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| November 24, 2005 at 9:45 am #6122 | |
 daisyJ |
Dear Tim, I am an independant kitchen retailer working on my own and would appreciate some advice. I had a kitchen installed earlier in the year for a client using Mereway carcasses ( I always use the highest quality products). The customer had an existing slot in electric cooker. The normal 1 cm gap was left between cooker and unit, howver the front edge of the unit next to it has gone crinkly and the side of the unit has blown. The oven door next to it is a side opening door, I can’t imagine that my client would purposely leave her oven door open? Mereway are replacing the unit, however to avoid this happening again can you suggest a heat resistant protective thin metal strip that I could place down the side of the unit to prevent this happening again? from for my fututre installations? |
| November 24, 2005 at 12:36 pm #6123 | |
 timfoley |
Daisy, useful. regarding the utilisation of Unitsaver in their portfolio of products a couple of years ago. They declined interest at the time stating that they already had a waterproof tray for sink units. I have since discovered that this is not unlike other slot-in trays and is not sealed to the carcass but anyway we stillreceive a lot of interest from the general public over Unitsaver and I do hope that one day soon I will finally speak to a manufacturers representative with enough installation knowledge to be able to distinguish Unitsaver from a slot in tray. There really aren’t enough people in positions of influence in the industry who have installation knowledge and I see this as detrimental to the industry. Unitsaver will remain a prototype and the one instance of it’s utilisation in the UK still remains successful after fitting in a Better Homes kitchen in Leyland, Lancs some four years ago. I’m still confident of it’s success and even more so with the increasing popularity of solid surface worktops as the expense of removing these to replace a damaged sink carcass is, as you will know, immense. Moving on to your point about slot in cookers with side opening doors, I can sympathise with you here and I believe that the recommended space is too small and should be amended as this appears to be a consistent issue. periods but of course you cannot legislate for this. that this configuration is vulnerable and no doubt this will assist in you offering them damage free alternative but for now all I can suggest is that you apply metal protection to the affected areas to act as a heat shield. Not the best design recommend but practical in it’s purpose. If the gap each side is 10mm then you could slide a stanless steel panel fabricated over 6mm MDF down each side that will also cover the door profile. Hope this helps, Tim. |
| August 14, 2006 at 12:19 pm #6407 | |
 makeitoak |
I am suprised nobody has suspected a problem with the oven. If I were a cowboy oven manufacturer I might consider saving costs by reducing the insulation in the sides of the oven. I observe that no mention was made of the oven make and model. I would be suprised if a good quality oven with a good energy saving rating [which would require good levels of insulation] would give the same problem. I am also suprised that Mereway did not suggest blame to the oven. An oven is not something to skimp on. The energy savings on such a high energy using appliance, as well as generally good design should return a prudent investment over the years in my opinion. It is of course, also important to ensure that the oven has adequate ventilation in accordance with the fitting instruction booklet, [which is not located at the sides, but rather intake at the bottom and outflow at the top usually]. I could imagine if this is disregarded, hot air might be forced to travel through the gap between the oven and the neighbouring carcass side. |
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