I'm just about to assemble a pack-flat tall kitchen cupboard, designed
as a housing for a built-in fridge/freezer. I was surprised to see
that the cupboard comes with a hardboard back panel: doesn't a
fridge-freezer need a bit (or maybe even a lot) of ventilation at the
back?

The back doesn't appear to do anything beyond helping to hold the
housing square, and I can find other ways to do that; is there any
practical reason why I shouldn't just leave it off?

Incidentally, how exactly does the fridge/freezer fit into the
housing? Does it just sit there, unattached except for the
door-fronts? The cupboard comes with 6" plastic screw-in feet, which
I'm assuming are up to the job of supporting what's going to be quite
a hefty weight.

Thanks in advance.

Bert
http://www.bertcoules.co.uk