"Greg Guarino" wrote in message


For the further education of a novice, could you explain what sort of
cabinets you are making that require 2x4s and why you have chosen
pressure treated?

These are bathroom vanities. They - like most cabinets - have toe kicks;
i.e., an indentation at the bottom to accomodate one's toes when one
stands at the cabinet.

There are two ways I know of to make a toe kick...

1. Notch out the front of the cabinet sides

2. Make the cabinet sides shorter and set them - attached to the bottoms -
on a "plinth". A plinth is just a raised, open box, sized to provide the
toe kick when the cabinet boxes are on them. The advantage of using
plinths is twofold: 1) the cabinet sides don't have to be notched (a PITA)
and 2), it is far easier to level a plinth, should the need arise, than a
cabinet.

I make them from 2x4s, both PT and white wood. The PT pieces are vertical
and screwed to the concrete floor and/or the wall sole plate, hence the
PT. I put another set of WW 2x4s horizontally on top of and nailed to the
PT ones; that normally gives me 5" from slab to the underside of the
cabinet bottom. When I add the Saltillo tile floor, I'll have 4 - 41/4"
of toe kick height. The plinth gets pieces of 1/4" cement board nailed to
it, Saltillo tile mop boards on that.

One more thing: When you "skinny them down", won't you
be atomizing a great deal of allegedly poisonous stuff into the air?

Well yeah. Whatever escapes my dust collector will be visited on
humanity. In this case, "humanity" is me and - since I'll be 82 this
summer - I don't much care.

Same thing happened when I cut the 96" 2x4s into pieces.

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dadiOH
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