Hi

After much searching I have finally found some kitchen door and base
units I like - at IKEA - 'ADEL white'. The only problem is I dont
like any of the worktops at IKEA.

I have found a nice worktop in Wickes - 'smooth black' worktop (not
the shiney plastic looking worktops but has a hard compound on the
chipboard that makes it feel smooth to the touch)

THe problem is IKEA units seem to be a different depth to other
kitchen manufacturers. Their units are all 60cm in depth, their
worktops are 62cm to overhang the units slightly. All the other
stores I have been t, including Wickes, sell 60cm depth worktops.

I have asked at Wickes in Bradford to see if they will cut a worktop
with a depth wider than 60cm but they wont.

Does anyone know of a store around leeds/bradford which sells this
type of smooth worktop and is prepared to cut them deeper than 60cm?

THanks for any help

In article ,
tez writes:
Hi

After much searching I have finally found some kitchen door and base
units I like - at IKEA - 'ADEL white'. The only problem is I dont
like any of the worktops at IKEA.

I have found a nice worktop in Wickes - 'smooth black' worktop (not
the shiney plastic looking worktops but has a hard compound on the
chipboard that makes it feel smooth to the touch)

THe problem is IKEA units seem to be a different depth to other
kitchen manufacturers. Their units are all 60cm in depth, their
worktops are 62cm to overhang the units slightly. All the other
stores I have been t, including Wickes, sell 60cm depth worktops.

I've fitted two IKEA kitches. In one I used Wickes worktops and in the
other, B&Q worktops. They were both a perfect fit on the IKEA units.
Are you sure you haven't measured something wrongly?
Neither are in my house, so I can't actually check any measurements
until I next visit them.

--
Andrew Gabriel

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:05:11 GMT, tez wrote:

Hi

After much searching I have finally found some kitchen door and base
units I like - at IKEA - 'ADEL white'. The only problem is I dont
like any of the worktops at IKEA.

I have found a nice worktop in Wickes - 'smooth black' worktop (not
the shiney plastic looking worktops but has a hard compound on the
chipboard that makes it feel smooth to the touch)

THe problem is IKEA units seem to be a different depth to other
kitchen manufacturers. Their units are all 60cm in depth, their
worktops are 62cm to overhang the units slightly. All the other
stores I have been t, including Wickes, sell 60cm depth worktops.

I have asked at Wickes in Bradford to see if they will cut a worktop
with a depth wider than 60cm but they wont.

Does anyone know of a store around leeds/bradford which sells this
type of smooth worktop and is prepared to cut them deeper than 60cm?

THanks for any help

Another kitchen installer told me that as well. He said the worktops
were deeper than 60cm.

I have been into the Wickes showroom in Bradford and measured the
full depth of the worktops( including the bevelled bit), and checked
the measurments in their kitchen booklet and both were 60cm depth.

The person who install Kitchens showed me a tool (board with holes
in!) which he uses for cutting worktops and there is particular hole
for Wickes worktops which seems to be 616cm. So either Wickes have
changed their worktops depth very recently or I am not understanding
something?

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:05:11 +0000, tez wrote:

Hi

After much searching I have finally found some kitchen door and base
units I like - at IKEA - 'ADEL white'. The only problem is I dont
like any of the worktops at IKEA.

I have found a nice worktop in Wickes - 'smooth black' worktop (not
the shiney plastic looking worktops but has a hard compound on the
chipboard that makes it feel smooth to the touch)

THe problem is IKEA units seem to be a different depth to other
kitchen manufacturers. Their units are all 60cm in depth, their
worktops are 62cm to overhang the units slightly. All the other
stores I have been t, including Wickes, sell 60cm depth worktops.

I have asked at Wickes in Bradford to see if they will cut a worktop
with a depth wider than 60cm but they wont.

Does anyone know of a store around leeds/bradford which sells this
type of smooth worktop and is prepared to cut them deeper than 60cm?

THanks for any help

You will get away with 60cm worktop on IKEA units provided that you dont
have to 'lose' any worktop depth due to :
a) Uneven walls - requiring trimming the worktop.
b) Uneven walls - packing out the base unit forwards.

