Help!! intergrated units.

If they are integrated appliances,

which I suspect they are by

your post, then you are correct in your assumption.
My best advice is to follow the

manufacturing instructions for the fixing of doors, plinth etc and these should include a template for ease of fixing of the

door to the appliance.

With regard to services at the rear of the appliance, it is better for sockets to be fitted in

an adjacent cabinet or to ensure that any services spanning the area behind do not

impede the appliance sitting flush

with adjacent cabinets. Generally this would mean that all services are fitted tight to the wall and do not exceed a height of

150mm from the floor

for most integrated appliances.

Integrated washing mahines present more of a challenge as

they tend to allow for little, if any, room at the rear if using a standard 600mm worktop. One solution to overcome the

problem that services behind integrated appliances present, is to fit a deeper worktop to accomodate them easier and

you might consider this as an option.

Hope this helps you,

Tim.
present

Tony,

The

integrated applainces should, apart from your washing machine, have the facility to raise the appliance to the same height as

the base units and the washer can be raised by

fitting a suitable sized plinth tray beneath, consider a worktop offcut

if suitably sized. Integrated appliances such as the ones you describe, are stand alone and are not housed in a

cabinet.
The difficulty is that as most manufacturers make standard sized doors, fitting an end support panel

between each appliance will greatly increase the gap between each door which is

not from an aesthetical perspective,

very attractive. You can support this at the rear using a batten or a number of angle brackets fitted directly beneath the

worktop but again the

span you describe may be too wide to stop the worktop from bowing.

An alternative to

resolve this that I have utilised before is to order the doors wider to accommodate the end supports, but this is a luxury

only afforded you if you are able to have

your doors made to your specified width.

The solution for you may be

here somewhere and may involve redesignating an appliance elsewhere in the kitchen. It may also be that you take a chance on

fitting them side by side

supported at the rear but just be mindful of the consequences if the worktop is to be

utilised for heavy use.

As for the washing mahine hinge holes, they will have to be drilled to suit the centres of the

appliance hinges after fitting and you should have been provided with a template for

this.