Here’s my dilemma- My next piece is an entertainment center in 3 pieces. One is a base cabinet for a big HDTV, 72” long, 20” high, flanked by 2 cabinets with doors, about 2’ wide by 60” high each. The whole thing will be topped with one long single top.
The problem comes where the boxes meet the floor.
I want to do short (4”) legs instead of having the whole thing meet the floor with a base molding. The floor is tile on cement slab, and fluctuates by 1/8” (and in one spot up to ¼”) back and forth across the floor.
Oh yeah, and it has to be free-standing, not built in.
So, I want short, fat, wood legs (I’ll probably do a 4 side taper) with adjustability for an uneven floor.
Suggestions? I know this has got to be a problem a few people have dealt with before. We try so hard to get table legs nice and even, and then the table goes on a wacky floor and you look like you screwed up the table
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Buy a set of levelers(adjusters), attach to each foot and voila.
If visually this presents a problem, then build faux legs to wrap (three-sided) around each foot, afterwards. Trim as necessary.
Hi Kevin ,
You know in the real world an 1/8" or so in 10 feet is not un common , nor excessive . I would only place levelers or small shims where needed . Each foot could have a tab or pad under it , but thicker where needed.
good luck
Yeah, houses aren't built to cabinetmakers' standards. You can use leg-levelers on the ends of the legs. They're readily-available hardware which screw in and out of the leg to adjust for unlevel floors. If you don't like looking at them, you can put the screw-up/screw-down function at the top of your short legs. Make the legs round in cross-section. They can be tapered, or bulbous, or just straight. Drill and tap the top, and mount a matching bolt in the cabinet carcass. You screw the whole leg up and down to adjust. A good thing about this approach is that the gap necessary for adjustment is completely hidden up underneath the cabinet.
For the bolt, you can often drill a through-hole through the cabinet bottom, and put a nut on the bolt below the bottom to secure it in place. Or you can use the same tap as for the leg and thread the bolt through the cabinet bottom.
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