Stuart Ablett
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A while ago we had to replace all the reach in and open case fridges in the liquor shop, when we did that we also lost one fridge that I had converted to a fine wine cooler (changed the fans on the unit and also changed the thermostat). We have been wanting to buy some of the large wine coolers and put them in the shop, but we never seemed to have the time to do the renovation needed to fit the wine coolers into our small shop.
Well all that changed, we were out at Costco and they had the Haier 120 bottle cooler on sale, so my wife decided to buy one, we delayed the delivery for a few days so we could figure out how to renovate to fit the new wine cooler.
We moved some things and we were able to just stuff the one wine cooler into place.....
I knew at the best that this would be a temporary solution, as we wanted to buy a second unit to give us much needed space for the fine wine. I also really disliked the wasted space above the wine cooler.
We have some other sizes of the metal shop shelving and after digging through it all and deciding that none of it would work well enough, I declared that I'd just build the silly things myself. That was Saturday afternoon.
Now some backstory, see the brown cabinet in the bottom right side of the photo? That is the base for the Humidor that I've been building for oh FOUR years....? It always gets pushed to the back burner when something else comes along and guess what, something else ALWAYS comes along. When I declared that I would build the new Wine Cooler Shelves, there was some, lets say, mild scepticism. I then declared that I'd get them done by Monday, OK, now there was a lot of rolling of the eyes and some giggles. I knew I had all day Sunday to build the two shelves that I would need, and as it was now late Saturday afternoon, I would have to get my deliveries done and then go to the home center tonight, so I would have the materials all ready to go on Sunday. My Buddy Neil and I went to Super Viva Home in Toyotsu, the close SVH and bought everything I needed, he did some other shopping too, and helped me unload, a real life saver.
To save time I decided to use the lamcore plywood that comes with a plastic coating applied to it, this is expensive stuff here, a 3'x6'x 13/16" (21mm) sheet is about $69 each, I needed five sheets according to my calculations, so I bought six sheets, I can take the unused sheet back.
Sunday, well things never seem to go according to plan and other things got in the way and ate up my time, so as you can see from this picture....
It was nearly 3:30 PM before I was able to start.
Some pictures of my "Plans"....... just for your enjoyment...
Certainly NOT Sketchup, but you get the idea, so one vertical shelf to take up the space beside the two wine coolers and one horizontal shelf to go over the wine cooler to use the space better.
My high tech cut lists....
Sparing no expense!
Well all that changed, we were out at Costco and they had the Haier 120 bottle cooler on sale, so my wife decided to buy one, we delayed the delivery for a few days so we could figure out how to renovate to fit the new wine cooler.
We moved some things and we were able to just stuff the one wine cooler into place.....
I knew at the best that this would be a temporary solution, as we wanted to buy a second unit to give us much needed space for the fine wine. I also really disliked the wasted space above the wine cooler.
We have some other sizes of the metal shop shelving and after digging through it all and deciding that none of it would work well enough, I declared that I'd just build the silly things myself. That was Saturday afternoon.
Now some backstory, see the brown cabinet in the bottom right side of the photo? That is the base for the Humidor that I've been building for oh FOUR years....? It always gets pushed to the back burner when something else comes along and guess what, something else ALWAYS comes along. When I declared that I would build the new Wine Cooler Shelves, there was some, lets say, mild scepticism. I then declared that I'd get them done by Monday, OK, now there was a lot of rolling of the eyes and some giggles. I knew I had all day Sunday to build the two shelves that I would need, and as it was now late Saturday afternoon, I would have to get my deliveries done and then go to the home center tonight, so I would have the materials all ready to go on Sunday. My Buddy Neil and I went to Super Viva Home in Toyotsu, the close SVH and bought everything I needed, he did some other shopping too, and helped me unload, a real life saver.
To save time I decided to use the lamcore plywood that comes with a plastic coating applied to it, this is expensive stuff here, a 3'x6'x 13/16" (21mm) sheet is about $69 each, I needed five sheets according to my calculations, so I bought six sheets, I can take the unused sheet back.
Sunday, well things never seem to go according to plan and other things got in the way and ate up my time, so as you can see from this picture....
It was nearly 3:30 PM before I was able to start.
Some pictures of my "Plans"....... just for your enjoyment...
Certainly NOT Sketchup, but you get the idea, so one vertical shelf to take up the space beside the two wine coolers and one horizontal shelf to go over the wine cooler to use the space better.
My high tech cut lists....
Sparing no expense!