Filing Cabinet On Wheels
Buy the best filing cabinet on wheels selected and recommended by interior designers. By Chloe Hughes.
File cabinets are often heavy, cumbersome, and hard to move. But they don't have to be, if you put casters on the base. File cabinet casters are specially designed for your file cabinet that is probably loaded down with lots of papers, creating lots of weight. Never have to hulk yours again, or need a hand truck to move it, with file cabinet casters.
Filing Cabinet On Wheels
Buying Guide
Chloe Hughes
Interior Design Expert
Chloe is a highly-regarded expert in all things vintage and antique. She’s excited to share her vast knowledge with readers and clients wishing to infuse their homes with a mixture of old-time warmth and modern comfort. In addition to her design work, Chloe regularly volunteers at her local community center, teaching DIY projects to adults and kids.
File cabinets can get really heavy with the folders, artwork, maps, legal briefs and blueprints we put in them. That’s why it helps a lot to have a file cabinet on casters. It lets you move your home files or office files easily from area to area.
File cabinets that are mobile help in a large office where a meeting, renovations or an emergency could mean that a file cabinet has to be moved. The ability to do this eases stress on employees and reduces the number of hands needed for the move. Sometimes, even one person can move a file cabinet on casters.
Of course, you can still get one in gray metal, but the file cabinet has evolved. Its changing face means that some items are available in wood, distressed finishes, and pastel colors for wood or metal.
If your home office needs a splash of color, you can get a file cabinet in turquoise, yellow, orange, blue or another color that’s untraditional. If you want a color for home or the office that conveys, perhaps, a more buttoned down or pearl-wearing look, then here’s some advice. Choose a color that matches the color of the office’s desks and tables or choose one that complements the color on the walls.
Some examples of file cabinets lock for safety. Models with five wheels won’t tip over because the third wheel on the front stabilizes the. Another effective anti-tip mechanism is allowing only one drawer at a time to be pulled out.
You can find a file cabinet that has one or more drawers that you can lock for the security of its contents. File cabinets that are rated as fireproof also resist water damage and hamper theft.
File cabinets on wheels can accept letter-size papers or legal-size papers, with some units being able to accommodate both as well as hanging files. They may have two or three drawers or more. Permanent label holders are affixed to some.
In thinking about the needs of the user, the file cabinet on casters can be either tall or low. In fact, some models can fit under a desk. Other models don’t even have to be hidden under a desk because they don’t look like file cabinets. Instead, they file look like a piece of (wood) furniture because their drawers and pulls are hidden behind a cabinet door.
Though not as common as the mobile vertical file cabinet, the lateral file cabinet on casters is also available. Lateral filing is used in work environments where there is a lot of filing to do. These cabinets hold more files than vertical ones since the files are arranged from side-to-side rather than from front to back. Lateral cabinets are set side-by-side and they are wider than they are deep.