need ideas for hanging bathroom vanity off the floor 1 foot without legs. customer is from europe and this how its there. need ideas how to support cabinets that are 22″ deep by 72″ wide with only 1 side wall.
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Gonna need to custom build... as I am unaware of a stock vanity that is designed for this.
It'd pull off the wall without SUBSTANTIAL modifications... and if you did all of those modifications... you may as well do custom.
I've never hung a cabinet off the floor. Off the wall, yes, but hanging off the floor would entail creating a huge hole. In those situations I just go to the level below and hang it off the ceiling. Much easier.
As for hanging it off the wall, 12" above the floor, just hang it as though it was an upper wall cabinet. But since it basically has twice the depth of a standard wall cabinet, you need to incorporate an angled support under the cabinet extending to the half-depth point. It would therefore extend down from the centerline of the cabinet to the corner where the wall meets the floor. If you had a wall on bothe sides you could simply screw it to the side walls for support to prevent it rotating off the wall.
Since you do have one side wall, the angled support below would only have to extend half the length of the unit. It might look better and be less conspicuous if it ran the full length though.
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What about using one of those bracket systems that they use for hanging upper cabinets? It's basically a pair of "nesting" brackets where one mounts on the carcass & the other mounts on the wall at a stud location. You lift the carcass up & then lower it, so the two brackets interlock. You can still move the carcass from side to side to get the alignment correct and then simply secure it with a screw through the back into the wall. You would probably have to do a custom carcass fro the strength and short height.
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