Kitchen Renovation Cost Sanity Check
Hi, I was hoping to get some people's experiences with recent kitchen renovation costs. I have a dated galley kitchen (think a longer, skinny room with 70s wood cabinets, sheet linoleum floors, roughly...
View ArticleHow can I straighten a bowed laminate kitchen worktop
Hi I bought a worktop.but it's slightly bowed up at the end where I have a cut out for the hob I'm.wondering if there's some way to straighten it quickly? Maybe steam or a heat gun and weight? Thanks
View ArticleCooker hood replacement has different size duct/vent pipe
Our new hood has a round pipe where our old one had a rectangular pipe which is smaller. How would you recommend we connect the new to the old pipe sending the steam through our attic to the outside -...
View ArticleDrawer runners too thick
I'm trying to find drawer runners to fit to an old kitchen. The issue is that all the available runners are too thick to fit the gap between the drawer unit and the kitchen unit. Most drawer runners...
View ArticleMatt sealant
Hi I am trying to match a sealant on a kitchen worktop to wall rather than have to re do the whole lot. However the sealant in question is translucent and has at matt finish rather like frosted glass...
View ArticleBroken plastic kitchen worktop joint - how to fix/replace?
I've just moved house and am trying to spruce things up myself. The kitchen worktop itself is ok but two of the plastic joints between worktop pieces are in a poor condition as you can see from the...
View ArticleStove top thermal protection failing
I apologize in advance if I do not have the right terms, hopefully you will understand what I mean to ask. So, we bought a Samsung brand stove top (NA75J3030AS), we have been using it for the last 6...
View ArticleMissing hinge plate
Hello kitchen fitters View attachment 93751 forum, I hope you can help me out. I am installing a kitchen for my daughter and have come to fit a cupboard door to her integral washing machine but I am...
View ArticleCooker plinth boxed in
Hi - i need to level my cooker but the floor fitted has boxed in the cooker plinth. One edge is above the floor level and can be moved while the other end is boxed in. Any suggestions on who to lift...
View ArticleDouble oven to single oven
Our old oven has broken and we have replaced it with single oven instead. The single takes up alot less space. We would like to raise the oven so it is not sitting on bottom unit so it reduce back...
View ArticleAdhesive for glass splashback
I have a white glass splashback to fit onto a painted wood panel wall. The splashback is white glass but ever so slightly translucent. What might be the best way of fixing it in place? It came with 2...
View ArticleHowdens integrated microwave stopped working. Advice?
Since we moved in, we've had an integrated microwave from Howdens (a Lamona HJA7043 microwave & grill) that appears to have stopped working. Tried everything and I expect it's just age & a lot...
View ArticleWilsonart Earthstone Worktop
Has anyone fitted these. I fitted some for a customer about 3 years ago. When I fitted them, I did the joints and cut outs and put them in position on the cabinets. Next day when I returned they were...
View ArticleHow much pricing info on a quote.
View attachment 94225 We are currently almost three weeks into a standard kitchen install. Which has been beset by bad communication and mishaps. Thankfully we are not living in the house! I just had...
View ArticleKitchen Regulations
Hi, We have just had a new kitchen fitted and the fitter has made a lot of cuts to the backboards that weren't there in the previous kitchen, when I asked him about then I was told they are to comply...
View ArticleCooker hood
Hi My cooker hood extractor motor sounds like it is about to fail, hums and doesn't move initially or it screams for the first minute before working as it should. I've removed it as I thought it may...
View ArticleScrewed through Kitchen Worktop Please HELP
So I had to replace the tap this weekend and the new tap was a much better build quality with more weight to it. The extra weight of the tap was slightly lifting the sink at the back. When I looked...
View ArticleCorner Post too short
Hi all, hoping for some advice, first kitcken fitting attempt it was going OK until I checked the corner posts. Kitchen is from howdens a clerkenwell handless kitcken. The problem is when everything is...
View ArticleSoil pipe box
Hi there, having a kithen fitted and the fitter has cut art of the soil box cover off to accommodate a turntable unit and am wondering if this is acceptable or a complete bodge, any help most appreciated
View ArticleQuarry tiles
Does anyone know what the lighter orange quarry tile colour is please? Terracotta and red is much darker than ours. Our rental property has exactly the same colour, so it's not like it's an unusual...
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