Just a quick ? When installing cabinets and a filler is needed to fill in the gap or set the drawer base away from the wall trim do you?
A. Make the filler flush with the cabinet frame? or..
B. Hold the filler out so it is flush with the drawer and doors?
I always seem to do (A) because it is faster and easier. I think (B) give a more unified flowing apperance but takes more time. Just wondered what the consensus was.
Thanks Jeff
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That IMHO would depend on the style of cabinet...I usually make them flush with doors. But I do mostly 32mm stuff.
Bud
Are the cabinet doors a) faceframe or b) full overlay?
a) Faceframe = Flush with faceframe.
b) Full overlay = Flush with doors.
F
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If it is full overlay, you should be supplied with both a filler and an overlay.
Eric[email protected]
It's Never Too Late To Become What You Might Have Been
Thanks guys:
These are 32mm or European style cabs with full overlay. They are supplied with only a 1x3x30 filler, so you have to make a backer or L to hold filler flush with doors. Thanks again.
Jeff
like Eric said ...
depends on the cab's ...
99.99% of the time it's flush ...
and with full overlay doors U should have a full overlay filler.
and I love then the full overlay fillers "overlay's" aren't the same length as the doors ...
ahhhhh .....
Oh well. Probably only drives me nuts ...
BTW ...
"I always seem to do (A) because it is faster and easier."
Stop thinking like that when yer setting cab's!
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Only thing better is when the overlay comes attatched to the filler with one thousand staples exactly where it needs to be ripped.[email protected]
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that too!
they hate us at the overlay filler factory ....
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
On frameless cabinets, go with a filler flush with the door/drawer face. This is especially true with uppers. That way the crown will project out past the front of the door face, not at the face of the cabinet. My top fillers for uppers project 1 1/4"-1 1/2" from the face of the cabinet, then the crown is applied to this.
On Traditional/face frame, fillers flush with cabinet face