Does anyone have a kitchen handy ?
What's the gap between the worktop and the underside of the wall units ?
Cheers
Norm
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17 years ago
Urgent stupid kitchen question
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17 years ago
Mine's 45.6 cm = 3*15cm tiles + grout gaps.
G.
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17 years ago
The gap between the top of the base unit and the bottom of a 3 shelf high wall unit should usually be 500mm. Subtract the worktop thickness from this to get the measurement you are looking for.
This works for MFI and many other brands. However, you should allow any full height or tall (to worktop) wall units to dictate the exact position. If you have both full height and tall wall units, you may be limited to a specific worktop thickness, usually about 40mm, or the tops won't align.
Christian.
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17 years ago
600mm approx. here.
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17 years ago
Cheers for all the answers.
I've ended up about 550 because it looked right.
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17 years ago
No bad thing - I just used a 600mm gap 'cos it "works tiles", as well as giving reasonable worktop working space.
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17 years ago
The main problems with going for a non-standard > 460mm height are.
- Won't work if there are any tall units that dictate cornice height.
- Supposedly concealed under pelmet lighting can be seen.
- Short people can't reach the cupboards.
- Will go through the ceiling if you have low height available.
However, 10cm isn't going to kill anyone, so if those constraints don't matter, go ahead!
Christian.
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17 years ago
Guess who got half the wall units up at the "standard" height before SWMBO said "I can't reach!" :-(
MBQ
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17 years ago
Whatever is necessary for the person who will use the kitchen most to reach the top shelf in the wall cupboard, but preferably also a whole number multiple of the tile row height (which is slightly more than the size of the tiles).
Colin Bignell
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17 years ago
The message from "Christian McArdle" contains these words:
With a wife who only comes up to my heart (she's 4'9") our worktops are lower than usual as are our wall cupboards. Which I regret 'cos she rarely cooks and being 6'2" I have to bend down a lot.
Come the big kitchen refit....
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17 years ago
Typically 450mm. but you may want something different.
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17 years ago