Measuring doors and drawers

• 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.
• Measure each door and drawer, transferring the measurements to your drawing. Measure in mm.
• If doors/drawers have machined edges, making them difficult to measure from the front, open the door and measure from the inside.
• When you've finished your sketches and done all you measurements, transfer the details to our order form.

• 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.
• 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.
• The standard heights that drawers are manufactured in are: 115,140, 175, 210 and 283mm
• The standard heights of doors are: 455, 535, 570, 715, 897, 1245, 1500, 1735, 1965 and 2155mm
• The standard widths for doors and drawers are: 296, 396, 496, and 596mm
• The maximum door dimensions are 2300mm high and 630mm wide
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• Doors of upto 900mm have 2 or 3 hinge holes, 3 in a 1245mm door and full size larder/bedroom door has 4 holes.
• On the 'Door and Drawer Order Form', you can indicate which side to drill the hinge holes (Hinge L or R), looking at the door from the front. There are 2 columns (Top mm, Bottom mm) to specify the location of the hinge holes as a distance from the top and bottom of the door to the centre of the 35mm hole. For example, you may require holes drilled at  85mm from the top and 100mm from the bottom of a door.

ORDER FORM Click here to see our Door and Drawer order form. We suggest you print off a copy. You can fill it in then call in and see us us - bring your drawings. We can go through what you need and show you samples and colours, etc.