Calculation of the height of the wardrobe. Calculation of the sliding wardrobe and its detailed equipment
After reading this article, you will learn how to do it yourself, without resorting to complex mathematical calculations or computer programs, carry out calculations of wardrobe doors.
Width&Height: measurement features
According to the standard, the smallest width is considered door leaf at 500 mm. Narrower facades can be purchased to order, but experience shows that they are not very practical. When opening, the door falls towards the force and the profile touches the lower running track, even worse when the door falls out of the track.
A facade with a width of more than 1000 mm is also not very convenient to use. Although there are no special restrictions on the installation of such structures, you need to choose those options that actually turn out to be more practical.
The handle profile is made of a special plastic and at the same time impact-resistant composition; its length can reach 5500 mm. The parts are cut depending on the height of the wardrobe. When calculating wardrobe doors and choosing a profile, take into account the rigidity of the handle, which is determined by the width of the door leaf. The wider the facade, the higher the strength of the framing structure.
Overlapping of façade components
Having calculated the sliding wardrobe doors correctly, in the open state, when one of the parts is hidden behind the other, you will see only 1 of the handle profiles of the front facade.
The number of canvases is determined based on the width of the cabinet and its internal contents. Under no circumstances should the door block access to the cabinet sections. When calculating the opening for three door design the sum of the width of two of the three parts of the facade (rear) should not exceed the distance from the end of the product to the next section (of one opening).
Before installing the wardrobe, make sure that the floor in the room is level. Even with a slight tilt, the canvas will randomly roll to one side.
To start calculating the wardrobe doors, measure the opening. Find the height and width of the niche, for example, h=2500; b=1400.
Features of horizontal façade calculations
Doors must overlap in the opening. The canvas should be larger than the middle of the opening by one handle profile. Measure the length of the profile and add this figure to the width of the cabinet. Divide this amount by 2, resulting in the size of one door leaf in width.
The number of overlaps depends on the number of doors. So, the profile of the handle of one span overlaps the edging of another, and so on in a checkerboard sequence. Then the sum of overlaps is added to the width of the niche and divided by the number of facades.
Consider using examples to calculate the width of wardrobe doors:
- for a two-door opening:
profile width - 24 mm, opening - 1400 mm;
1400+24=1424/2=712 mm
The size of 1 canvas is 712 mm.
- for a three-door cabinet:
opening width - 1600 mm, profile - 26 mm;
If there are three parts of the facade, two overlaps are obtained, therefore, 26 + 26 = 52 mm.
1600+52=1652/3=550 mm - the size of one door in width.
Calculation of door size according to the height of the wardrobe
Using this scheme it is not difficult to calculate. Subtract 40 mm from the height of the niche. Experts, giving instructions, advise taking 5 mm more, but practice shows the opposite. A distance of 40 mm will be enough to insert the facade into the W-shaped upper guide.
See for yourself how easy it is to calculate the height of wardrobe doors:
The height of the niche is 2400 mm.
2400-40=2360 mm - the height of the door leaf mounted on tracks.
Installers say that in practice there have been cases when it was necessary to insert a door into an opening with a 30 mm gap. It is possible to perform such an operation, but it is not recommended. The façade section is difficult to ride on the rail, and the installation itself is labor-intensive and time-consuming. Sometimes such difficulties arise when the calculation of the dimensions of the wardrobe doors was carried out with an error.
Calculating the filling of a door structure
The last thing to be found is the indicator denoted H(h) - depth. Even a schoolchild can handle this calculation. The facade filling is framed with an aluminum frame. To calculate it, you will have to subtract the profile width from the general parameters of the door.
Example of depth calculation
After looking at the example, familiarize yourself with the calculation process.
Important! The width of the handle is measured to the nearest millimeter.
- Since there are two handles, multiply the resulting value by 2: 16x2=32 mm.
- The width of the handles is subtracted from the width of the facade: 712-32 = 680 mm - width of the filling.
- Measure the distance of the upper and lower horizons separating the canvas from the height of the niche. For example, it is 12 and 47 mm, respectively.
Then the door height is 2360 mm;
The sum of the upper and lower horizons is 59 mm.
2360-59=2301 mm - door filling height.
Dimensions:
opening - 1400x2400;
door -2360x712 - 2 pcs.;
facade filling - 2301x680 - 2 pcs.