If the above pertain thenyou will have to buy wider stuff (900mm double
edged?) and trim is down. I beleive that 700mm is also available but from
where, I dunno.



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tez wrote:
[IKEA worktop depth]

Just (today) finished fitting worktops in my new IKEA kitchen, so I know
about this problem.

The standard IKEA base unit + door works out to be exactly 60cm deep, so
if you don't mind the visual effect of the worktop edge being flush with
the doors, you can use B&Q, Homebase, Wickes etc worktops. However as
has been pointed out, this leaves you with nothing to play with in the
event of having uneven walls.

IKEA's own worktops are actually 60.6cm wide, to give a 6mm overhang.

If, however, you want a bigger overhang, or have very uneven walls, you
will need to find wider worktops. The solution I found was to get 65cm
worktop from a local kitchen supplier, and saw it down to the 62cm I
wanted (not hard with a circular saw but bl**dy dusty!) - job done. The
downside was that the local supplier was nowhere near as cheap as the
sheds - about three times the price per metre, in fact.

Incidentally, I put 60cm Homebase worktop on an IKEA base unit in my
utility room and it looks fine - I just wanted the kitchen ones to
overhang a bit.

I'd give you the name of my supplier but I'm nowhere near Leeds or
Bradford. However 65cm worktop seems to be a standard product, any
kitchen place should be able to source it.

--
Tony

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In article ,
tez writes:
Hi

After much searching I have finally found some kitchen door and base
units I like - at IKEA - 'ADEL white'. The only problem is I dont
like any of the worktops at IKEA.

I have found a nice worktop in Wickes - 'smooth black' worktop (not
the shiney plastic looking worktops but has a hard compound on the
chipboard that makes it feel smooth to the touch)

THe problem is IKEA units seem to be a different depth to other
kitchen manufacturers. Their units are all 60cm in depth, their
worktops are 62cm to overhang the units slightly. All the other
stores I have been t, including Wickes, sell 60cm depth worktops.

I've fitted two IKEA kitches. In one I used Wickes worktops and in the
other, B&Q worktops. They were both a perfect fit on the IKEA units.
Are you sure you haven't measured something wrongly?
Neither are in my house, so I can't actually check any measurements
until I next visit them.

--
Andrew Gabriel

IKEA worktops are 606mm deep.
Units are 580mm (carcasse) plus the door thickness (18mm) plus the gap from
the hinge adjustment and door buffer (say 2mm).

Personally, I prefer a slightly greater overhang than this and there is
little margin for scribing to an uneven wall.

I have fitted a couple of none-IKEA worktops to the units, usually spacing
them a few mm from the wall and covering the gap with tiles or an upstand.

On really bad walls I have had to cut and scribe breakfast bars, in place of
standard widths - very tedious since IKEA units have no service void so
can't be cut down, only packed out.

BTW, if you are cutting a mason's mitre on the IKEA worktop and the jig is
designed for 600mm width then don't forget to use a 6mm shim to put the
female cutout in the right place

HTH
Adrian

In article , "tez"
says...
Hi

After much searching I have finally found some kitchen door and base
units I like - at IKEA - 'ADEL white'. The only problem is I dont
like any of the worktops at IKEA.

I have found a nice worktop in Wickes - 'smooth black' worktop (not
the shiney plastic looking worktops but has a hard compound on the
chipboard that makes it feel smooth to the touch)

THe problem is IKEA units seem to be a different depth to other
kitchen manufacturers. Their units are all 60cm in depth, their
worktops are 62cm to overhang the units slightly. All the other
stores I have been t, including Wickes, sell 60cm depth worktops.

I have asked at Wickes in Bradford to see if they will cut a worktop
with a depth wider than 60cm but they wont.

Does anyone know of a store around leeds/bradford which sells this
type of smooth worktop and is prepared to cut them deeper than 60cm?

Why not just use the 60cm worktop that you like, but space it out at the
back with a batten of the correct size to give the overhang you want?
You could cover it with small ceramic tiles or similar to turn a bodge
into a feature :-)