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I'm so sick of the stupid wall units installed by the previous owner. They have a fancy glass-strip sliding door which is supposed to look all slick and modern.
🔹To make a slot/track for the sliding door to go, the cabinets are effectively a small shallow cabinet inside the bigger shell. This means they have even less space inside, than a normal cabinet would - I can't store any but my smallest size plates else the door won't close.
🔹The plastic clips that hold each glass strip on the track are brittle and weak. Not up to the daily wear-and-tear of being pulled/pushed to slide. The first clip on one cabinet snapped before we even moved in. The first clip on the other cabinet snapped within weeks after that - which left me holding big a glass strip in my hand, luckily I wasn't so startled that I dropped it.
🔹The glass strips don't appear to be toughened glass. When we threw it away, DH accidentally put the bin bag down a bit hard, we heard it shatter inside the newspaper wrapping and when we peered inside it was all shards not little squares.
🔹The internal shelves are also glass which means I'm
about how strong and safe they are.
🔹The upshot is that we're using the cabinets as shitty inadequate open shelves because we never close the sliding doors.
Anyway - this is all unnecessary background to explain why I want to do something about them. Idea 1 is to dismantle the interior fittings and keep the outer box, just putting new shelves inside which fully utilise the space. Idea 2 is to get rid completely and install new proper wall units. I prefer Idea 1 because hopefully it is cheaper.
Either way, I need to safely take them apart without breaking a lot of glass. But I can't quite work out how, everything seems to cover everything else and visible screws are somewhat lacking. So in desperation, has anybody had these type of cabinets before and how can I take them apart?