For a mirror or glass facade, do not forget to subtract the thickness of the silicone seal from the filling - 1 mm. It is placed on the glass sheet around the perimeter, therefore 2 mm are subtracted from the height and width indicators.
How to calculate profiles for a sliding wardrobe door
Let's look at an example:
width - 24 mm;
Since there are two handles, we multiply the number by 2: 24x2=48 mm.
712-48=664 mm - length of the upper and lower tracks.
The task: to understand the calculation of sliding wardrobe doors with your own hands has been completed. The algorithm of actions is easy to remember, and having familiarized yourself with the principles of calculations, you do not have to call a specialist to assemble the cabinet, but do the work yourself, saving part of the family budget.
There is nothing complicated in calculating the dimensions for the door structure of a sliding wardrobe. With a basic set of skills and knowledge, every craftsman can easily install a wardrobe façade or install a door separating two rooms in a house.
A sliding wardrobe is an extremely convenient and practical piece of furniture. Almost without taking up useful place in the room, it has considerable capacity, and external design It is quite capable of decorating any interior room. The demand for such products is consistently high, and many owners are attempting to build a wardrobe on their own.
It must be said that there is every reason for this - there are special sets of profiles on sale that allow, if you have certain skills and special care in your work, to make such a cabinet yourself. The work will be successful if all measurements and necessary calculations are carefully taken. One of key parameters– this is the width of the sliding doors of the wardrobe. It depends on several initial values - all this is taken into account by the calculator we offer for calculating the width of the wardrobe door leaf.
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The corresponding explanations for the calculation are in the text section below the calculator.
Calculation of facades is a fairly important procedure, because they are the face finished product and in some cases (for example, MDF facades) it will no longer be possible to change something if there is an error.
In this article I will try to explain how calculations are made for all the main varieties furniture facades(with the exception of radius ones). We will disassemble it on the basis of a box with external dimensions of 600 x 300 mm.
So, let's start with swing facades. In order for the doors to open, it is necessary that they do not rub against each other and against the body; technological gaps are provided for this.
They are 2-4 mm (more - they look ugly, less - they rub).
Personally, I prefer to make gaps of 2 mm.
Separately, I note that the dimensions must be calculated for each module separately, that is, if you are assembling a kitchen in which there are 3 floor drawers and 3 wall drawers, then the dimensions must be calculated for each drawer separately, that is, 6 times - this way you will insure yourself against a number of possible mistakes.
Front width calculated by the formula:
w =(W/n)-3 mm
Where w- width of the facade, W- box width, n- number of facades (by width)
Some furniture makers subtract 4 mm, but in my opinion the gaps are too large.
Height of facades. When calculating height, there are no clearly defined formulas - you should be guided by common sense and some simple subtleties.
For example, let's calculate the dimensions of the facades for several kitchen modules.
Red The dimensions of the box are marked in color, blue - gaps, orange - dimensions of facades.
So, the dimensions of the box are 730x450 mm
We calculate the width using the formula (450/1)-3 and get 447 mm. (there are 1.5 mm gaps on the sides, which will allow you not to cling to adjacent cabinets, which will have the same allowances).
In terms of height, we decide to make 3 facades, of which 2 are large, 300 mm each. We take into account that optimal distance between adjacent boxes is 2-3 mm , and between table top and top facade 5 mm (so that the facade does not cling to the drip tray, which is located on kitchen countertops). As a result, subtracting these values from the height of the box, we obtain the height of the small facade 121 mm
730mm - 300mm - 2mm - 300mm - 2mm - 5mm=121 mm
Let's move on to another example: calculation of facades for a hanging cabinet. Its peculiarity is the presence of two hinged facades, as well as an overhang of the upper horizon, which seems to cover the doors, giving the entire cabinet a finished look.
Based overall dimensions cabinets: 636 x 600 mm, calculate the width of the facades. (600/2)-3 = 297.
Knowing that the thickness of the upper horizon is 16 mm, and making a 3 mm gap between it and the facade, we get the height of the facade (636-16-3) = 617
Now let's move on to individual subtleties of calculation.
1. When calculating the dimensions of facades made from laminated chipboard, edged 2 mm PVC edging, do not forget to subtract another 4 mm from the dimensions, both in height and width (edge thickness on both sides)
2. When calculating the dimensions of swing facades for corner cabinets, It is necessary to take into account that there are two types of corner loops (+45, +30 g). Visually they do not differ from each other; the difference is noticeable only on the assembled body with a hung facade. Therefore, the installation diagram for the corner hinges that you purchase should be checked with the seller.
