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On 15 Oct 2004 (monkey) wrote:

I am embarking on putting in kitchen units (from ikea). The wall with
the run of cabinets is 3.0m exactly, with enclosing walls on either
side. I have balanced 4 sets of 600 units plus 1 500, which allows a
buffer of 100mm to allow for any spacing issues. Crude illustration
below using ascii chars:

gap 3.0m gap
-------------------------------------------------------
|5 | 600 | 600 | 600 | 500 | 600 |5 |
| |_________|_________|_________|_______|_________| |
| |
| |
| |

My question is, do I start the first cabinet in 4-5cm and put a facia
over the gap, or do I start the first cabinet flush with the wall also
the last cabinet also flush to the opposite wall and put the gap in
the middle of the cabinets somewhere?

Whatever you want to do, but unless you want to leave a slot for
storing trays in the middle I'd have all the units together and centred
between the walls. If you do that you can bolt the units together for
greater rigidity and you won't have to worry about the walls not being
quite parallel or vertical, or have to remove skirting board if
present. You might of course have to trim the worktop to fit, or fill a
small gap. You could fix a batten along each side wall,*but with only a
5cm gap I wouldn't bother.

You might want to fit a full 3m fascia board along the bottom rather
than have separate boards for each unit. Check that the floor is level
and if necessary level up the carcases by packing them underneath
before you fit the worktop.

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