Kitchen base units not straight
Kitchen base units not straight
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dave7108

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277 posts

176 months

Friday 23rd January
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I'm replacing some kitchen cupboards with like for like units. The old ones had a spill and were not any good. When the old units went in my father in law cut 3cm off the back of the circled unit as the wall is quite out. We now want to add a freezer but if I cut 3cm off that cupboard then il need to trim the back of the freezer which I can't do obviously. I'm finding this quite tricky. What's the best way? I'm quite
Guessing I could put the freezer on the other wall which is all straight.





Baldchap

9,346 posts

114 months

Friday 23rd January
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If you're replacing the units just start in that corner, bring the run forward. Doesn't matter if there's a gap behind as you cover the gap with a clad on end panel.

Baldchap

9,346 posts

114 months

Friday 23rd January
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Also in the photo that fridge wants to be 18mm farther forward as the units will have doors, so post-Friday-pub me doesn't quite understand the problem.

Simpo Two

90,894 posts

287 months

Friday 23rd January
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Baldchap said:
If you're replacing the units just start in that corner, bring the run forward. Doesn't matter if there's a gap behind as you cover the gap with a clad on end panel.
If the wall has a 3cm convexity will the worktop be deep enough to reach the wall on either side? The back of the worktop would of course have to be cut to fit unless there's a chunky upstand.

dave7108

Original Poster:

277 posts

176 months

Friday 23rd January
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Not sure if it's clear but the door is resting up against it to show. Thanks.

dave7108

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277 posts

176 months

Friday 23rd January
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I was confused, you meant the unit not the fridge door!

g40steve

1,169 posts

184 months

Saturday 24th January
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dave7108 said:
I'm replacing some kitchen cupboards with like for like units. The old ones had a spill and were not any good. When the old units went in my father in law cut 3cm off the back of the circled unit as the wall is quite out. We now want to add a freezer but if I cut 3cm off that cupboard then il need to trim the back of the freezer which I can't do obviously. I'm finding this quite tricky. What's the best way? I'm quite
Guessing I could put the freezer on the other wall which is all straight.




The quality of house building is shocking & just because rooms look square & plumb, put a laser on them & it will be very different.
Walls bowing in & out & square cupboards something has to give.

RGG

977 posts

39 months

Saturday 24th January
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Have you fixed the units on the left?
It looks like you have?

The solution I can see is the freezer needs to be positioned and then that becomes the reference point for the unit to the left.
Meaning that unit will now be proud of the wall?
The work surface might then also be proud of the wall? - or at least have an uneven fit to the wall.

Maybe and upstand or some other solution is now required to result in a decent finish along that back wall.

Have I read and understood this very well?

C Lee Farquar

4,157 posts

238 months

Saturday 24th January
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I wanted my fridge freezer to go back by a similar amount. I removed the plaster and ground a small amount off the thermalites behind.