Gun cabinet install - mark first or drill through

[hairlesshunter]

no1

 

[Kalahari]

Get a huge heavy cabinet, it will weigh so much nobody will be able to move it anyway.

David

 

[Camdig]

No1 but would definitely level cabinet up in all directions before marking holes.

 

[jb1]

One of my larger cabinets was fixed with Sikaflex. It was checked by what was then quite burly bloke and he was happy with it, he trued to pull it off the wall while I wiped the sweat from my brow. Lol

 

[shakey jake]

I drilled the holes at an angle with cabinet in place, doesnt take much to avoid clashing with the sides

 

[Longstrider]

Make certain to know what you are drilling into. Fitting a cabinet for a mate I drilled down into the poured concrete floor of the room (fairly new build house) only for my 13mm drill bit to hit (perfectly centrally) the 13mm copper gas pipe buried in the concrete, severing it completely. When I shouted to him about it he wandered in with a lit cigarette asking what all the fuss was about !

 

[Bavarianbrit]

Get a huge heavy cabinet, it will weigh so much nobody will be able to move it anyway.

David

German law allows empty cabinets over 250kg to be free standing.
Source some large cardboard sheets as used in delivering big tvs maybe from Currys back wall dumpster and scribe the outline and the 4x holes then you have a template. A hardboard sheet would do it too.