03-20-2019, 11:21 AM
I am doing a "full gut" on the second bathroom in my house. The bathroom is original to the home which was built in 1953 (I have the original builder's plans drawn in 1952).
There was a vanity table in the bath as well as a wall mounted sink.
I dismantled the vanity which consisted of a top, and two pedestals. Each pedestal had one drawer and one door.
The entire vanity was made with butt joints and headed nails which were apparently hand driven. No glue. No screws. No dowels. (Oops! The hinges were screwed in.)
The boxes were butt jointed and nailed; the drawers were butt jointed and nailed. No glue anywhere. And 1/2" thick plywood throughout. So someone was pretty good at driving nails.
So it stayed together (and solid) for 66 years. I'm not sure my "properly joined" cabinets will do as well.
There was a vanity table in the bath as well as a wall mounted sink.
I dismantled the vanity which consisted of a top, and two pedestals. Each pedestal had one drawer and one door.
The entire vanity was made with butt joints and headed nails which were apparently hand driven. No glue. No screws. No dowels. (Oops! The hinges were screwed in.)
The boxes were butt jointed and nailed; the drawers were butt jointed and nailed. No glue anywhere. And 1/2" thick plywood throughout. So someone was pretty good at driving nails.
So it stayed together (and solid) for 66 years. I'm not sure my "properly joined" cabinets will do as well.
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