Ikea kitchen - drawer under the hob?

Alisha2008

Hi,

We are having a new kitchen fitted soon and yesterday went to IKEA to take a look. We were surprised to see that the wide drawer units (with 3 drawers, 1 for cutlery and 2 deep ones for plates/pans), can't go under the hob, as the first drawer does not open when a hob is on top (gas or electric).

We've had another 2 kitchen quotes (Howdens & Wren) and we have the same wide drawers under the hob, with no problem opening the top one.

Anyone knows why the Ikea one does not open? it means changing the whole design to have the cutlery somewhere else...

jimbo_the_jetset

I have a 2009 Ikea kitchen and have the said 3 drawers (top shallow and bottom two deep) under both the (Ikea) oven and the (Ikea) gas hob.

It was a bit of a squeeze with the gas supply but not really a problem.

Alisha2008

Thanks jimbo, in the IKEA shop none of the kitchens on display have the drawer that opens under the hob (we cheked all of them!), so we assumed it's not possible to mount it like that... maybe it's just more difficult!

keystone

Ikeas standard base unit that a hob is normally mounted above does not have a drawer in the top. Its just a plain front. Its all to do with the unit construction - in particular the two metal bars across the top front and back that allow a hob (or sink as the case many be) to be just dropped in without unit modification and as Evo has pointed out you don't modify their units unless you are prepared to lose the warranty on the ones you modify.

The reason the ones in the showroom don't open is because the hobs are on those standard units and a handle has been fitted just to finish it. That doesn't mean that what you want doing can't be accommodated with an Ikea kitchen but it will need a small bit of work. The main thing you need to worry about is that the drawer will actually open under the hob and not foul it. Inany case I dislike the practicality of drawers opening directly under the hob. Leave it open, tip the pan and you have a drawer full of something warm and probably sticky! Thats personal prefeernce though - you might be quite OK with it.

Cheers

jennifernil

We don't have an IKEA kitchen, but we have fitted an IKEA drawer box (that opens) directly under the hob instead of the hob control panel that was originally mounted in a fixed drawer front.

The drawer box is not the full height of the front, so opens easily below our ceramic hob. Our worktops are only 28mm thick, so the hob does come a little below the underside of the worktop.

jimbo_the_jetset

keystone wrote: »

Its all to do with the unit construction - in particular the two metal bars across the top front and back that allow a hob (or sink as the case many be) to be just dropped in without unit modification and as Evo has pointed out you don't modify their units unless you are prepared to lose the warranty on the ones you modify.

Didn't know that? Think ours was just a standard cabinet, no metal bars. Didn't need any modification though?

It really depends on the combination of the thickness of the worktop (thicker will give more clearance) and the depth of the hob (shallower better).

keystone

No. I was trying to offer the poster an expnation of why it is probably like that in the showroom. I did say it doesn't have to be like that.

Cheers