Built in appliances and kick boards - a general comment

[David]

Having struggled to remove the kick boards (it should have been easy but extra bits had been added beyond clips) I looked at the built in washing machine.

It looks to have a washing machine style filter which unscrews to enable the user to recover coins, false teeth, and anything else which has been left in pockets and gone through the wash. [I will unearth the instruction book and check.]

On free standing washing machines this is often behind a metal flap which folds out.

This suggest to me that any kick board which covers the base of a built in device should be easily removable and replaceable for service access.

I wonder how many people know this; it completely passed me by!

Cheers

Dave R

[David]

Adding that there should be some sort of easy way to remove the kick board such as a notch for a lever or a couple of small knobs to grip.

Just a simple functional way to pop the board off and on again.

Cheers

Dave R

[Jimk]

The joys of cheap kirchens

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

More to the point, why do makers of said machines put the filter right at the bottom, sometimes very close, as then you cannot get a big enough tray under it to allow it to drain the internal plumbing without flooding the place? Brian

[Jimk]

Gravity

[Andrew]

If you have a built-in fridge, there will (should) be a plastic tray behind the kickboard that slides out for cleaning any spilt milk or whatever.

Unless you have an easily removable kickboard, you cannot slide it out for cleaning.

Andrew

[Bob Eager]

Yes, I have to use a very very shallow baking tray, and it needs emptying before the drain is complete. I am wondering about a 100mm solid platform for it.

(I do this every six months after I failed to undo the cover because it was jammed up with crud inside. I had to replace the pump, Dremel the old cover off to see inside, but I have a spare pump now!)

[Dave Plowman (News]

They're normally just clipped to the legs of the cabinets, using terry clips or similar. Then someone lays laminated flooring up to them, rather than underneath, preventing their removal. ;-)

[Chris Green]

The trouble with "just clipped to the legs of the cabinets" is:-

You have to know they're "just clipped to the legs of the cabinets" to be able to remove them, otherwise you spend happy hours searching for the latest nefarious "invisible" fixings some horrible manufacturer has invented.

Even if they are "just clipped to the legs of the cabinets" and you know it how are you supposed to pull them off?

What is wrong with a couple of screws? You can get black screws if light coloured ones really upset you but personally such things really don't worry me.

[Dave Plowman (News]

You either:-

Fit the kitchen yourself. Watch the guys doing it. Ask here.

;-)