Some years back I did some medical cabinets for a doctors office in a two story complex of medical offices. When I was installing I noticed another installation going on in an office a few doors down the hall. On one of my many trips out to the truck I noticed an installer carrying what looked to be a 6' long upper cabinet, 30" high and 12" deep on one shoulder. I had to follow him to that office and talk to him about the cabinet. He handled it like it weighed nothing.
He was no weightlifter by a long shot, in fact he was short and skinny. We talked about the type of construction used and it was incredible. In Florida, there is no code or standard that has to be followed for either commercial or residential cabinet construction. The only requirement is that the installer has to have a "CC", which is a Certificate of Competency. The shop can build anything they want and needs no certification just to build.
Anyway, these cabinets demonstrated what I would call Krap to the highest degree. The boxes were made from 30" high painted white masonite 1/8" thick. From each end of the sheet, a vertical cut was made on a TS, halfway through the thickness (1/16" deep), and then the 12" ends were folded, yes that's right, folded at two points for the length of the cabinet. To make a long story short, a vertical pine piece 3/4" x 1" was stapled to each back corner. A 3/4" x 2" premade FF was stapled to the front edges, and in the back a 3/4" x 2" as a hangrail. The vertical pieces carried the shelf clip holes. For the top and bottom, 3/4" x 3/4" pine was stapled along the edges to hold the 1/8" masonite. Undersides and finished ends and faces had mica laminate ( I'm the guy who calls Formica, mica, referring to the material, not the brand).
This was basically the whole cabinet. They purchased the masonite already painted white, used some pine painted white, no jointing, and that's it. Hardly any cost of materials. They did use 5/8" melamine for the shelves and doors, with euro hinges. I'm sure they had the lowest price. Makes me wonder what someone will think up next.
He was no weightlifter by a long shot, in fact he was short and skinny. We talked about the type of construction used and it was incredible. In Florida, there is no code or standard that has to be followed for either commercial or residential cabinet construction. The only requirement is that the installer has to have a "CC", which is a Certificate of Competency. The shop can build anything they want and needs no certification just to build.
Anyway, these cabinets demonstrated what I would call Krap to the highest degree. The boxes were made from 30" high painted white masonite 1/8" thick. From each end of the sheet, a vertical cut was made on a TS, halfway through the thickness (1/16" deep), and then the 12" ends were folded, yes that's right, folded at two points for the length of the cabinet. To make a long story short, a vertical pine piece 3/4" x 1" was stapled to each back corner. A 3/4" x 2" premade FF was stapled to the front edges, and in the back a 3/4" x 2" as a hangrail. The vertical pieces carried the shelf clip holes. For the top and bottom, 3/4" x 3/4" pine was stapled along the edges to hold the 1/8" masonite. Undersides and finished ends and faces had mica laminate ( I'm the guy who calls Formica, mica, referring to the material, not the brand).
This was basically the whole cabinet. They purchased the masonite already painted white, used some pine painted white, no jointing, and that's it. Hardly any cost of materials. They did use 5/8" melamine for the shelves and doors, with euro hinges. I'm sure they had the lowest price. Makes me wonder what someone will think up next.
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!!?! Mystifying logic! Now she's not as dismissive, but dunno if that's because she's convinced, or she does not want to fire me up to a rant 
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