Let's look at the calculation for each using an example. corner cabinets with a distance between the walls (in the façade opening) of 300 mm.
So, option 1 facade turns out loose its size should be 1 mm less than the width of the niche, that is, equal to 299 mm. 
What we will talk about now can be called the classic “rakes” that novice furniture makers and home craftsmen very often step on. And if I doubted the need to write a previous publication for you, then the significance of this article does not give me the slightest doubt.
So, today we will again consider the calculation of a sliding wardrobe. We will talk about achieving harmony and naturalness between the compartment doors and its internal contents. This is very important point in the design of the wardrobe. Unfortunately, many novice furniture makers make their biggest mistakes in this place. But let's talk about everything in order.
Design features of the compartment door
The advantages of compartment doors are probably written on every furniture website. By the way, sometimes I can’t understand why people write about this at all. After all, everything is clear - the design of the compartment door allows you to open the doors according to the “compartment” principle, thereby ensuring optimal use spaces in the room. And this is a big plus, because of which sliding wardrobes quickly entered our lives, replacing their dull predecessors with hinged doors.
I want to talk not about the dignity, but about the features of compartment doors. About that feature that the buyer of furniture does not care about, but which is important for its manufacturer:
The compartment doors are designed in such a way that while they open access to one section of the internal contents of the wardrobe, they close another section. And most importantly, the doors move only along the horizontal rail and do not swing outward. That is why it is very important that sliding doors do not block the path of a sliding drawer or a descending pantograph elevator.
Attention to the picture:
Here is a typical example of the results of an incorrect calculation of a sliding wardrobe. Due to mistakes made, it becomes impossible to open a drawer or lower a pantograph lift without removing the doors. Now the owners, in order to get their socks out of the drawer, will have to remove the door from their closet every time. Furniture makers brought unforgettable variety and a touch of extreme excitement into their lives.
Well, but seriously, the furniture makers and defectors, having made a number of serious mistakes, simply “lost money.” It's sad, but there's nothing you can do about it. Do you want to repeat their mistakes? If not, then let's continue!
Calculation of the width of wardrobe doors
So that you can thoroughly understand and understand all the intricacies of this issue, I propose to consider the calculation of a sliding wardrobe using the example of our experimental three-door model. We have already calculated. Ours is 2100 mm. The design contains drawers in the two outer sections. In general, there is everything necessary to make mistakes in calculations and “fail” according to the classic scenario.
I’ll say right away that we will only consider calculating the width of the compartment doors. It's just very difficult to make a mistake in calculating the height. But width is the very place where brains boil and money is lost.
I haven’t drawn you any drawings for a long time! I'm fixing the situation:
So, we conventionally assume that the width of our vertical profile is 26 mm - this is the size of the most popular open aluminum profile. Let's start with the calculations:
Given: 2100 mm width of the sliding wardrobe.
Calculate the width of the internal opening of the cabinet. Since our cabinet is made of 16mm thick chipboard, the width of the internal opening will be equal to: 2100 – 16 – 16 = 2068 mm. I simply subtracted the thickness of the outer side walls of the wardrobe and got inner size opening width.
We make adjustments to the calculation of the internal width of the wardrobe opening. To understand what we are talking about now, you need to read. In relation to the three-door model, we must subtract two thicknesses of the short buffer tape that is glued to the outer doors of the compartment. Let's look at the picture:
So, when calculating the width of the wardrobe doors, we start from next value opening width: 2068 – 6 – 6 = 2056 mm. It is from this figure that we will now “dance” with you.
Calculate the width of the compartment doors. Here, for clarity, I decided to give you another picture:
As you can see, we have two “overlapping” doors (they are highlighted in red circles). The width of the vertical profile is conventionally equal to 26 mm. To get the desired “overlap”, the width of the doors of our sliding wardrobe must be calculated taking into account the addition of two equal “overlaps” to the width of the opening: 26 + 26 = 52mm. As a result, the formula for calculating one compartment door will look like this: (2056 + 52)/3 = 703mm,
2056mm – estimated internal width of the sliding wardrobe opening,
52mm – width of two “overlaps” (26 + 26 = 52mm),
3pcs – number of compartment doors.
So we calculated the width of one door of our wardrobe. Now let's move on to studying the internal contents of the product, namely, calculating the width of one section of the cabinet and the width of its drawers.
