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Title: kitchen fitting
Post by bushy on Apr 28^th, 2005, 6:53pm

whilst fitting a kitchen today we came across the usual problem of the walls not being square, usually we a re able to overcome this with not too much of a problem but this time the ammount that the walls were out was massive almost 2" over 1.5 m (sorry about the metric and imperial) it took a bit of working out but we managed to sort it out in end by cutting the backs out of some of the units, I was just wondering how other people overcome this cos this doesnt seem ideal!

Title: Re: kitchen fitting
Post by JerryD on Apr 29^th, 2005, 12:32pm

Not ideal I know but you've probably done it the best way :)

Keeping the units square to each other is important as any floor tiling will look dreadful if the plinths don't meet at 90^o

Title: Re: kitchen fitting
Post by woodsmith on Apr 29^th, 2005, 6:44pm

It's the only way to do it, that's why the back of the unit doesn't go right to the back of the unit ;)

Title: Re: kitchen fitting
Post by jasonB on Apr 29^th, 2005, 6:51pm

Unless it's from Ikea >:(

Jason

Title: Re: kitchen fitting
Post by woodsmith on Apr 29^th, 2005, 9:24pm

IKEA :o >:( plumbing is/was all non standard too. Managed to keep away from it since.

Title: Re: kitchen fitting
Post by splinter on Apr 29^th, 2005, 9:40pm

The good old carpenter has to get over it as usual .

Unless there is any painters ,plasters plumbers reading this .

Plumbers why did I say that ;D

Title: Re: kitchen fitting
Post by Dewy on Apr 30^th, 2005, 12:52am

I'm glad that the nearest Ikea is 40 miles away so never got tempted to have a look round even though the regularly make leaflet drops with the weekly free paper.

Title: Re: kitchen fitting
Post by bushy on May 1^st, 2005, 10:23pm

cheers for that everyone, reakon it is the only practical way, oh and the units wernt from ikea, fortunatley by the sounds of it! they were flat pack from a well known DIY store!!!

::)