ive got to fit some ikea cabinets in our utility room, its a

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ive got to fit some ikea cabinets in our utility room, its about 8/9 units in total so not very big at all.
How do the wall cabinets fit to the wall (its a plasterboard dot and dab) ive read various site suggesting putting battons under the cabinets to take the weight of them.

any tips for the ikea kitchen fitting?

thanks

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Skyedriver said:

What he said

If its a stud wall then its toggle fixings.
And yes a small inconspicuous batten underneath, allows you something to rest them on whilst lifting them up and getting your balance and also allows you to get them all in a line more easily.

Recently fitted an Ikea kitchen, (better than Magnet BTW) and thats the way I would do it.

If you are using base units remember there is no 50mm gap behind for services on Ikea stuff.

hi thanks, ok seems a good way of doing it, i wasnt 100% on the utility gap, i was happy for a homebase kitchen!!
now i've just had a row with the missus and told her we are going down to homebase for them to work something out, all week every night had the missus going on about doing this and doing that, with no utility gap i've got to put the u bend etc in the cupboard... i know its only the utility room but i want it to look good.

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thanks for all the replies haven't got the kitchen we are going to ikea tomorrow evening to get the kitchen, at the moment its just the units and i'll get a worktop from somewhere else.

are the ikea kitchens the same as other makes, no better or worse to fit?

has anyone had ikea plan there kitchen we are hoping to get up there tomorrow night and sit with someone to see if there is another way of using the space that we have.

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thanks once again for all the help and advice, the parents had the kids over tonight so me and the missus went to ikea and had to make a plan on there computer system but someone eventually came to is with us, if anything it helped us on the system and there online planner tool. think we have come up with a workable solution, might post a pic up and see if anyone else can come up with something better.

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Hi everyone, been busy today painting the dinning room, we when to ikea last night and just managed to get it sorted, didnt realise if you planned it using there online planner then save it go into the stre and then you can show the people there to have a look by logging back in.


heres a floorplan, as i say it not a big room, the pink pipes are hot and cold and they come down the wall and then across low ( when they come across the room i will have to box them in i was thinking of creating a full length false wall to hide them all.




heres also a pic of what we will have for ikea aswell

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hi everyone, ive took some pics today of the utility room, got a few probs, the sink is very close to the the sockets, and also the water pipes come down the wall and across and thats where i want the big cupbaord to pull out, ive cut the plaster board away and i reckon i can push the pipes a bit closer to the brick wall and thereby making a few cm's space, the rest i will create a false wall for.

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hi looking to buy a integrated washing machine and a freezer, its for a utility room and we are using a ikea kitchen.

What makes to go for really, i understand miele seems to get the vote but buget is around £450.00 for each appliance.

thanks

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S1_RS said:

Why did you dot & dab the plasterboard on the wall when there's going to be very little of the wall on show. Could it not be take back to bare wall which would make the cabinet fixings easier and give you an extra inch in what is already a tiny room. I assume the remaining wall on show will be tiled anyway?

that bit of plastering is where the tiles were and i took them off the wall and it took the plasterboard with it, in one of the cupboards will be the boiler and ext to that will be the main consumer unit. so a fair bit of wiring in those walls..

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Arthur Jackson said:

Why on earth isn't the tall unit level with the wall units at the top??????

We are having the wall units as flush with the ceiling as possible, missus thinks that if there's a gap left there it becomes a dust trap, so we are going to by an additional door panel and cut it down and put an end panel on the side. The trouble is I was going to a false wall on top of the units but the consumer unit is flush with the ceiling and will be hidden by one of the cupboard housings.

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i give up, still arguing with the missus, i'd rather she just pay the money and get someone in to do the kitchen then me, not looking forward to it and i reckon its going to be really hard to do, it wont look professionally done and so say i'm fed up aint the half of it. she wants integrated on both appliances and she said we can just box in the top of the tall unit and make it look like a false wall. So thanks for all the help and suggestions, shes not going to listen, so i'm not going to bother.... just hope she doesnt think the funds for my car purchase are going to be used!!