Bowed Kitchen cabinet doors, opinions please

Rhino666

Hello

I had a lovely kitchen installed and completed around July 2023.

Unfortunately there is an issue as all the cabinet and pantry doors, made, I assume, of plastic coated MDF have bowed. They have all bowed outward, so the bottom and top edges have bowed outward relative to the centre. Unsupported drawer fronts made of the same material have also bowed. If I put a straight edge on the 197cm pantry doors, the bow creates a central gap of about 9mm. The 72cm doors are bowed to about a 4mm gap, so relatively similar to the pantry doors. To some extent this is unsightly but it is also starting to get to the point where it is interfering with the hinge action and closing.

The kitchen is not damp and does not get particularly cold or hot, so I am thinking there must be issue with the plastic coating process that I had expected to stop this sort of thing happening.

I would really appreciate other opinions.

bjorn_toby_wilde

Well it’s certainly not what you would expect to happen. Have you spoken to the installers? I know it’s 3 years old but you have a right to expect kitchen doors to last a lot longer than that.

Friends of mine had a problem with peeling on doors that were four years old. The installers (a local company) took it up with their suppliers who replaced the lot FOC.

Rhino666

Thanks for your comment, I am inclined to agree.

I have the well respected planner who dealt with the Quartz worktops coming round to do a little remedial finish work next month. Assuming he agrees with us, will get on to the installer. At the end of the day, the installer would have bought in the finished doors, so they would just be facilitating a resolution that should not cost them anything.