Kitchen cupboard holes

lagi

My friend has just had her new kitchen delivered, the carcasses are made up but she will have to fit hinges, doors, shelves etc herself.

Some units were especially made for her kitchen.

There seems to be a lot of holes inside the cupboards. Now some of these are going to be for the hinges, some are going to be for shelves and probably some are going to be for joining the units together. So at the moment its hard to say how many will be used and how many will be left over. But on a white carcassed kitchen shes obviously concerned that there will still be loads left over when its all slotted together.

As anybody else seen something similar, or has somebody got over zealous pre-drilling. She is not very happy.

I said any left overs could be mastic'd or use the plastic pushcaps but has anybody come up with any other solutions?

olias

The only holes present, should be for, as you say, the hinges, shelves and for joining the units together. There will be numerous options for shelving to allow the customer flexibility to adjust the shelves to their needs. The ones not used will be sealed, as you say, with push caps. Any kitchen I have ever bought or owned has been like this, it's how it's done.

Olias

maggie111

Seen it quite often in various cupboards - as to whether they should be there or not, I guess it depends how much she's paying for her kitchen etc etc.

27col

This is perfectly normal. We have found in the past that most of the holes are at least partially hidden by the contents of the cupboards. The alternative is to have the units with virtually no holes. If you have to make your own it can be a right bind. Especially when trying to accurately mark them out and particularly if the cupboard is already assembled. The pre-drilled holes allow for a lot of flexibility in the positioning of shelves etc.

CKdesigner

Hi,

As has previously been said its all down to the quality of the make of kitchen and the price paid for it. Mass produced flat pack kitchens have 'universal' side panels so they are produced with all the different unit variant holes pre drilled so that they only have to produce 1 unit side panel for every different type of base unit. I agree it does look a bit like a pepper pot, its just that type of kitchen.

If you go more 'up market' with your kitchen then obviously the units would be factory made and would only have extra holes in the sides to allow for shelf height adjustment.

lagi

She has spoken to the shop and he said its because the panels are universally made so can be switched side to side. Probably not the best quality, hopefully when its together there won't be many showing.

Thanks, I will tell her its the standard.