Thread: Cabinet maker required

How'd it work out?

Any before and after pics?

What did it end up costing?

Curious minds would like to see.

I have on occasion recessed a dishwasher into the wall.

I prefer the old 450 deep carcass over the 600 as a 600 gives a lot of dead space and loss of floor space. It does take some thought to fridge and appliance placement if you are to keep 450 universal.

Either way happy to give some advice if this is still a goer.


Dave

The Turning Cowboy

Back when I was suggesting this would likely not be a good idea - and to rip it out and start again afresh - ONE of the reasons I didn't explain...for that particular position / suggestion, was vermin (Mice and cockroaches etc).

The old timber framed and ply clad cupboards of yester-year tend not to be well sealed against the ingress of cockroaches and mice etc...

I was thinking about this coz we'd recently returned from the beach house up the coast and hadn't been there for ~6 months and this place built back in the 70s has those timber framed & ply lined type cupboards. Being seldom used except the odd holiday they are still in serviceable condition

Last time there - we'd left a 1 liter long life milk carton (the vacuum foil lined type) in the cupboard for "emergency's"...(cup of tea or coffe when passing thru.

We do tend to leave tinned and hard tack food in case we are in the neighborhood and drop in just for a nights kip on the way home from trips further afeild or we just want a getaway for a couple days without any forward planning!

Well a mouse got into the cupboards and chewed its way thru the carton - causing the milk to all leak out!

Things inside the cupboard were a damn sour mouldy mess by the time we got there - including a zillion large 2 inch plus bush cockroaches attracted to the mouldy green smelly mess!.

Of course SWMTSWTP - is pretty fastidious about her kitchen and houseproud.... so all her 'holiday' time spent there was spent cleaning out and disinfecting the cupboards, washing every plate bowl knife etc to get rid of germs from cockroach feet and so it goes (not to mention laying baiots and traps for mice and spraying (cocky bombs) for roaches etc etc...

Some holiday! (For her - I went fishing).

But this I guess was partly behind my suggestion to abandon the old cupboards - they just aren't anywhere near as effective at keeping things clean and keeping the baddies out....

We could quite happily all watch black and white TV today if we didn't want to accept "progress"...

I just tend to still think that old cupboards are outdated for various reasons....

Of course its the OP's own personal decision, what to do - but as a cabbie - when I see things like this example it reminds me that part of the job is giving people the best possible advice.

After that - its up to them what they choose to do.

I'm not that personally invested into the outcome / result, but stand by what i think was generally good advice... from a cabbie about the original question.

Perhaps it will help others one day in a similar situation.

Cheers

Originally Posted by Timless Timber

Well a mouse got into the cupboards and chewed its way thru the carton - causing the milk to all leak out!

Things inside the cupboard were a damn sour mouldy mess by the time we got there - including a zillion large 2 inch plus bush cockroaches attracted to the mouldy green smelly mess!.



Cheers

YUCK...... Any pics of the roaches? They sound interesting. 2 inch?

Don't mention dishwashers and kitchens to ..... :whisper:

Originally Posted by tea lady

Don't mention dishwashers and kitchens to ..... :whisper:

Oh yeah .... Tell me more


Dave

The Turning Cowboy