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This document deals with the persons who construct the kitchen, cabinet, carcasses, cupboards, kickers, bulkheads, bench-tops, manufacture to fabrication, and even for some aspects of building construction. This is a story that has been written for the KitchenPages. If any offensive meaning is made to you, or taken by you the reader, it is suggested you exit this document that has offended you.
In a nutshell. Cabinet-making can be described as the manufacture, construction, and fabrication of Coffins, cabinets, carcasses and cupboards in bathrooms to kitchens, wall units, bedside furniture in bedrooms, drawers, boxes, and shelves.
To begin with. After you telephone all the different businesses in your area. After a short site call to measure your project your manufacturer will reply with a quotation. A quote will include a costing, a plan view, and should be free of charge with no obligations to buy.
You accept a quoted design from one of the manufacturers or business that quoted on your project.
A designer or workshop For-person will prepare a cutting list, and order list for special things like door handles if they are required.
A machinist, checks your design, and then cuts the white Melamine PB. After that he/she will cut any coloured materials or shortly after the ordered material arrives.
Any edging on the edges of each boards are generally adhered or fixed at this stage before the boards are assembled into a carcass or cabinet by the cabinetmaker.
The cabinetmaker, or bench employee, then assembles the carcass or cabinets according to the plan they are working from.
Decorative laminations can then be applied to any seen exposed surfaces that they are required too. Drawer boxes are then inserted. Door fronts are then fixed on the carcass and any pencil lines are removed while the unit is quickly cleaned.
The Benchtop, Kickers and Bulkheads are constructed. Being almost finished, the different parts of the project are placed into position mainly to recheck sizes and ensure every thing fits correctly.
The finished components are then separated and placed in storage ready for loading and delivery to the work site.
Cabinetmakers work in joineries making cabinets, carcasses, and cupboards. Joiners manage, and work in a joinery or workshop. Carpenters fix and build houses for Builders who manage the construction of a building. Forman or ForPerson manages a work site either within or for a whole building to an area of personal.
Today’s cabinets and carcasses range in materials, colours, and styles from timbers, metal, rock, or vinyl. Therefor domestic and commercial projects require different manufacturing styles to enable the cabinet manufacturer to complete the project on time and within the costing range.
Many cabinetmakers today get other business to provide special products or services that they do not provide. A few examples are solid timber doors to post formed bench-tops that can be purchased from other joineries which generally gives you the customer more quality. This allow manufacturers to give you, the clients a better service. Cabinetmakers then assemble all the required parts after delivery into an item or cabinet for your project. Sometimes this is a quicker system for large amounts of cabinet carcasses over a short time period.
Commercial and domestic (private) clients can relax because of the standards we have here in Australia. Work practices and health issues have improved the cabinetmaking industry over the last 10 to 20 years. Cabinet materials can now last well over 10 to 20 years with little or no maintenance. Most decorative surfaces will last well over 8 to 15 years with out colour change except for natural timbers.
Commercial and domestic customers (clients) can have their cabinets manufactured in one, if not all of three ways; The first is type is the most popular, called a module form or system and is made of separate cabinets; the second is kit-form or self-assembled unit; and the last is pre fabricated cabinet (The whole kitchen carcass or cabinet is in one piece).
Private clients generally require that personal touch of the cabinetmaker knowing their products. Kitchens and bathroom renovations can also be complex and costly if not designed correctly. This can require the experience of a builder but a carpenter joiner is best, not a designer!
Joineries and Cabinetmakers should have all the tools required to manufacture cabinets. Some projects do last longer with littler or no maintenance compared to others, mainly due to the materials that are used in manufacture, construction, and fabrication. All these variables will reflect in the overall cost of your project. This is why cabinet making is a cutthroat industry in Australia.
Written by Jason Robinson for the ‘Kitchen Pages, computer software’ Copyright 2000-2008, All rights reserved. See the ‘DISCLAIMER’ at www.KitchenPages.com for more information. Written for private use only!
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[Planning]
[Materials]
[Cabinetmaking]
[Tools]
[Care]
[Style]
[Colour]
[Software]