Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Built in robes 5Jun 21, 2019 12:22 pm For the bulkhead size, find a cabinet-maker (or whatever the correct term is for people who make the WIR's) and ask what they can do. Some can only do doors to a height of ~1800mm, others can go way larger, it depends on their suppliers and what type of doors you want (we used sliding because it takes less space plus one of them can be a mirror). The less bulkhead you have, the more easily accessed storage for rarely-used stuff. We deleted all our relatively-useless built-ins, they were just a single hanger-rail & a stack of 4 drawers whereas we had 3m to 3.5m of wardrobe width to play with. I was surprised they gave us back close to $1500 per room, given how simplistic it was. We ended-up paying Betta ~$17k to do the cabinetry but it was a LOT of cabinetry; soft-close drawers, couple of sets of drawers in each built-in (4 bedrooms with built-ins), large pantry with sliding doors, sliding glass or mirror doors to 4 beds, quite a large WIR with 8 metre-wide 'modules' & 3 of those being metre-wide drawers, and a neat under-stair set of drawers & triangular cupboard doors & built-in wine-rack inside the under-stairs cupboard. Oh, and one neat thing we had them do which didn't cost us much, and which you might consider if you've got kids of studying age in any of those bedrooms, is a built-in desk which I think looks quite neat (and have been using myself a lot of late): Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Built in robes 6Jun 25, 2019 5:57 pm Hi guys thanks for the replys Just an update I asked the builder about how it works with them doing the built ins This is the response I got 'We add a NIB wall at the end of your provision and the future robe installer will complete the bulkhead. The $800 includes the robe, shelf & rail, as well as the NIB wall ending.' If he's talking about a nib wall does this mean the robe wouldn't be the full length of the wall? Also having the bulkbead done later does this make sense? Wouldn't having it done with the build look neater with the cornices etc? DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair We purchased a 1960s property that is on timber stumps mostly, and a newer section is on concrete stumps. We had a building inspection initially and they reported some… 0 9631 Strong enough for what? For linen, absolutely. To climb on, no. I've got similar shelving in my garage and it holds a decent amount of weight. 900 wide shelves will carry… 1 2972 Probably a not bad thing to mention particle board should in case anyone else reading this got the two confused. 6 3523 |