fitted wardrobe in a recess

newbridge

Just moved to a new home which has got a recess for a wardrobe. As shown in the top view sketch below, one side is 600mm and other is 500mm. After unsuccessfully trying to find a good fitting company am thinking of DIY'ing it. 
Am thinking of putting in mirrored sliding doors. 
- Would like to have a depth of 600mm since 500mm might be too tight?
- Just had a new carpet in too. Do I need to cut it out for tracks or just screw it on a wooden liner?
- I can buy wardrobe kit from b&q or online sellers but what do I put in the missing 100mm?
- Appreciate any ideas or tips or recommendations!

Jeepers_Creepers

This can be as simple or as complex as you like.

Definitely get it out to 600mm depth. That can be as easy as screwing a side panel - doesn't have to be any more than 300mm wide - to the LH side with 100mm sticking out. Make it solid, tho' - no less than 18mm material.

You then may wish to consider a timber frame to surround the opening that'll then take the door-kit frame. This might not even be needed, and it'll mostly be decorative. Just look at pics online - Google images and Pinterest until you find what you want to copy. If you are not sure how to do this bit, come back on here with your chosen design.

I wouldn't cut the carpet either, and there shouldn't be any need - choose sliding doors which hang from rollers and only use the bottom for a guide - that way there will be no need to make the bottom threshold particularly solid or level. See what the door kit comes with down there, and choose a nice timber threshold to suit if it's needed - flat, thin, tapering edges. Use thin screws - size 6 or whateves - to secure this to the floor underneath your carpet, presumably timber or chipboard; it only need to stay in place, and hopefully the small holes made in the carpet will barely be visible should you come to remove the cupboard in future.

newbridge

Thank you @Jeepers_Creepers for your detailed answer.
Can you recommend any good wardrobe kit sellers? 

Jeepers_Creepers

Sorry - I have no experience of them.

ka7e

Check your coathangers! Most commercial ones (supplied with clothes etc) are 47cm. The ones you buy as a pack are usually 40cm+ but they often aren't suitable for larger items such as coats or menswear. Make sure you have enough clearance in the 50cm alcove to accommodate hangers and the door mechanism.

newbridge

Checked spacepro kits available at various sellers. Their height including track/rail is 2260mm. But my room's height(from carpet to ceiling) is 2300mm.
https://www.wickes.co.uk/Spacepro-Sliding-Wardrobe-Door-White-Framed-Mirror-Twinpack---2260mm-x-610mm/p/187534#
How do I best fill that 40mm gap at the top(or bottom)? 

Jeepers_Creepers

Oooh - I'm guessing with a 40mm thick piece of timber :-)

In practice, you may want to work out what's going to happen along the floor first, and then deduct that from the 'missing' 40mm. Then choose a suitable timber thickness that'll go along the top.

You'll almost certainly want a timber plate along the top anyway, as you'll need to catch the ceiling joists to screw in to. A 1200mm wide space should catch 2 joists at least, hopefully three. Once the plate is securely fixed up there - and it'll have to be secure - you can screw the top rail with abandon.

moonpenny

I have only looked at B&Q site (I think they are Spacepro) and they do filler strips for that problem.
I have the opposite problem where the height of my ceiling is too short for height of doors.

Moss5

https://spaceprowardrobes.co.uk/
They do made-to-measure.

newbridge

moonpenny said:

I have only looked at B&Q site (I think they are Spacepro) and they do filler strips for that problem.
I have the opposite problem where the height of my ceiling is too short for height of doors.

The fillet strips are only 18mm thick. Probably not enough to hand the rail(door) on it.
https://www.screwfix.com/p/spacepro-wardrobe-fillet-oak-2800-x-90mm/1083r
or am i looking at a wrong product.

lesalanos

You can use a 600mm width contiboard on the left hand side to level them up.  You could also use contiboard along the top 40mm or just paint some timber and mount the top rail.

I fitted some B&Q mirrored sliding doors recently, screwing through the carpet will be fine, just be careful how long the screws are so you do not go through the boards into pipes/cables.  The B&Q doors sit on the track at the bottom weight wise rather than hanging from the ceiling.