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Fitting
Doors and Drawers
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Just
Doors
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Measuring doors
and drawers
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We recommend
you do a rough sketch of your units from the front, drawing the wall units
above the base just as you see them. Do a drawing for each run of units.
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Measure
each door and drawer, transferring the measurements to your drawing. Measure
in mm.
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If doors/drawers
have machined edges, making them difficult to measure from the front, open
the door and measure from the inside.
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When you've
finished your sketches and done all you measurements, transfer the details
to our order form.
Door and drawer sizes
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Carcasses come in standard sizes.
Base units (excluding the plinth) are usually 720mm high. Wall units are
also 720mm high, as well as 600mm and 900mm. Widths are standardised
- 300mm, 400mm, 500mm, etc.
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It is normal to make the door/drawer
slightly smaller than the unit it is going to fit on. For example, a carcasse
that is 720mm high and 500mm wide, would have a door 715mm high and 496mm
wide. This allows for a small gap around the door, otherwise all the doors
and drawers would be touching.
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The standard heights
that drawers are manufactured in are: 115,140, 175, 210 and 283mm
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The standard heights
of doors are: 455, 535, 570, 715, 897, 1245, 1500, 1735, 1965 and 2155mm
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The standard widths for
doors and drawers are: 296, 396, 496, and 596mm
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The maximum door dimensions
are 2300mm high and 630mm wide
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Any door/drawer
narrower than 250mm won't be able to have a design on it (it's too narrow
and won't look right) and any drawer less than 140mm high will not have
a design on it for the same reason.
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Important!
Many old kitchen have flush handles - be aware that if you fit new doors/drawers
with new knobs or handles these will stick out more. Problem? You may find
that in the corners, drawers will foul each when pulled out. We do have
a solution for this - please contact us for details.
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Remember
that you don't have to exactly replicate what you have - you can change
units from doors to drawers, and vice versa. You can change the way a door
opens by putting the hinges on the opposite side.
Measuring Hinge holes
and where to drill them
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Doors
do not come with pre-drilled 35mm hinge holes. We can drill them for you
if you give us the locations (we charge £1.50 per door), or, you
can drill them yourself if you feel competent.
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Doors
of upto 900mm have 2 or 3 hinge holes, 3 in a 1245mm door and full size
larder/bedroom door has 4 holes.
Pelmet,
Cornice and Plinth
Pelmet
is the trim below wall units, cornice is the trim above. Plinth
is the strip below the base units (sometimes called kick board). All sold
in lengths of 2.4m. When ordering to be generous (you'll have lots of off-cuts).The
width of plinth is 150mm - we can supply it wider if necessary. Plinth
is also useful to make fillets (filler strips between units and the wall).
End
Panels
We
supply end panels made to measure, or in standard sizes (base 900mm H x
600mm W, wall 720mm H x 300mm W, larder 2200mm H x 600mm W). When fitting
panels we always allow the front edge to overlap the front of the carcass
by 7 or 8mm - this hides the gap where the door meets the carcass and looks
very neat. Panels are available plain, or with tongue and groove design.
If you have an extractor above the hob, you'll probably need 'cooker cheeks'
- a pair of small panels that fit below the extractor to cover the exposed
cabinet sides.
Corner
Posts
In
corners there is usually a corner post between the 2 adjacent doors - this
post can be removed and a new one put back in it's place. These are not
generally of a standard size - if you give us the mesurements, we can reproduce
it.
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