Ken Stevens
09-09-2007, 12:36 PM
My apologies if this is not the right forum for this question, but no others seemed as appropriate.
I have a commercially built entertainment center which has large folding doors. When closed there are obvious gaps as shown in the first attachment. The service personnel said the unit was not level, thus accounting for the gaps. In the figure, he pushed up at point A and sure enough the gaps lessened. He could not level it (only one person and the unit weights in excess of 150-175 pounds (the top part--bottom equally heavy).
So today, with help of family, we attempted to level and then shim the unit. We first made the bottom unit perfectly level. No effect on the gaps in the doors. We then put a shim under the left side (indicated in photo) and this improved the gap but now the upper unit sits at an angle and it is out of level.
You guys (some of you) put in cabinets like this all the time...what would you suggest to correct the gaps in the doors....if these can be corrected at all.
I hope I have supplied enough information for an opinion and I thank you for any suggestions.
I had to degrade pix quality to meet file size limits but it seems like you can tell what is going on. Fig1 shows gaps. Fig 2 shows full unit in operation (doors open). Fig 3 shows doors partly open and indicated cantilevel load on hinges (lower hinge shown in Fig 4).
Ken
I have a commercially built entertainment center which has large folding doors. When closed there are obvious gaps as shown in the first attachment. The service personnel said the unit was not level, thus accounting for the gaps. In the figure, he pushed up at point A and sure enough the gaps lessened. He could not level it (only one person and the unit weights in excess of 150-175 pounds (the top part--bottom equally heavy).
So today, with help of family, we attempted to level and then shim the unit. We first made the bottom unit perfectly level. No effect on the gaps in the doors. We then put a shim under the left side (indicated in photo) and this improved the gap but now the upper unit sits at an angle and it is out of level.
You guys (some of you) put in cabinets like this all the time...what would you suggest to correct the gaps in the doors....if these can be corrected at all.
I hope I have supplied enough information for an opinion and I thank you for any suggestions.
I had to degrade pix quality to meet file size limits but it seems like you can tell what is going on. Fig1 shows gaps. Fig 2 shows full unit in operation (doors open). Fig 3 shows doors partly open and indicated cantilevel load on hinges (lower hinge shown in Fig 4).
Ken