Cupboard doors - Integrated - do i need carcass?

premkit

point to look for when buying kitchens, some sheds and online shops will sell a 600 hl base unit for say £80 and an appliance door for 75 there will be a small difference between them both so if you want some other units for a utility,family, garage. you will be buying a unit for peanuts with all the spare bits, legs, hinges.

G42

premkit wrote: »

point to look for when buying kitchens, some sheds and online shops will sell a 600 hl base unit for say £80 and an appliance door for 75 there will be a small difference between them both so if you want some other units for a utility,family, garage. you will be buying a unit for peanuts with all the spare bits, legs, hinges.

If doing this, you would probably have to fill the pre-cut hinge holes on the door with a hard filler as the new appliance hinge holes would more than likely not line up. Appliance doors come with no hinge holes to allow for the different height requirements of each appliance. Personally, I would go for the correct doors as boring into a combination of filler/wood could leave the hinge hole less than full strength and could give problems in the future.

knocklyon

Excellent! thanks for this. Will hunt down doors only on ebay! and let builder suss out holding up work-top!

many thanks everyong

Meepster

If there are units either side of the appliance, that will be sufficient to hold the worktop up. If one of the appliances is at the end of a run, then you will need an end support panel to hide the side of the appliance and also to support the worktop.
I presume that the company you got the solid surface from are fitting it for you? They will know how to fix over the appliances etc.

If you need any more help (planning, advice etc.), just let me know.

Saffy111

This is really useful information here - thanks to everyone who's contributed so far!

I'm currently installing a kitchen myself and due to the tiny size of my kitchen space I have several appliances next to each other, under counter fridge, under counter freezer and free standing oven for example. I was told by B&Q to place end support panels inbetween the appliances to support the worktop. I'm just getting a laminate worktop, are all these panels necessary?

Any advice will be great, I really am not sure about this!

Thanks!