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