Remove Med Cabinet

[rhartman911]

I have a Wildwood Heritage Glenn Lite trailer and the medicine cabinet is right over the sink makes it hard to get into sink so I would like to remove it and place it behind the toilet this would give me adequate room to use sink. My question is how is the Medicine Cabinet attached to the wall I see no screws

[laknox]

rhartman911 wrote:
I have a Wildwood Heritage Glenn Lite trailer and the medicine cabinet is right over the sink makes it hard to get into sink so I would like to remove it and place it behind the toilet this would give me adequate room to use sink. My question is how is the Medicine Cabinet attached to the wall I see no screws

Have you tried contacting Forest River's Wildwood division and asking them how it's attached? If it =does= turn out to be tape, use fishing line to cut it, if you have enough room on the sides to get around the cabinet without damaging it. We used that to pull a big mirror off a wall at home that was stuck on with what looked like tar.

Lyle

[Kittykath]

Friends of ours also moved their medicine cabinet for the same reason. The double stick tape damaged the wallpaper in the process, and they also hung a large mirror over their oops. Looks great!

Speaking of RV mirrors, we spotted two mirror/cabinet installments when RV shopping that left us scratching our heads. In one unit, the cabinet was attached so high, I had to stand on tiptoes to see myself or reach anything. The other was centered on the wall rather than over the sink. Awkward.

These RV designers need to do a "real people" check on their designs.

[meleavingsoon]

You may not see any exposed screws....My guess is you can remove the interior finished skin inside the cabinet and expose a cleat at the wall where the installer at the factory will have used screws to attach the cabinet to the wall.

I learned this is the way mine is constructed when I removed a cabinet to cut it down in order to accommodate a larger TV. They use the void created with this construction as a wire chase when running electrical wires.

Hope that makes sense...if not PM me and I will try to explain better.

Thanks,
Phil

[Fulltimer50]

While you didnt give the model/year, I dont see a wood cabinet being stick to the wall as being an option. Keep looking for screws some where.
🙂

[rhartman911]

Thanks everyone-It has fiberglass siding I am thinking glue/two sided tape. I don't think it will bother me as much up behind the toilet really tired of hitting my head into it when using the sink. Know how to remove it without damaging the wallpaper if I do damage it I will put a mirror (just a mirror) on the wall

[rhagfo]

What type of siding on the outside of the 5er?

If Aluminum then attached from the outside before the siding went on, if fiberglass then some way attached from the inside.

[NJRVer]

Just make sure when you move that over the toilet you don't change from hitting your head when you use the sink to hitting your head when you sit on the toilet.

When we were at Hershey one manufacturer, I forget who, had mounted a huge shelf unit over the toilet.
Trouble was it was about two feet above the toilet. My wife and I both looked at each other and said "How in the world do you sit on the toilet with that shelf where your head would be?"

[GPG52_]

The two face tape theory might be the issue.
Being a lite trailer it may have little or sparsely spaced studs (or in some cases laminated walls) which would make screwing wall mounted lite cabinets challenging. So it could be conceivable that the lite weight medicine cabinet would be glued or tapped to the wall.
Best to check the trailer spec's or contact the manufacturer for some insight. GPG

[PRodacy]

Could also be double stick tape.

[robrose1]

Might be mounted from back before exterior is added.

[newman_fulltime]

Stapled