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I think the slidey things are pretty standard - work with blum hardware - so the door is attached to the cabinet as normal and the slidey tracks connect to the fridge door - pulling it open when you open the outer door. this is what i have on magnet unit with bosch fridge.
Floor - sheet stuff like forbo marmoleum (lino) or vinyl / rubber all need very smooth sub floors to look pukka If the slab has bitumen on it you need a special type of levelling screed too. you can overboard in ply - but that can lead to seams showing and isn't ideal. I've watched heaps of you tube about this - also seen a forbo floor laid by contractor who knew fuck all about it and sort of ruined the project.
We have forbo vinyl glued to self level over slab and it is cold to the bare foot in winter as the slab is 60s so no insulation under.
Forbo do a click fix diy product that you could lay over the slab. I might do this if my colonial hardwood basketweave parquet gets any worse. But its spenny
if you're saving for fancy floors later - why not just throw down the cheapest click fix laminate floor you can buy ? -
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There’s two appliance hinge types. Fixed is door attached directly to the fridge, fridge has its own hinges. Sliding, as Sheppz says, the door is hinged normally (though with specific Blum appliance hinges) from the cabinet but connects to the fridge door which opens with it.
Cheap temp floor; buy some vinyl and maybe underlay and roll it out yourself. No need to glue it down if your going to lift it later. Screed or ply sub floor before the final fancy Forbo in 9 months time.
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Two things if anyone can weigh in with an experienced viewpoint:
Fitting an integrated fridge, will make the doors myself, but I’m a bit confused about the two hinge types - one just bolts directly to the door; the other has a slidy thing - pros and cons?
We have to take all the floor up downstairs but don’t have the budget for our preferred wood floor in the living room/hall and haven’t decided on kitchen. We don’t want to live with a plain concrete slab for 6-12 months so thought we could get the cheapest lino? Is it easy enough to fit myself? Guess ideally its glued down, and has an underlay? Might skip that bit. Could well go for lino in the kitchen anyway, in which case does it need a screed to level everything out (as it isn’t)?
So many questions. TIA.