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Guides

Working notes on costing and building fitted cabinetry: how sheet goods are really priced, what a CNC shop needs from you, and the construction details that decide whether a cutlist is right.

What does a fitted wardrobe cost to build?

A full breakdown of one 2400mm run — sheets, hardware, edgebanding and hours — and why the per-cabinet cost falls as the run gets longer.

Sheet goods are not priced by area

Why an area rate plus a waste factor understates a one-off job by roughly a fifth, and what whole-sheet nesting does to the number.

How to send a cabinet to a CNC shop

What an outsourced nesting shop actually wants: layered DXF per part, a parts CSV, and the four questions to ask before the first job.