Calculation of the internal filling of a sliding wardrobe
So, our wardrobe will have three sections. Let's calculate the internal width of one section. Attention to the picture:
Everything is very simple here: from the overall width of the sliding wardrobe we subtract the thickness of all, and then divide the result by the number of sections (in our case, it is three): (2100 – 16 – 16 – 16 – 16)/3 = 678mm.
As you can see, the internal width of one section is 678mm. We discard 4mm for the gap under the drawers and get the width of the drawer front: 678 – 4 = 674mm.
So, we found out that the width of our wardrobe drawer front is 674mm. Let's remember this figure, because it will be useful to us in further calculations of the wardrobe.
We compare the calculated data of the compartment doors and the internal filling of the cabinet
Well, now the time has come to understand why we counted so much here, and why we need it at all. To do this, I suggest you look at this “funny picture”:
So, you wanted to pull out the leftmost drawer and broke off badly. Why did this happen? Yep, it turns out that when you pushed the back door all the way, it still didn't make room for the drawer to open. So this is not surprising! What do you want? We count:
Internal opening width: 2068mm,
Width of one compartment door: 703mm,
When we move the back door, the following internal space is freed up: 2068 – 703 – 703 – 6 – 6 – 6 = 644mm. By the way, do you understand where the six-millimeter distances came from? This is the thickness of a short buffer tape, which also takes up part of the internal space of the wardrobe when the doors are opened. Here's a drawing just in case:
So what do we have? Opened rear left door freed up only 644mm of internal cabinet space for us. At that time, the internal width of one section was as much as 678mm. So we got a classic joint, code-named: “If you want to get socks, take off the closet door.” By the way, a similar fate awaits the right section. So, when calculating a wardrobe, you need to remember all the sections containing drawers and other pull-out mechanisms.
Ways to solve this problem
In general, when developing the design of a sliding wardrobe, you should always remember possible problems, which may await you at the development stage design documentation. Well, lyrics aside, let's get down to business. So, what to do in such a situation? I'm telling you:
Reducing the width of the opening with drawers sliding doors. Everything is natural here. If our door left us 644mm of free space when opening, then we can adjust our sections with drawers to this size, reducing their width, say, to a size of 634mm.
Now you may ask: “Why not up to 644mm?” I answer: “And in order to sleep peacefully and not worry whether the drawer will or will not fit through this opening. It’s better to leave one centimeter as a “correction for the wind” than to scratch your turnips and think, what to do now.”
Reducing the width of sliding doors. In our case, we need to reduce the width of the outer sliding doors. Naturally, the width of the middle door must be increased by the same amount. In order not to disturb the ideal “overlap” of the doors and not to create an unnecessary gap. Attention to the picture:
So, the width of our internal section is 678mm, and we were left with only 644mm for the doors. Taking into account the “wind adjustment”, we need the doors to leave 688mm.
First, we calculate the millimeters we are missing: 688 – 644 = 44mm. It turns out that we need to reduce the total width of the outer doors by 44mm. That is, we reduce each door by: 44/2 = 22mm. As a result, our outer doors will have a width of: 703 – 22 = 681mm. And the width of the middle door will be increased by 44mm and equal to: 703 + 44 = 747mm.
As you can see, we got the difference in width between the outer doors and the middle door equal to: 747 – 681 = 66mm. Some people are happy with this imbalance, but others may not like it. Therefore, I recommend that in such cases you combine reducing the width of the opening and reducing the width of the doors. That is, you reduce the opening a little and reduce the door a little, as a result you get the desired result with minimal sacrifices. But just be extremely careful:
Measure seven times and cut once! Otherwise, prepare your money!
What else do I want to say! Do not place drawers in all sections of the wardrobe - it is troublesome. It’s better to limit yourself to one or two sections and breathe evenly than to jam drawers in all the openings and blow your mind trying to ensure that they all open freely in the product.
By following our instructions, you can correctly calculate the wardrobe with your own hands. This work is not as difficult as it seems at first glance, so even a novice furniture assembler can do it.
We will start from what you already have finished drawing, made with your own hands in a graphic editor, in which the quantity and method of fastening various parts is determined. When making a model of a sliding wardrobe, you should take into account the thickness of the material and edges. This factor is very important, especially for calculating boxes.
