of my garage that are 8” high and 2” deep. I’m going to have to wall mount cabinets to get around this, and was looking at the gladiator flex system wall mounted, one tall cabinet, two base cabinets and two smaller cabinets. Anyone have experience with this system and is there any similar competitor that would work with a curb wall? I’m not looking to build my own cabinets, want something I can buy. Thanks!
Garage cabinets with concrete curb wall inside
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Spareparts
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Something like that would possibly have to be custom built, you can have the top's overhang to the rear that 2" and have extra sotrage
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Joe Reed
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If you plan on having a workbench on the cabinets just be sure the overall height is OK with you. Standard base cabinets would be too tall for that....unless you're a lot taller than me!
When my house was built the garage drywall was flush with the concrete curb and the builder covered the gap with a 1x4 for a baseboard. I made my base cabinets (really just simple plywood boxes with sliding doors) so that sat on top of that baseboard and fastened to the studs.....sized so the top was the height I wanted. That made about an 8"-9" gap to the floor.
I like that gap since I can quickly clear the floor completely for cleaning, etc. It's not wasted space since I store things like the small HF furniture dollies under there. I also built a shallow bin on small casters to hold those scraps of lumber that are too long to throw away. Makes it easy to grab a short piece when I need it.
When my house was built the garage drywall was flush with the concrete curb and the builder covered the gap with a 1x4 for a baseboard. I made my base cabinets (really just simple plywood boxes with sliding doors) so that sat on top of that baseboard and fastened to the studs.....sized so the top was the height I wanted. That made about an 8"-9" gap to the floor.
I like that gap since I can quickly clear the floor completely for cleaning, etc. It's not wasted space since I store things like the small HF furniture dollies under there. I also built a shallow bin on small casters to hold those scraps of lumber that are too long to throw away. Makes it easy to grab a short piece when I need it.
Higgins
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I’ve just set my base cabinets on the cement ledge and screw the base cabinets to the wall with cabinet screws.
This allows you room to paint under the cabinets, also allows storage space for long items ets…
Zeke
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Many garages have more of a step at the stem wall. I think 2" is negligible so I'd place the cabinets on the floor at the designed height and fill in the sides or put sheet stock back behind as already suggested. If there is access.
Let's see if this cat comes back or if that is one of those 'mention a product by name' posts that earns the poster 50 cents. Clever in not capitalizing the name brand.
Let's see if this cat comes back or if that is one of those 'mention a product by name' posts that earns the poster 50 cents. Clever in not capitalizing the name brand.
Lol definitely not a sponsored shill, just finally have a garage I can work with and want to know my options. Yea gladiator doesn’t mention their base cabinet height for the flex system so I’ll need to ask them what it is, I’m not very tall so having the base cabinets 8” off the grout as a workbench is a concern. The rails for my garage door seem to be 21” from the wall so if the cabinets were floor standing it might work out, maybe I’ll make a cardboard mock up to see the clearance with our car
SteveL
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Mine are set on a 5” stem wall and I personally like the higher counter top height.
Jakemedic
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Zeke
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And we never heard from him again.