Howdens 600 sink unit

HHarry

Wouldn’t it be more usual to have Drawer line doors below a sink?  A fake drawer front to hide the sink and a shorter door?

I think the cabinet has been drilled for a shorter door, but they’ve used a full height door.

housebuyer143

I think once the kitchen is done you won't even notice it. How often would you open the sink door and then stare at the cut out? You are going to forget about it very quickly...

Doozergirl

HHarry said:

Wouldn’t it be more usual to have Drawer line doors below a sink?  A fake drawer front to hide the sink and a shorter door?

I think the cabinet has been drilled for a shorter door, but they’ve used a full height door.

I agree.  

Drawerline is the traditional configuration for a sink unit but the highline doors look a lot nicer from the outside and it gives a more modern, streamlined look.  I'd rather have the notch than a dummy drawer and smaller door. 

The inside of a sink cabinet is never the prettiest part of a kitchen.  I think Leon W had the right answer for fitting the hinges but in the grand scheme it wouldn't really bother me.  

mi-key

Kakes88 said:

Leon_W said:

The problem isn't with the carcass but the door that's fitted to it.  It's obvious that the door has the hinge location too high and the only way to get the hinge to close properly is cut the carcass.  The only other way of doing it is to lower the hinge location on the door but that would leave an ugly routed rebate visible when you opened the door.

If it were me, I'd have cut another rebate in the door lower down to fit the hinge and clear the carcass, then fit a plastic blank into the original door hinge location point (like on the front leading edge of the door in your photos) .  That cutout in the carcass is quite ugly but in the grand scheme of things, when the doors shut who's going to notice ?

Thank you for your reply. 

We hate the cutout a lot and just trying to figure out what to do. We’re meant to be having the worktop installed on Monday, but now we’re honestly considering pushing it back in order to get the carcass replaced. 

Oh the joys of a renovation 🙃

How often are you really going to sit there looking at the open sink door? If it really bothers you that much, ask the fitters to cut it level all the way along rather than having the notch.

A replacement carcass is 99% likely to have the pre-drilled holes in it in exactly the same place. 

In reality you are going to see if for probably less than a minute a week, so I would just live with it. 

mi-key

HHarry said:

Wouldn’t it be more usual to have Drawer line doors below a sink?  A fake drawer front to hide the sink and a shorter door?

I think the cabinet has been drilled for a shorter door, but they’ve used a full height door.

If it was drilled for a shorter door the hinge would be a lot lower. It has been drilled for a full height door, just slightly too high!

Kakes88

Leon_W said:

What I don't get is that the carcass would usually have the holes pre-drilled to locate the hinge screws.  There is no way on earth those holes would have been in such a position that you have to make a "cut out".

Equally, door hinge spacing is pretty standard, but in your photos the hinge location seems quite high up on the door ?

Are the doors from somewhere else other than Howdens ?  I can't see Howdens making such an error but maybe they have.  Perhaps your issue is with them rather than the fitters who've only done thier best with the door and carcass they were supplied with.

The doors are from Howdens. We do think that it could be their error, so we’ll give them a call once they’re open tomorrow and ask. 

My only issue with the fitters is I wish they had told us and then we could have come to a solution together. What you have suggested would have been ideal. 

sugar-walsh

When you have stuff in the cupboard you genuinely won't see this. I have no idea what this bit of my cupboards look like and I love my kitchen. You will open the door and immediately look down at the contents, not stare at the little bar thing.
Personally I really wouldn't sweat it or delay anything, it can become expensive and if your fitters have you scheduled for certain dates, bumping them could possibly mean longer than expected delays if they're busy.

grumbler

sugar-walsh said:

When you have stuff in the cupboard you genuinely won't see this.

This depends. The defect will never be hidden by any stuff and would bug me.  For the money people pay for instillation they can expect better than this.

I's obviously an error - either the installer's or Howdens' - and it has to be corrected.

sugar-walsh

@grumbler i don't mean it's hidden, I just mean you look at what's in the cupboard, not the construction of it. 

I just think sometimes you need to pick your battles and this isn't one I'd personally bother with. But yep, if the op is bothered, they should just get it replaced. 

FreeBear

grumbler said:

sugar-walsh said:

When you have stuff in the cupboard you genuinely won't see this.

This depends. The defect will never be hidden by any stuff and would bug me.  For the money people pay for instillation they can expect better than this.

It would annoy me too. As would the lack of a back panel. Stuff is going to fall in to the gap at the back, never to be seen again.