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