We calculate the dimensions of the cabinet and its contents
To clearly demonstrate how to do the calculation yourself, we will simultaneously show an example for a two-door cabinet, the dimensions of which are as follows:
- height – 2200mm;
- width – 1600mm;
- depth – 600mm.
We will use aluminum Alutech as a sliding system; we will choose a C-shaped profile shape. Of the two doors, one will be made of chipboard, the second will be mirrored. The closet will have two separate sections, one for a clothes hanger, the second will contain shelves and drawers.
The first thing we need to do is prepare a drawing where we will enter the dimensions obtained as a result of the calculation.
We calculate the height for the side stand as follows: [height of the wardrobe] – [thickness of the roof]. Considering that standard thickness 16mm laminated chipboard sheet, in our case the result will be 2184mm (2200-16).
The sidewall will be the same width as the depth of our cabinet, that is, 600mm.
To calculate the bottom of the structure, it is necessary to subtract the thickness of the two sidewalls from its total width, we get 1568mm (1600-32).
As for the length of the base, its size will be equal to the length of the bottom of the structure (1568mm). His standard height 60mm. Note that it will not be possible to make a smaller height due to the peculiarities of the operation of the edge banding machine.
To make it more convenient to calculate the opening where the shelves and drawers will be located, we will make it a multiple of 50mm. Considering that the section in which the drawers are located needs to be moved away from the center by a distance of 50 to 70 mm, we will make its width 600 mm. In this case, the drawers will not touch the door and the pile seal glued to it.
The formula for calculating the internal stand will be as follows: [cabinet height] - [podium height] - [cabinet roof thickness], for us it will be 2108mm (2200-76-16).
Calculating the depth internal shelves and stand: [cabinet width] -100mm (under sliding system doors), we get this value to be 500mm.
Based on the fact that the width of the section for drawers and shelves is 600mm, we calculate for the second compartment: [width of the cabinet] - [thickness of the two external stand-ins] - [width of the section for drawers] - [thickness internal partition]. Entering all the values we get 952mm.
Calculation of cabinet drawers
When calculating the front of the drawers, it is necessary to subtract from 4 to 6 mm from the width of the opening for space for gaps, while 3 mm will be enough for gaps in height. It is also necessary to take into account the PVC edge around the perimeter of the facade; it can be 1 or 4 mm (minimum and maximum value).
To make it more convenient to calculate the sidewalls of the boxes, we will make them multiples of 50mm, we will get 450mm. The height of the enclosing sides should be 40 or 50 mm less than the façade. That is, if we made the facade 200mm, then the side sides will be 160mm. We calculate the back of the drawers as follows: [opening width] - [thickness of guides] - [side of the drawer]. We get 542mm (600-26-32).
For the bottom of the boxes that we make ourselves, we choose DVPO material. The bottom can be nailed from below, or special grooves can be made for its installation. In this case, it is necessary to take into account the thickness of the material (usually 4mm) and the depth of the groove, it can be 5-8mm. In our case, we decided to make the bottom stuffed, respectively, its size is 570x446mm.
The clothes hanger is made from a chrome-plated pipe; we used a Joker system with a 25mm cross-section, equipped with two flanges for fastening.
Considering that the section for clothes has practically no shelves to give rigidity to the structure, it is necessary to make a screed in the center of the opening. Its width will be the same as that of the opening (952mm), and its height will be 200mm.
The parameters of the lid for the sliding wardrobe correspond to the width and depth of the structure; sometimes a small canopy is made for lighting. It doesn't matter what shape it will be. If you plan to install backlighting, it is enough to increase the depth by about 150mm.
The back wall is made of fiberboard; as a rule, it is made of printed material. Considering that standard size a sheet of this material is 2750x1220mm, a one-piece design will not work. Therefore, the wall is assembled from two pieces.
No. Name of element Width (mm) Length (mm) Quantity (pcs)
Calculating wardrobe doors
We chose aluminum profile Alutech, form MS120, its parameters are indicated by the manufacturer. Necessary calculations:
sliding doors to the wardrobe are installed on an opening of 2108x1568mm;
the upper and lower guides will be long – 1568mm;
the vertical profile will have a height of: [opening height] - [side profile height], we get 2063mm (2108-45);
height and width of the door 2003x762, height = [vertical profile height] -, width = [door width] –;
The height and width of the mirror for a sliding wardrobe door is 2001×759, height = [vertical profile height]-, width = [door width]-.
The above calculations are quite enough to make a sliding wardrobe with your own hands.