Question for people who have fitted IKEA kitchens

[Derek Doormer]

Hi, As I have just found out.... IKEA cupboards have no service void so as to run pipes etc round the back, so how have people over come this? I have all my pipe work (Like most of us do) fitted to the wall so how have people dealt with this? do you put a baton on the wall and fix the cupboards back from the wall or cut out large sections of the back of the cupboards to run the pipes through.

I don't really want to fit a baton to the cupboards as the rooms pretty small as it is.

Thanks in advance for contributions and merry xmas DD

[Ben Blaukopf]

Have you actually bought the units yet? Personally I went for B&Q because it's easier to fit. On the other hand, if I was going to stay in the current place for a long time (I'm not!) I'd have bought ikea, because you get more space in the cabinet. As for what to do - move the heating pipes down a bit, so that they run in the void between the base of the cabinet and the floor. That way they're also accessible (ish!) in case of any problems.

Ben

[Derek Doormer]

[Andy-]

I think the neatest way around this is to make a cut out for the pipe

and then either make a nice box secti> Hi,

-- Andy-

[Andrew Gabriel]

I was replumbing the room anyway, so I put the pipe runs low down, under the cupboards. When I need to bring a run up through a cupboard I left the back off the cupboard, or alternatively cut the back away along the pipe route -- this is mostly viable when the pipe run is close to one or other end of the cupboard.

[Ed Sirett]

Having fitted a number of IKEA kitchens. I try to get all the services gas water and electric (remember to keep the electric 25mm form the gas of course ;-) onto the skirting (or where it would be).

Electric cables only have to be chased above the top and just near the bottom of the carcase provided they come up in the middle of a base unit.

Sometime you have to cut hole for waste pipes in the back board.

The water comes up easily into the bottom of the box and is easy to connect if you use Hep underneat and copper in the box and a pushfit L.

The gas pipe: Bring the pipe up vertically to a cap, drill hole in the firght place in the bottom of the box, 'drop' the box over the pipe.

HTH

[Ed Sirett]

Please don't top post. Stay under 140mm

[Seri]

Ikea carcasses, oh the joy. I'm dealing with these at the moment and had the same concern about no space at the back for routing things (in my case, the washing machine drainage hose). My solution was to make a wooden lip along the wall at the carcasses top height to help take the strain of the counter top, this way it provides a consistent gap at the back of the cabinets to allow for routing pipes etc and helps to take weight off the cabinets. Don't know if this solution would work for you or not.

Seri

[Seri]

Forgot to say, I'm not using Ikea counter tops, the reason I mention this is that I seem to recall Ikea counter tops only come as far as the cabinet front edge with hardly any over hang, so if you follow my method you may have an issue.

Seri