Bar on Wheels/casters

[Anonymous]

Has anyone added wheels or casters to the bar plan? If so, any recommendations?

I have not built my bar yet but will start in a week or so. It will be in a large screen porch area so I do want the flexibility to move it around.

At this point I think I will just mount the casters on the base & drop the finish paneling below to hide the casters.

[brimichm]

Be sure to buy good casters. When finished, shelves,etc… the bar is heavy.

[Anonymous]

I found some 2″ casters that work great for smaller versions of the bar.
Each has a load rating of 90lbs, so four should handle a combined load of 360 lbs. More than enough I’d say.

I would recommend only using casters on a short (4 to 6 foot) version of the straight bar.

I am drawing up a portable bar model after the juke box is completed. The juke box (one version) uses the same casters mentioned above.

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[elmalaro]

I made the 8 ft straight bar with a double tap keggerator and made it from solid oak, tile, glass and mirror. As it turned out the thing wound up weighing estimated over 600 lbs (3/4 thick oak plywood is heavy!) I originally planned on having casters on my bar so I could move it ouside to the deck for parties.
About casters, first of all, do not forget that the caster on the bottom will make your bar top higher – like up to 4″ (not a big deal for a regular bar, but for kegger bar, you need all the space you can get inside). I talked to a lot of people regarding casters as well. The other thing about wheels is that with the weight, you will want soft, large wheels. Tiny wheels will have trouble rolling over bumps (like spaces between the deck boards) and hard wheels might make permanant marks in wood, or crack tile. My recommendation is if you are doing a regular bar then get as large and sturdy casters as you can fit under it. For a kegger bar or a heavy regular bar, I’d suggest skipping casters and simply use some 2″ schedule 40 or 80 (as thick as you can get at home depot) PVC pipes – it can be rolled around like a breeze on a couple of those.
I just wound up forgetting about casters on my bar and had to get a small army of people (10) to move it into the house. Even with as heavy as it is, it still moved easy, even across the yard on a couple PVC pipes

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