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DIY-kitchens - side panel height different size to cabinets, is it normal?
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Tricky colours on mine but I certainly would if I'd gone with white.
diy-kitchens are being snotty. They say it's my faulty that their stainless steel handles are not stainless steel because when I added them to the basket I should have ignored the title (which says "stainless steel") and looked at the full description found on another page. I'm amazed such a sizeable company thinks it's a wise approach to challenge it.
They include but may have been overlooked, they will send some if you request foc.
I didn't because I prefer the look without them. In hindsight... (first kitchen install, will make mistakes).
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Fit a door, with the cut side to the wall if you can't get one bob on
Unfortunately that would look pants aswell as the doors are shorter than the units.
I would cut the wall end panels to wall unit height and put the cut to the top, if DIY Kitchens cant send touch out paint i would get a colour match at Brewers and paint it myself.
I use a Plunge Saw, you may not have one, do you own a circular saw? I use a 48 toothed blade. I also cut face down onto and through a sacrificial sheet of mdf, it stops chipping of painted or gloss surfaces.
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Not significantly, and you can't really argue that "putting doors on kitchen units looks bad" because most kitchen units have doors..
Naturally I don't mean to cut eg 78mm off a shaker door and screw it in place; I was referring to eg a handleless slab door
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Why on earth would you not want to put a pelmet below the cupboards? it hides the bottom of the cabinets and all the cabinet joints, and most people want illumination under as well which the pelmet also hides.
People like DIY kitchens standardise around the usual way of installing so that everything fits according to that. You are doing something "non-standard". If you need to do that you really have to go to the suppliers who will supply doors, panels, etc etc. in 100% customisable sizes. Anyone who is a distributor for e.g. Hills Panel Products or BA Components can supply you any size of anything.
Having said that, if you have to, cut to the top, but do use the correct tool.
People like DIY kitchens standardise around the usual way of installing so that everything fits according to that. You are doing something "non-standard". If you need to do that you really have to go to the suppliers who will supply doors, panels, etc etc. in 100% customisable sizes. Anyone who is a distributor for e.g. Hills Panel Products or BA Components can supply you any size of anything.
Having said that, if you have to, cut to the top, but do use the correct tool.
I'm not the only one that don't like pelmets though I may well be in the minority. I don't like under cabinet illumination either, looks cheap imo. It's not going to be hard for them to do two different heights and avoid the mess. Regardless, I have one cupboard that's reduced height anyway due to RSJ above it, so I have no option but to cut the ends, pelmets or not. I have a circular with track and the blade is sharp but it's never going to be perfect on painted surface. Given this they should at least supply the relevant touch up paint with what in my case is a £2,600 order. If you've ordered the wrong colour then it's unavailable.
They are pushing back against selling me these "stainless steel" handles - which contain no stainless steel. They seem to think it's perfectly acceptable to sell an apple as an orange. Chargeback is in the air...
They are pushing back against selling me these "stainless steel" handles - which contain no stainless steel. They seem to think it's perfectly acceptable to sell an apple as an orange. Chargeback is in the air...
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I think the price gives it away, real SS Handles of a similar ilk are around £15, besides there will be small print somewhere as a get out clause for them.
In a minute ive got to fit a 780 wall unit end panel to a 720 unit, it doesn't have cornice or pelmet, im going to cut the top, no paint or edging supplied either and its not diy kitchens - what fun!
I understand why you are annoyed, but if I go to https://www.diy-kitchens.com/handles/bar-handles the description does say SS effect. That said, perhaps it should be in the product title.
Yeah, by law. In that list they actually do have others with 'Stainless Steel effect' in the title. No leg to stand on. They've caved and will refund the postage but it shouldn't have taken a back and forth.
Tried that before I ordered, they don't use RAL codes it's something they make/mix/manufacture on site. They will sell 1Ltr of the stuff they make for about £50 but you have to push - and pick it up (they're not remotely close for me so that was a no go).
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