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Luft-Schiff27 Apr 2015 14:48Hello everyone,
On Saturday, I bought a Besta shelving unit consisting of the 192 cm (75.6 inches) cabinet and three 64 cm (25.2 inches) doors. The unit is standing, but at the moment I am struggling with the correct installation of the two main shelves for the three compartments created by the doors. I have the 36 cm (14.2 inches) shelves and the BESTA door fittings with push buttons.
Installing the shelves is a bit confusing. As far as I can tell, there are three options: The simplest is to just place the shelves on the included shelf supports. A bit more complex is the use of the wall-mounted brackets provided for the tall Besta cabinet, which are supposed to prevent the sides from shifting sideways.
The door fittings also include double-screwed brackets, which are specified for use in the cabinet assembly instructions. These double-screwed brackets, however, cause problems in two ways: First, they move the shelf forward by about 1.5 cm (0.6 inches), making the shelf flush with the side walls at the front. This would be nice, as it prevents a gap on the door side. However, these brackets create an equally sized gap at the back panel.
Additionally, these brackets position the shelf "deeper." In a sketch from the assembly guide, I believe it is intended that the cabinet door ends just above the shelf (to prevent items from rolling or sliding off???). My initial thought was to position the shelves so that the two cabinet doors each close around the middle of the shelf, both above and below.
Can anyone clarify this for me? Am I even using the right shelves and mounting materials for this purpose? How did you install the shelves? What is the vertical hole spacing you used between the shelves?
Thank you in advance.
On Saturday, I bought a Besta shelving unit consisting of the 192 cm (75.6 inches) cabinet and three 64 cm (25.2 inches) doors. The unit is standing, but at the moment I am struggling with the correct installation of the two main shelves for the three compartments created by the doors. I have the 36 cm (14.2 inches) shelves and the BESTA door fittings with push buttons.
Installing the shelves is a bit confusing. As far as I can tell, there are three options: The simplest is to just place the shelves on the included shelf supports. A bit more complex is the use of the wall-mounted brackets provided for the tall Besta cabinet, which are supposed to prevent the sides from shifting sideways.
The door fittings also include double-screwed brackets, which are specified for use in the cabinet assembly instructions. These double-screwed brackets, however, cause problems in two ways: First, they move the shelf forward by about 1.5 cm (0.6 inches), making the shelf flush with the side walls at the front. This would be nice, as it prevents a gap on the door side. However, these brackets create an equally sized gap at the back panel.
Additionally, these brackets position the shelf "deeper." In a sketch from the assembly guide, I believe it is intended that the cabinet door ends just above the shelf (to prevent items from rolling or sliding off???). My initial thought was to position the shelves so that the two cabinet doors each close around the middle of the shelf, both above and below.
Can anyone clarify this for me? Am I even using the right shelves and mounting materials for this purpose? How did you install the shelves? What is the vertical hole spacing you used between the shelves?
Thank you in advance.
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IKEA-Experte27 Apr 2015 15:49Hello, with BESTA you can’t have it all. The metal pieces used as floor supports are mainly intended for a base above a drawer. The floor then aligns with the drawer front to cover the gap at the back.
If the floor is supposed to align flush with the cabinet frame between the doors, the only options are to mill new holes for the floor supports in the floor panel or to place a second floor panel on top of the too-low floor (preferably cut to the correct depth from wood purchased at a hardware store).
If the floor is supposed to align flush with the cabinet frame between the doors, the only options are to mill new holes for the floor supports in the floor panel or to place a second floor panel on top of the too-low floor (preferably cut to the correct depth from wood purchased at a hardware store).
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