Shelves for kitchen cabinets

IHateDida

I have been in B&Q and Homebase looking to buy additional white MDF shelves to put in our (standard) kitchen wall and floor cabinets. We have just one in each and need the extra shelf space.

Does anyone please know where I can get just get standard sized shelves? (I am not good at DIY so I would be hopeless at cutting MDF!). Homebase told me that I would need a brand new kitchen as they didn't stock just the shelves!!!! :eek: :rotfl:

andrew-b

Ignore what you've been told in Homebase (they must be desperate for kitchen sales to tell you that!!)...you don't need a new kitchen! Besides new kitchens generally only seem to come with one shelf - keep meaning to add an extra shelf in one of our new kitchen cupboards myself.

If you don't want to cut it yourself, most DIY stores seem to offer an instore cutting service at a cost per cut i think (never used it myself though). Measure the width and depth and thickness of the existing shelves. Take your measurements with you into the store (B&Q or wickes will be cheaper than homebase) and find the white faced furniture panel (not MDF though - it's called melamine faced particle board i think - sometimes contiboard) of suitable size and then go ask them to cut it up for you. Alternatively you could try a local timber merchant who should be cheaper than the diy stores.

Once you've got your shelves cut to size you'll need the little shelf support brackets to support them (usually plastic or metal). Should find them somewhere in the DIY stores - B&Q usually have someone in the kitchen section who should know where to find them. There will likely be other holes for alternative shelf positions already drilled into the sides of the units that you can use.. if not you'll have to drill your own.

Hope that helps

Andy

ormus

im sure any decent neighbour who does DIY would cut your wood to size for you. it would take about 10 minutes.
as for fixings, you can buy small plastic blocks that screw into the units and the shelf will just rest on them.

Doozergirl

Or ask on freecycle if anyone has any spares? We just had a new kitchen and I admit to throwing some shelves away!

27col

Get the melamine cut in store. A word of advice though, make sure that they are cut to the right size, some board that I have had cut at B & Q was not the actual size that I required. It is best to hand them a sheet of paper with sizes written on it, and make it clear which are the crucial dimensions. Then if there is a problem you have some come back.