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Can't work out what the abbreviations BI UC DoD and BI Slide door mean.

I'm guessing BI = built in. UC = under counter DoD = Door on door but Slide door ? Please don;t tell me that it's one of those cranky **** things where you mount the slide bit on an adjacent carcass and hope that the fridge and carcass are coplanar. Cockup City strikes again.

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I can find nothing on their website to explain them
 
Having just won my umpteenth game of Trivial Pursuits I am on a roll.
This chap explains it quite well.
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Next question anyone?
 
In a word....bollox. Just great. Just bloody great. A perfect end to a perfect year.

LOML wanted a fridge with four shelves. She also wanted a kitchen design that was low-level. ie no full height fridge which is what we had at out last place. Hence two floor level fridges but ideally with four shelves and not three. So we went to a showroom way way back when and looked at various options finally choosing the fridges we have. In hindsight that was a lousy choice as grovelling around on the floor isn't easy trying to find stuff in the fridge.

Only I failed to notice that (a) the damn thing was 875mm tall and narrow and not 815mm high and wide. So the first thing I had to do was 'modify' the fridges by angle-grinding off some surplus metal so the bloody things would slide under the worktop...just. Luckily I'd et the worktop height higher than normal otherwise we would have been well and truly stuffed.

But now I realise that my worst fears have been realised watching this video. I have tried (and failed) to mount slide-on doors in the past. They redefine c**p. Their operation...even if you manage to get everything coplanar to micro-millimetric precision is naff.

Replacing them is out of the question for financial reasons.

And to top it all, arrived this very cold morning to find yet another slow water leak.

And hardly any radiators are working.

Anyone got a tank of petrol ?
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No but I’ve got a can of the stuff.
Deepest condolences Roger I hope 2018 brings a great change in your fortunes.

Rod
 
Roger

I've got no words of advice, but can try to sympathise with all that's happened and realise how fortunate many of us are.

Like above, we must all hope that next year can bring better things happening for you.
 
We moved into a house with a sliding door fridge freezer which works fine. I wonder why some collective group of numpties decided we needed two types of door fixing? I have to say I dislike the whole idea of “hidden” appliances. In fact I dislike the whole concept of modern kitchens if I’m honest. I think we all know there is a massive mark up on things like kitchen cupboards. The only quality part is the door if it’s solid wood.
 
Woo hoo...it gets better and better.

Cracking start to 2018. OK....partly my fault, partly Zanussi claiming that their kit is integrated.

Discovered that I've bought the wrong fridges and the wrong freezer. :evil: The fridges we have are deigned to fit into a tall cabinet and not under a worktop. Their doors go all the way down to the floor. So even if I can find and buy doors that are tall enough, they will stick out like a sore thumb because there wil be kicker boards on either side.

Ditto the freezer.

So it's go out and buy two new fridges and a freezer and the hopefully find someone to buy the current ones.

But wait....hold your horses...it gets better and better.

Remember last year when I was cockahoop that I was able to refit all the cabinets by squeezing them in with precision? That I was dead chuffed when my 600 mm story stick just slipped into the remaining 600mm gap with 0.5mm to play with ? I really have no what substance I as taking. As part of the door saga I offered up a frontal. It doesn't fit. That 600mm gap is NOT 600mm but closer to 590mm. I really have no idea how. So it means that I must remove the 300mm end cupboard whilst supporting the granite worktop and then conjure up a 290mm end cupboard and then ....dunno...stuffed with the door.

And I'm taking Metronidazole which means no alcohol so I can't even drown my sorrows.
 
I'm not laughing. I need a sense of humour transplant. It is a chore. A daily grind.
 
I feel for you Roger but more for your poor wife!


Was there not a Goon show many years ago about fitting fridges and furniture or moving house?
 
no option to change say a 600 cupboard for a 500 somewhere in the run and have a 90mm infil?
 
Robert":11259k3m said:
no option to change say a 600 cupboard for a 500 somewhere in the run and have a 90mm infil?
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No, they're all fixed plus the joins in the worktop dictate where stuff can go. Need to nag the kitchen supplier to see if they do 200mm wide floor cabinets.
 
That sucks, Roger. If I were you, I'd blame the metric system. :)

You folks seem to have a much wider variety of kitchen appliance sizes than we do. I've heard of small fridges (usually for college dorm rooms or hotel rooms), but never a tall cabinet one. We do have size variations, but usually the selection difference is only a few inches in height or width.

Kirk
 
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