Tired of my glasses and dishes flying around in the cabinet

[Lata de amor]

Hi All...we just came up with a good solution to our plates and glasses flying around in the cabinet. We had some shelves made of plexiglas at our local " Tap Plastics " location and they are terrific! I've attached a photo.

[AWCHIEF]

Welcome, you photo did not survive the current gremlins haunting the site.

[switz]

Sometimes I wonder if a dab of rubber cement between each plate and the bottom of the storage compartment would hold the stack together and in place.......

[Caffeinated]

The first weekend we had our airstream we parked it in front of our house, which is on a little grade. While loading more stuff into the trailer, I made the mistake of opening up a cupboard that housed all of our Corelle plates, bowls etc. A seemingly endless cascade of plates and bowls poured out, shattering into a gazillion little jagged shards on the dinette table. This tableware had survived over ten yrs of camping in our sob, and didn't make it to the first camp out in the AS. When Corelle shatters, it really makes a mess. We are much more careful now.

[AWCHIEF]

They was a recent Facebook post where an Airstreamer used wire shelving with the lip up from Lowes to partition off their overheads. Very clean and secure looking job.

[Nomad518]

I cut pieces of rubber coated mesh (like you would put under a carpet to keep it from sliding on top of hard surface flooring) on the bottom of our overhead cabinets (like shelf paper would be used). We put all our cups and glasses in one of the overhead galley cabinets and we put them in upside down. They don't slide around and they don't fall out when the cabinet is opened after traveling.

I put the same rubber coated mesh in the other overhead galley cabinet and we got two rubber coated vertical organizers. These things look like the things you would use to organize file folders. Our plates slide in between the dividers vertically (like file folders would do). We have 4 Corell plates, 4 plastic plates, and a bunch of Chinette heavy duty paper plates. Because the plates are in the cabinet vertically, the lip on the outer edge at the bottom of the cabinets keeps them in place. This has worked great. We've never had any damage to our plates and they've never fallen out of the cabinets.

[TG Twinkie]

We store ours on edge in racks similar to those used for Cd's or DVD's.. It always seemed like the dish we wanted was on the bottom of the stack before.


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[Wishing]

We've stored our porcelain china (4 settings, plus a large Corelle bowl (mainly used to cover dishes in the microwave) in the IKEA Skubb boxes-they are perfectly sized to hold stacked plates, bowls and cups in the overhead cabinet. It's been three years and not a single chip.

[RickStream]

I balanced my trailer's running gear.

[3wd67rg]

Originally Posted by AWCHIEF

They was a recent Facebook post where an Airstreamer used wire shelving with the lip up from Lowes to partition off their overheads. Very clean and secure looking job.

Do you have a Photo? Or Link? That would be great!

[AWCHIEF]

No sorry I don't.

[AWCHIEF]

Originally Posted by PammieSue

Do you have a Photo? Or Link? That would be great!

Found it,

[martin300662]

Could just install some Camping World Camco Stack-A-Plate or Walmart Camco Stack-A-Plate.....other retailers/styles are available

[AWCHIEF]

Those are too small to hold my plates,.

[BScott]

My paper plates fell to the floor and would you believe not one broke...

[twobikes]

Lots of extraneous stuff in this blog post, but there is a picture of our overhead using readily available ADJUSTABLE shelves from big box store. Stack dishes on edge...

http://airgo.blogspot.com/search?upd...max-results=35




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[InterBlog]

My dish management solution...

Corelle plates of two sizes go in a check file I got from Staples (yes I did remove the tag) which slides neatly into the gap between the microwave and the cabinet wall. One plate per individual plastic pocket so that they do not rattle.

Bowls, glasses, and cutlery fit into this webbed basket I got at Michaels craft store. Each cutlery piece in its own slot so that they do not rattle on the road.

Total cost about ten bucks.

[Drathaar]

Originally Posted by Lata de amor

Hi All...we just came up with a good solution to our plates and glasses flying around in the cabinet. We had some shelves made of plexiglas at our local " Tap Plastics " location and they are terrific! I've attached a photo.

I spoke with you when you were getting the shelves made, and I agree, they look great! We are thinking about a set for our trailer.

Steve

[RivaHaven]

This is what I made to deal with my dishes and in the same area we made a platform for cutouts for glass and mugs....

[garry]

My wife used some type of rubberized shelf liner cut to size between each plate.
No noise no movement.

I "think" this is it. Very flexible, thin with lots of little holes and feels like rubber.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Con-Tact-...2-12/100388875