BigWallop wrote:

3) To position a built in over near a corner, how much side clearance
should there be to stop the oven scorching the cabinets facing (around the
corner) when the door's open?


Having a oven door opening against anything with a decorative facing is a
no, no in my opinion. It's amazing how much heat emanates from the oven
when the door opens, so it will mark other surfaces with scorch and grease
stains.

It's also a pain from the point of view of accessibility of the oven I
would think.


I guess I don't trust the designers not to tell me to do whatever results
in the most cabinets/expense.

That wasn't the problem we had, they were (in general) just plain
incompetant. One position a dishwasher under a sink, that's simply
impossible, it won't fit.

Decide the best arrangement of appliances, worksurface, etc. yourself
(only you know how you work and what you do most) and then see which
kitchen units etc. can get closest to your ideal.


Mark W.

A kitchen should have cooking and washing up facilities at right angles with
each other for convenient working and hassle free transfer of dishes and
pots. The wet areas should all be together for convenience of plumbing and
drainage. The cooking areas should all be together for convenience of
ventilation and wiring or plumbing of their services.

Positioning things *only* for convenience of wiring/plumbing seems
wrong to me. Postion them to make it easy for them to be used. If
you can also make installation easy as well then so be it but user
requirements are more important than ease of installation.


We were told to remember the triangle form when we designed our kitchen.
The points of the triangle are made up from the storage area (fridge, larder
etc.), the wet area (sink, washing machine, dishwasher, etc.) and the
cooking area (speaks for itself really), with the straight lines between
them being worktop surface for serving up and food preparation areas with
all the knifes and mixing appliances etc.

When the kitchen is laid out in this type of configuration, it's then easy
to find out where the most power sockets are needed and where all the
plumbing needs to go, and then you can get it all this work done before you
start to fit the units.

Just put more sockets than you need everywhere, the cost is trivial
compared with everything else.

--
Chris Green )