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I'm planning on building a plinth base for some cabinets that will go on top of carpet (I'm not at the stage for ripping out carpet just yet).

From my experience it can be a little bit fiddly getting things on carpet to be level, so I'm looking for a bit of advice.

This video from Geoff's joinery shows the general design I have seen when it comes to plinth bases enter image description here

The video uses some kitchen cabinet style plastic adjustable feet, however he does show off some metal ones that would be easier to adjust by drilling a hole through the bottom of any cabinet sat atop it, kind of like Ikea Pax wardrobes:

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I'm just wondering if there was a tried and true method of levelling a plinth like this on carpet?

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  • Metal feet will definitely work if you can’t bring yourself to cut carpet. You can probably even find little caps for your access holes.
    – Aloysius Defenestrate
    Commented Feb 7 at 1:31
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    You can make levelling feet from scratch using common bolts that'll work just fine for this if you want to do this essentially no-cost, and they have the advantage that the contact area of each 'foot' can be absolutely tiny (small enough to be lost in carpet pile). I guess the first thing you should do though is check level in both axes at the proposed site of the cabinets, see how much you need to adjust for.
    – Graphus
    Commented Feb 7 at 7:00
  • FFR, please give context for links included in Qs. Many people won't look at blind links for various reasons (and on mobile may have no way to preview the source or hack one if there's none included). A simple "this video from XXXX" will suffice.
    – Graphus
    Commented Feb 7 at 7:03
  • @Graphus Ive added a bit more to that link description now. Would you be able to show me an example of a DIY levelling foot at all? All I can think of is something like this where I'd have one of those metal threaded doo-dads you hammer into a hole and use my own bolt with the head against the carpet (amazon.co.uk/Adjustable-Levelling-Feet-Toolzia-Furniture/dp/…)
    – physicsboy
    Commented Feb 7 at 9:53
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    "Would you be able to show me an example of a DIY levelling foot at all?" While this is a question in its own right, literally Googling exactly that — DIY levelling foot — will give you tons of results (nearly 700k when I tried it just now) that you can do a shallow or deep dive on as you prefer. Perhaps surprisingly there are many different ways these are implemented, some far far beyond the very basic type I had in mind (hex nut embedded in wood with a bolt threaded through).
    – Graphus
    Commented Feb 8 at 10:24

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