cut piece of wood/kitchen

always_sunny

the little piece of wood that sits between the cupboard door and oven needs to be replaced... where can I get it cut? Any ideas?

I don't have tools to cut it straight and since I won't be doing much cutting buying tools seems like a waste of time/money... it's just a straight cut just needs to be done precisely.

spadoosh

Are you on about one like this....



Or more like this?



Ideally you wouldnt be cutting either as it increases the chance of the becoming damaged/peeling over time.

Top one is a filler panel bottom one is either end panel/end support panel.


Any handyman should be able to cut it for you. Fine tooth blade on a circular saw.

always_sunny

spadoosh wrote: »

Are you on about one like this....

This one... they don't make it already cut and need to be cut to size (fair enough) and I have the spare bit from when the kitchen fitter cut it but it's too big... I just the piece cut 2 inches and that's it! B&Q says it's too small to cut

spadoosh

IIRC they need a minimum width of about 500mm to cut at B&Q. I think handyman will be your best bet unless you find a sympathetic employee willing to cut it for you (not that likely). Not many places cut for you, particularly on single pieces.

Know any friends who have done a bit of DIY and have a circular saw?

Jackmydad

Have you got any sort of saw?
I'd cut it by hand with a tenon saw if I didn't have machinery. You still need a square and a sharp knife though.
Mark around the melamine by scoring with the knife, then make the cut on the waste side of the cut, aiming to barely leave the knife mark there. Oh, and watch you don't slip with the knife when marking it!

Job to get a clean cut with melamine type boards with normal DIY machines. The proper machines for handling it have a scoring blade in front of the main blade.

ETA And if you do go down the route I've described, practice on a piece of scrap first, make sure you can get a square cut. It's really not that difficult. Hand tools are more versatile than machines in some ways. Safer, less noise and dust, and more forgiving. Machine tools are cheap at the moment, but it doesn't mean you have to have a machine for one occasional cut.

Murmansk

Find an old fashioned local hardware shop who might do it for you or know someone that would.

MarcTJTD

B&Q's minimum cutting size is 250mm as anything smaller falls through the retaining bars at the back of the timber saw they use.

Just on the off-chance you decide against cutting it and go down the route of trying to buy a pre-cut one:

The panels are called oven filler panels and are available from most kitchen retailers and shouldn't need to be cut at all. Built in single ovens are a standard 600mm wide and a fairly standard height and most base cabinets stand at 700-720mm between plinth and worktop.

B&Q's doors are 715mm and their oven fillers are 115mm x 597mm; Magnet have 704mm doors with 92mm x 597mm oven fillers. JT Dove have both.

Source: Kitchen Designer