I have just positioned a tall oven housing and some base units in our galley type kitchen. I started at the oven housing as it needed a cutout to fit round a ventilation duct. The kick board supplied is 140mm deep and I levelled it off at that height above the floor but due to the slope of the floor by the time the last base unit was in place the gap had increased to to about 150mm.
Now the question is what to do about it? I could level the last unit at 140mm and drop the others on level with it that would then require scribing to the floor and removing a long thin wedge which I really do not fancy over a length of 2.2m of 18mm melamine coated chipboard. One alternative is to secure the kick board level and glue in a fillet strip once the flooring has gone in to cover the gap, which I am leaning towards.
In the past where similar has occurred I have simply let the kick board rest on the floor with any small gaps left under the bottom of the base units as the only way you would see them is to get right down to floor level but this time the difference is in the order of 10mm. One complication to throw into the mix is that the middle base unit has a kick space heater and the opening in the kick board needs to be quite accurate as the front grill is only a matter of a few millimetres wider than the opening.
Installing these first few units has already been a mare. The wall at the back of the 2.1m high tower unit was 20mm out of vertical. Fortunately the units have a service gap at the back so I was able to scribe the back edge but it involved a lot of humping the unit up and down to get it to sit against the wall right and at the same time to accurately make the opening to accommodate the ventilation duct. This was followed by a lot more scribing and unit positioning to keep the worktop square with the units and minimising the amount of scribing against the wall. So an easy solution is required but I do not want it to look naff.
Richard