hamish
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Hello All,
Excellent forum Tim, thanks for helping me
register!
I am a kitchen designer maker and interested in gaining other peoples opinion in order to improve my
product.
I have asked this question to two well established kitchen makers with oposite answers.
I would like too
understand simply what is acceptable and is not.
I work without a showroom, so you can understand how important it is to
spec the finished product befor compleation, if not questions are raised towards the end of a project as to wether or not
certain aspects of the work should be done in such a way, gladly i can say very few questions come my way,and experience now
has my snags list too a minimum.
With that said, just to let you know where i’m comming from  my question…
The
kickboards are the end of the road or are they! To fit a kick board in my opinion there are two ways:
1. You can scribe to
the floor and simply fit the board under the flange of the foot, clip in position and the job is done.
2. you can scribe
and fit to the underside of the base unit and rebate the back top edge to fit around the flange of the foot, then refit with
clips and plinth edging strip which nicely seals the bottom edge.
Personally i am adopting 2.
The thing i want to no is
what is the norm, what do other people do?I have had profesionals look at me sidways because i have mentioned the edge
seal!
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timfoley
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Not sure why the importance of
a seal is dismissed by professionals Hamish.
The fact is that plinths are just as vulnerable as any kitchen cabinetry
component is to swelling once water ingress occurs and let’s face it, in the lifetime of any kitchen there will be a number
of spillages, not to mention many mophead changes whilst washing the floor surface.
You made not only the right choice
with option 2 but the only choice.
Tim.
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hamish
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Thanks Tim,
There are a lot who dont
use it!
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Julian
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Hi all
Does anyone know where I can buy the plinth edging strips mentioned here? (What are they made of). I’m also thinking of using these for the floor cabinet side-panels, which also touch the floor..
thanks
Julian
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timfoley
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Julian,
If you refer to the link on this post – http://www.kitchensfitted.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=520&sid=b95237a9104c08fa874cd0c3e58d6ed8- you should be able to obtain plinth strips from the supplier.
Tim
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