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The majority of ours are contained within a long 'free' standing cupboard mostly because we needed the shelf space as well as wanting to cover the cabinets.

I used Contiboard to disguise mine as a double wardrobe. There probably wasn't any need to - it was more a case of "I wonder if I can?"

One of the guys at my gun club was able to drag his into the loft and fixed it to the wall there. I have a large fitted wardrobe and mine is inside that, fixed to the wall with anchor bolts and through the base of it, into the floor using 12mm coach bolts. If you have enough space in any wardrobe, you can always remove the back panel and move the thing over your cabinet to hide it.

I'm pretty unimpressed by the extra 40% postage if you live in the Highlands
Get a good local artisan cabinet maker to make you something similar

I won't use companies that apply such levies or use such couriers.
They are not levies, they are reflection of cost. What is your justification ?
Unlike a parcel with a flat rate, usually the cost of the delivery of a bulky item such as those type of furniture is calculated by taking in consideration the cubic volume & the distance.
In essence, a flat rate would be asking clients living closer to the seller's premises to subsidize those living in the outposts of the Westminster Empire.

I like very much the oak style cabinet in the 1st picture of the post

froggy wrote:I'm pretty unimpressed by the extra 40% postage if you live in the Highlands
Get a good local artisan cabinet maker to make you something similar

I won't use companies that apply such levies or use such couriers.
They are not levies, they are reflection of cost. What is your justification ?
Unlike a parcel with a flat rate, usually the cost of the delivery of a bulky item such as those type of furniture is calculated by taking in consideration the cubic volume & the distance.
In essence, a flat rate would be asking clients living closer to the seller's premises to subsidize those living in the outposts of the Westminster Empire.

I like very much the oak style cabinet in the 1st picture of the post

Excuse my being slightly off topic, I think the issue people (myself included) take with extra charges for out lying postcodes is that we've been spoiled by the royal mail -

We guarantee delivery by 9am to more than
98% of all UK addresses depending on the
service selected. By 9am delivery is subject to
recipient availability.

Some of the delivery companies charge extra for the Scottish Borders! - jings - you have to pass there to get to Edinburgh and Glasgow for goodness sake.

My cabs are just bolted to a wall in my study with no effort to conceal them; Police Service of Northern Ireland and previously the Met were happy enough. I reckon disguising cabinets becomes an issue for those folks who only have 'public' spaces in their houses.

I resent getting stiffed most times I order stuff from the mainland (I now live in Northern Ireland having moved from London five years ago). Some companies just take the p*ss when calculating carriage so whenever possible 'free carriage' firms get my business or I insist they send stuff via Royal Mail (one price for the whole of the UK). Mrs Death2Ticks ordered two pieces of furniture from London and was quoted £600 just for carriage to NI; she got on the phone to a local Belfast haulage firm and got a quote of £120 so they did the pick-up in London and even carried the stuff into our house.

froggy wrote:
I won't use companies that apply such levies or use such couriers.
They are not levies, they are reflection of cost. What is your justification ?

Because I have the choice of not paying the levies.

Of course, oomans, you could always hide you cabinets and preshus stuff down here in the sett...

Lots of folks have really no choice but to fix their cabinets in the loft (or other relatively difficult place to access) due to only having those 'public' spaces in their houses. Inconvenient access could mean that the gun owner puts off locking his tackle away after use and we all know the potential risk that doing that involves ... there's another thread on here about the Peelers demanding unannounced inspection access.

I did once have my stuff in the attic. Never again. Rusty, rusty.