TOOLS
PAR
TS
QTY DESCRIPTION
2 Mending Plates per tower section
10 Extra of everything for goofs
QTY DESCRIPTION
1 Ladder
1 Bastard File
1 Countersink Drill Bit
1 Pencil with Big Eraser
1 Jig Saw with sharp blade
1 Loves a Challenge
1 Great sense of Humor
Lots of Patience
1 Stress-reliever mechanism
Can MasterSuite
®
be designed and
installed to work on curved closet walls?
Yes…and no. Curved walls are an obvious
challenge since all of the design sections
are based upon straight lines and 90˚ angles.
If a wall’s curve is too tight, like a wall built
around a small, iron spiral staircase, it may
be impossible to design or build a hanging
or shelf section without obtaining custom-
tooled parts for curved poles or shelves. If
the curve is on a much larger radius, there
are a number of design possibilities which
meet the client’s needs.
PRACTICAL APPLICA
TION
1 Camera (to capture victory shot!)
Fig. 1
Inside the Bubble (Building on a Concave Curve)
First, let’s examine design and installation possibilities for the concave curve (Fig. 1). Along this
curve, depending upon its radius, the best design solution is positioning shelf towers against the
curved back wall, with each of the front edges of the partitions touching. Hanging is not an ideal
solution, as the contents would bump into one another in front of the towers. Additionally, since
double hang or long hang sections use far fewer shelves, the structural integrity of the tower will
be more susceptible to torque. Therefore, as it’s more difficult to fasten the towers to curved walls
for stability than to flat walls, shelving towers are a better design and installation choice.
A further design and installation consideration is the gap behind the center of each shelving tower.
Depending upon your client’s needs and the radius of the curve, you may need to attach backing
to each of the towers on the concave curve to a) maintain stability within the tower, and b) prevent
belongings from falling behind the towers into the gap.
Outside the Bubble (Building on a Convex Curve)
Convex curved walls present a different set of design and installation challenges. Do you really
want to custom cut up to eight to ten shelves for each shelf tower along a convex curved wall? We
don’t recommend it. Not only is it time consuming, but cutting away valuable storage space is not
a wise design choice. On the other hand, convex curves are well-suited for double hanging for a
number of reasons: It requires a minimal number of shelves to custom cut along the curve, and it
utilizes the full wall space side to side and front to back.
The key element to designing double hanging along a convex curved wall is determining the
width of each section. Depending upon the radius of the curve, you may find it necessary to space
each section approximately 24” apart. If the curve is more gradual, you may be able to space each
section up to 30” or 36” apart. We do not recommend spacing a double hang section wider than
36” for stability purposes. In general, the greater the radius of the curve, the wider the section can
Curved Wall
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