Advice on wardrobe doors

[diydancarpentry]

Hi everyone! This is my first post - looking for your advice on fitted wardrobes for our bedroom. It's the first time I'm building one.

Is it possible to have two doors attached to the same vertical panel, one on each side?

Let me explain: I'm building a double wardrobe which has three vertical panels: left, middle and right. I want to know if it's good practice to have two doors which are attached to the same middle panel, instead of having two vertical panels, one door attached to each of them. I don't see the point in having two vertical panels just to attach the doors.

The panels is 18mm MDF and are 2000 high x 600 deep roughly.
The doors are 19mm gloss MRMDF 2000 x 500.

Hope this makes sense. I would very much appreciate your advice.

Thanks,
Dan

 

[Harbourwoodwork]

some pics would help

 

[nathyc84]

Do you want the wardrobe to be a pair of doors or two singles?

Pair of doors hinge on left and right panels.

Why do you want a middle panel? This would reduce acces into the wardrobe.

Have a look at this....

http://www.classiquebedrooms.co.uk/...Wardrobe Internals/Hanging Rail/Internal1.jpg

Might help

 

[diydancarpentry]

worth a thousand words

I hope this makes it clearer. Welcome your suggestions! I would much rather use a single vertical panel in the middle and attach both doors to it, on each side. Would the weight of the doors not be too much for a single vertical panel to support?

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[Harbourwoodwork]

what sort of hinges are you using

 

[big-all]

you want a gap at least 3" at the bottom [i aim for the skirting height] and 2" at the top to allow for movement and scribing and allow a bit off clearance

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Is it possible to have two doors attached to the same vertical panel, one on each side?

Yes, but you might need to offset the hinges vertically by 5 to 10mm to ensure that the screws don't interfere with each other (assuming that you are using cup hinges and that you aren't using 5mm euro screws to fix the cruciform baseplates)

 

[nathyc84]

worth a thousand words

I hope this makes it clearer. Welcome your suggestions! I would much rather use a single vertical panel in the middle and attach both doors to it, on each side. Would the weight of the doors not be too much for a single vertical panel to support?

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I would use two 18mm panels for strength one for each door. Using the same panel may actually stop the doors from opening properly as they would foul each other

 

[Deleted member 174758]

#Using the same panel may actually stop the doors from opening properly as they would foul each other

Not is the cruciform plates are this type. availe in various offsets. Insert (offset) plates can also be made-up from 9mm MDF to compensate for the "loss" of thickness in the panel - they are inserted beneath the cruciforms

 

[foxhole]

Too save timber costs I just add a 100mm wide 18mm mdf section flush to front edge to form second mounting panel, avoids the need for offset hinges and adds a little strength.

 

[Harbourwoodwork]

you beat me to the punch foxhole but on reflection a double bulkhead/side could ade shelf fixing 6 or 2x3!!!!

 

[jabuzzard]

Hi everyone! This is my first post - looking for your advice on fitted wardrobes for our bedroom. It's the first time I'm building one.

Is it possible to have two doors attached to the same vertical panel, one on each side?

Yes but you need to buy the right hinges. Use Google and search around a bit and you will find what you are looking for. Whether it is a good idea on a full height wardrobe is another matter.

 

[morticejoint]

Hi everyone! This is my first post - looking for your advice on fitted wardrobes for our bedroom. It's the first time I'm building one.

Is it possible to have two doors attached to the same vertical panel, one on each side?

Yes but you need to buy the right hinges. Use Google and search around a bit and you will find what you are looking for. Whether it is a good idea on a full height wardrobe is another matter.

I'm confused, what do you mean by the right hinges?

 

[jabuzzard]

I'm confused, what do you mean by the right hinges?

Concealed hinges of the types used in kitchens and wardrobes come in many different types. The standard type expect a carcase for the door to close against and cover the full width of the carcase. Different thicknesses of carcase require depending on the make of hinge different hinges and/or fixing plates.

However it is possible to get what are know as half overlay hinges so that a single thickness of carcase can handle two doors, see the following page for information.

http://hingedummy.info/eurohingefaqpage.htm#howdoiknowifmyhinge

Thus a half overlay hinge would be the "right" hinges as opposed to full overlay or inset hinges which would be the wrong hinges.