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Storage Cabinets with Plastic Leg Extensions for the Finished Basement

Bob talks with Jered Hamlin of Slide-Lok about the built-in sotrage furniture being constructed and installed. Slide-Lok is a garage storage cabinet that can also be used in the home. Plastic leg extensions are used to keep the cabinets off the floor. Slide-Lok cabinets are assembled with a slide-in-place technology and dovetail joinery. This cabinet system can be configured and purchased online. A small bead of glue is applied in each of the joints before the shelf slides in. Nailers are slid into place to attach the unit to the wall. Adjustable plastic legs are put into place to keep the cabinet off the floor and correct any inconsistencies in the floor level. Each unit comes with all the installation screws and hardware needed to put the unit together.

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Storage Cabinets with Plastic Leg Extensions for the Finished Basement

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" We wanna say hello to mister Hamlin here and I'm Jared you are from slide -- and slide Lok is the with the built in furniture manufacturer that. -- gonna supply how these yellow slide Lok is that garage storage cabinet that also can be used in the home from him and it's a plywood based product. And that. Really neat thing about our our cabinets. Are that the plastic leg extensions that we used to keep the cabinet off of the floor that this slide Lok refers to the the joinery if you well all right let's see dovetail joint. That's far superior to any butt joint or. Forward dados joint. -- to the back pieces that attached to. The wall. -- Inner shelf yeah after the -- will fill. That we've got to relive them. And was like a bottom yes this is the male part of the dovetail okay -- and all right well how many get the box in the packing material out of the way and -- you know again in the wonderful age of the Internet is the kind of thing that you shop for on your computer. And you design and figure out how much you can use now which we need. And we're just gonna. Quiet down here watch you put it together. That's what to do just apply a small be glib. Any to the joints. Any wood glue will do. The shelf basically just slides in. Hence the name slide -- These holes that are in the shelves. Are for the plastic leg that I was talking about earlier right. That's a great feature not having to worry about the toe kick situation where you could in fact have. Rodents. Nesting. -- from the slide. With the two nailers. And this is what we're gonna screw through to attach it to the wall. These -- the plastic legs here. Can see their adjustable. All the cabinets come with only installation screws and hardware that you'll need. It's okay Jared we'll check back with -- later when your farther along."

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