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Can be done either way. Personally I like fitting kitchens onto the finished floor. If there’s integrated appliances that slide into a slot it’s almost impossible to get them back out if they drop down a lip into the gap. Obvs more expensive to floor under the units though.
Depends on the complexity and arrangement of end panels / corners. Got a plan? The bottom line with this one though, is that if the fitter doesn’t want to do it, you can’t make them.
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Thanks - image below of the kitchen, not using the colours shown that was more for ease of identifying pieces. Doors/drawfronts are all shown in wood, fillers and end panels in dark red. The plywood people don't think it's that complicated, just a little bit of joinery needed for the left hand corner as there's a downpipe there.
So maybe the flooring could do with being down, annoying timing as I don't really have the time to do it right now but may be possible.
I guess our options are; wait for the doors/fillers but not have a kitchen until ~Feb, don't get the plywood stuff and just order the doors/fillers from IKEA (I suggested this then removing the fillers later & replacing with ply but the fitter thinks that's not possible), or finding a different fitter than can come before christmas (unlikely but we're ringing round).
@davidual & @eskay - thanks too. I feel like the builders fitter is most of the issue but hard to say as this isn't really my game.
Lw.
We've had some snags in our kitchen fitting that have led to interesting conversations with our builders/their kitchen fitter - could anyone share their opinions on the below please:
1 - we are going to have floating engineered oak herringbone flooring with the gold foil stuff underneath. Everywhere we've read about the flooring suggests it should go down last, so the kitchen legs are sat on the concrete floor, not the wood. The floor is currently a concrete slab with self-levelling screed over the top. The kitchen fitter (and now the builders) are saying that's wrong and that the flooring needs to be down for the kitchen to go over the top. Anyone got any experience on this please?
2 - we're having IKEA kitchen carcasses with plywood doors bought from elsewhere. Due to the lead times with the plywood doors/fillers/end plates we were planning on having the fitter fit the cupboards, worktop & appliances etc... now then we could just bolt the plywood on later. The fitter is saying this isn't possible as he needs the filler panels & everything to make the corners all fit properly - the plywood place say that's the not the case & that our plan would be fine, so not really sure who to believe on that one. Obviously the plywood place want the sale but maybe the fitter is uncomfortable with IKEA? Has anyone on here done similar?
Pretty frustrating on a few levels.