Fitting kitchen corner unit

[mjbarnard]

Installing kitchen cabinets into utility room. Using a 1000mm corner unit. There is a base unit corner post to offset it from the connecting units along the adjoining wall.

Looking at the corner post, the sensible sequence to line everything up seems to be - fit doors to both units , then line up corner post between the two doors and fix to base unit.

Is this right?

And if so - is it then possible to join the two cabinets together? Units in a run are obviously easy - but in the corner (due to the corner post) obviously there is a 3cm gap between them. As this is a very small room with only a few units, would prefer to join them together if possible (for stability).

[Steven Briggs]

In message , mjbarnard writes

More or less. Usually there's some dimension info in the assembly instructions or there are pre-drilled dowel/screw holes to fit the corner post.

Yeah, that 3cm gap is where all the contents pushed into the dim and distant recesses of the "corner" cupboard disappear! I normally close off the "hidden" open face (IYSWIM) with a sheet of MFC - generally you've got a few carcass end panels spare from where "decor" ends have been fitted. Add a bit of packing up to the depth of the corner post and you've then got something rigid to screw / bolt through to the adjoining cupboard. YMMV.

[Phil Addison]

You probably won't be able to open the drawers/doors if you loose the corner post gap. It is necessary.

Are you making a U-shaped kitchen, with 2 corners? if so, you can save a bit on the width by chopping a couple of cms off the back of the units making up the two sides of the U. In other words make them a bit less than the standard 600mm depth. This assumes your units have a 100mm or so dead space behind the backboard of the cupboards.

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