Under oven custom drawer

GeorgePowerFinch

Hi everyone,
I've taken the plinth off the cabinet underneath my oven, there's a gap there which could be used for something useful. I can get a hinge for the plinth to make it open and close but I was wondering if there's any custom or universal under oven pull out drawers you recommend or have used in the past for this type of situation? There's actually quite a bit of space (W: 40cm, H: 10cm, 40cm) this is the space I have between the wooden block raisers. 

Photos attached. Any help would be appreciated  

Belenus

What does your oven manual say about clearance underneath for ventilation etc?

You could probably get a custom drawer made but it is unlikely to offer you much useful storage space as the wooden risers take up a lot of the available width and the drawer sides and runners etc will take more of that width.

You could put a hinge as you suggest or magnetic catches on the cover panel that you have removed and use the space to store flat items such as trays, large chopping boards etc. You will get more in that way than if you have a drawer made up.

Get that electric cable safely out of the way, perhaps by dropping it into the void at the rear.

Can you remove the oven and replace the wooden risers with narrower but still sufficiently strong and stable blocks? That would increase the available storage width.

starving_artist

Subject to the above, Locksonline sell all the component parts to make a plinth drawer

Owain_Moneysaver

Remove the blocks. The oven should be supported by a horizontal shelf.
Then all you need are:
1. Handle (unless you have a handleless style of kitchen)
2. base - chipboard
3. Left and right drawer runners, these screw to the sides of the unit and to the edge of the chipboard base
4. back - to stop things sliding off the drawer base.
5. some L brackets to attach the drawer front to the base. 
Drawer runners from ebay etc, the rest is oddments of wood from the bits box. 

flashg67

Just wondering if the usual oven support shelf was removed as the oven was a tight fit at the top edge (can't see from the photos) - if there is room, as above, reinstate the shelf before using the spaces as is, or making a customer drawer, say from ply or similar

FreeBear

Owain_Moneysaver said: The oven should be supported by a horizontal shelf.

My built-in oven sits on a shelf, which is in turn, supported by a couple of strips of MFC to match the oven housing. Attached a pair of draw runners to these supporting strips, and have a small draw there. The draw kit came from B&Q as I recall, not too expensive.

Having lived with it for a couple of years now, it probably isn't worth the effort as it is barely big enough to hold a couple of very shallow baking trays.

jennifernil

You can buy drawer kits in various sizes from Trade Hinges.  You get the correct height and depth, then make the width to suit, supplying your own base and back, my husband has made  about 30 of them over the years, to fit various units for us and our daughter.  Not cheap, but very good quality metal sides and fully extending runners.
Agree that oven should sit on a shelf, Ikea units come with 2 full depth metal support brackets for such a shelf, pretty sure you could buy those somewhere.