Wickes Kitchen Unit seem to have expanded in size.

smiffy

Back in May this year I had a new Wickes kitchen installed. The design we went for their Intelliga handleless design which has vertical and horizontal aluminium trim around each unit.

It was all fitted by a local kitchen fitter and looked great.

However, three months on, and we have a strange problem where it looks like the units have expanded in height by around 3mm.

This probably wouldn't be noticeable, apart from the Intelliga design has metal vertical trim between each unit, and the metal was cut to the exact height on the unit at installation.

Has anyone seen or experienced this before?

grumbler

Can it be that the trim slipped or was installed incorrectly?

victor2

Could it be that the chipboard used for the units has absorbed some moisture and expanded in the 3 months, where the metal trim hasn't?

Rosa_Damascena

victor2 said:

Could it be that the chipboard used for the units has absorbed some moisture and expanded in the 3 months, where the metal trim hasn't?

This would be extremely concerning. Get onto Wickes now, whilst it's still under warranty.

PS I do hope you paid by cc.

Harrywayon

Did he forget to  attach the plinth. We have a wren kitchen and they put clear plinth like this

https://www.google.com/search?q=plinth+kitchen+clear&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiP9Ku-nNDyAhUM8IUKHQmkCG0Q2-cCegQIABAC&oq=plinth+kitchen+clear&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQAzoHCCMQ7wMQJzoFCAAQgAQ6BggAEAcQHjoECAAQHjoGCAAQBRAeOgYIABAIEB46BAgeEApQyt0CWIPlAmDe5gJoAHAAeACAAWGIAeMEkgEBN5gBAKABAcABAQ&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=41YoYc_2BozglwSJyKLoBg&bih=560&biw=360&client=ms-android-tmobile-gb&prmd=isvxn#imgrc=2OVan0norRdnhM


To protect against water . There no way you leave it exposed like that.