I'm worling on a job now that should have been simple but has become more complicated. Trying to get three 15x30 top cabinets and45x30 worth of base cabinets hung in a very small kitchen. The kitchen wall is plaster on medium to high gauge chicken wire mesh. The building is one the old fireproof ones, post war, lots of concrete - and all these weird construction quirks. One of those quirks is that the wall in the kitchen has no structural studs. Period. There are horizontal studs that have been laid into the plaster and into which previous cabinets have been hung - but these are not themselves attached to any vertical wood work. Unfortunately even these wont help me because the cabinets need to be near flush with a concrete soffit near the ceiling, and the ikea sektion cabinets hang from the top of the cabinet, where there isnt even a horizontal false stud. The plaster is very firm stuff and there are the remnants of old anchors - not even toggles - where someone once hung a cabinet set successfully. But that seems like an awful idea. Anyone encountered this problem before?
btw - same problem with the base cabinets. They need to be hung from a supporting rod on the wall - and there. Is only plaster at the point where they would be hung as well. And they will be supporting a, albeit tiny, quartz countertop.
I will post pictures later today - but the problem is as straightforward as described.
Submitted July 01, 2015 at 05:23PM by Gasdark http://ift.tt/1JujpiO
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