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You can scribe it tight enough that mastic will hold it in place in some cases.
Always best to build the biggest regular shaped box you can fit upright in the alcove and scribe to the walls.
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Thanks, as ever. That's roughly the plan in my head.
Had originally planned to go with a local fitter which would make life easier but it seems like he's tied to a particular supplier and won't do colours we want without a massive increase in cost and a bodged way of doing it (sticking laminate to furniture board so you'd see the original colour underneath it when open, at a charge of £450 per cupboard - which seems like the kind of price someone gives when they can't be bothered with the job). At which point it's cheaper to go wild on Fittingly/similar and get everything exactly to fancy spec which may or may not make up for poor installation. How hard can it be amirite @stevo_com ?
CYOA
I have wobbly alcoves. The wobbles appear to be from where there were shelves in them built in in the past and then they were badly ripped out and sloppily poly'd over. I'm going to be fitting some wardrobes into them. What is my best bet for hacking it back and covering in a way that won't present problems when the wardrobe goes next to it? I'm presuming there should be some kind of void between the wardrobe and walls?
Example. One alcove measures:
Back:
top 0964
middle 0958
low 0938
skirting 0899
front:
top 0965
middle 0963
low 0963
skirting 0926
Height is 2623 / 2619
Our woodwork is awful anyway so I could rip all the skirting out in the room and install fresh, up to where the cupboard will end? But then even without the skirting there's still nearly 4cm of variation front to back at some stages up and down the alcove. Do I just suck it up and measure from the smallest point to save mess and hacking, then use a metric fuck ton of toupret? What else could I do to fill the wonky gap? Can't picture how to connect a scribed offcut to a wall or a cupboard without having unsightly screws inside the cupboard.