Floor
Furniture nest floor
Full-sheet nests for cabinet shops with dust and tooling discipline.
Essentials on this floor
Runbooks to keep nearby
Full sheets every day
Cabinet and furniture shops cut melamine-faced board, MDF and ply in full sheets. The floor is planned around the sheet: loading, nesting, unloading, edging and offcuts, with as few steps as possible between them.
Dust is the hidden job
A busy nesting router produces alot of fine dust. Extraction must be sized for the bed, filters changed on a schedule, and the floor swept daily. Fine MDF dust is a health issue, not just a mess.
Tooling discipline
Compression bits for faced board, a clear dull lane in the foam, and a Friday audit keep edge quality consistent. A chipped edge on a kitchen door is a remake.
Who runs this floor
Cabinet makers with a router operator, an edging person and someone assembling.
A typical week
Sheets are nested and cut in the morning, edged after lunch and assembled the next day. Dust is swept and filters checked every afternoon.
The gear, in one line each
- Router 1212 Shop: Square-metre bed for sign and furniture shops that nest full sheets.
- Dust Booth S: Compact extraction booth for single-router cells in emerging workshops.
- Tooling Starter: End mills and V-bits curated for SA sheet goods and first nests.
Next step
Open the essentials above for specs, layout and care, and keep the runbooks nearby. When you are ready, email cnc@cncpme.co.za with your city, a floor sketch and the floor name in the subject. See projects for shops that ran a similar floor.
