Kitchen cabinet feet

[Steve Maskery]

Calling kitchen makers.

Because our kitchen is an odd shape, with obstacles in the walls themselves, and French kitchen cabinets, at least from the sheds, have backs made from cereal box cardboard. I've decided to build my own cabinets. I have done it before, but it was 30 years ago, maybe more, and I'd forgotten just how much room a kitchen in pieces takes up, I am better equipped to deal with sheet materials than I was then, but I've also discovered that the chipboard panels they make these days are a damn sight heavier than they were 30 years ago...

But I digress.

I have one row of wall cabinets in place and have the panels cut to build the row of base cabinets beneath them. One cabinet is assembled and ready to set in place. Nearly.

Is there a standard or recommended distance from the front of the carcase to the centre of the feet? Part of me thinks it doesn't matter as long as the kickboards are set back, and part of me thinks that in this day and age just about everything will have an ISO specification...

Any experience or advice gratefully received.
S

 

[duke]

Our kick plate setback is 2 3/4". I think the feet are usualy back enough to allow for this, don't know how far. Try searching Blum hardware they may have info regarding this.
Possibly set back 3".

 

[Cabinetman]

I think gravity has increased too Steve, certainly harder to get up after kneeling than it was.
I can’t think it will make much difference as long as you screw them to the wall, just leave toe room, after all it’s your kitchen, your toes!

 

[duke]

Measured the kitchen base cabinet in the shop and the set back is 7mm

 

[duke]

 

[Steve Maskery]

I think you mean 7cm, but what's an order of magnitude between friends?

Thank you.

So by that reckoning I need the 70mm + 18/19* for the kickboard itself, plus the clip plus half the foot. 100mm, near as makes no difference
S
PS * MDF in the UK is 18mm, here in France it is 19mm. But MFC is 18mm. Go figure. And good luck trying to match them up.

 

[Steve Maskery]

And another thing.

In the UK I can source, locally and swiftly, MFC measuring 150mm wide in 4m lengths, ideal for kickboards. Ask for that here and they don't look at you and think, "He's English", they look at you and think, "He's from Pluto".

I can buy black MFC. But I'm going to have to rip it, edgeband it and lengthen it to get a 3m length. I might get away without edgebanding it, I might just seal it with PVA.*
S

*And another thing. Good PVA is difficult to source, too, in anything bigger than bijoux size. And when I do, it's twice the price than in the UK.
Harumph.

 

[Jonathan]

Steve set the kick space so it’s comfortable for you, those with larger feet need more room.
You might find ready made kick board in plastic or aluminium, that’s what most do here in Spain.
Personally I make them out of solid wood and prime all sides and edges so they last. I throw away that plastic clip that comes with the plastic adjustable feet, fix with a 3.5 x 50 screw about 20 mm down so you don’t see it

 

[duke]

I think you mean 7cm, but what's an order of magnitude between friends?

Thank you.

So by that reckoning I need the 70mm + 18/19* for the kickboard itself, plus the clip plus half the foot. 100mm, near as makes no difference
S
PS * MDF in the UK is 18mm, here in France it is 19mm. But MFC is 18mm. Go figure. And good luck trying to match them up.

Oops, yes 7cm.

 

[Steve Maskery]

You might find ready made kick board in plastic or aluminium, that’s what most do here in Spain.

I've not seen that, but I shall look out for it. Is that in the normal Sheds?
S

 

[Jonathan]

Leyroy Merlin do it here in Spain don’t know about France.

https://www.leroymerlin.es/productos/zocalo-pvc-negro-mate-100-mm-de-alto-x-240-cm-de-largo-90177234.html

 

[Spectric]

You could make a solid kitchen that does not need plastic legs and kickboard .

 

[Sheffield Tony]

I've decided to build my own cabinets. I have done it before, but it was 30 years ago, maybe more, and I'd forgotten just how much room a kitchen in pieces takes up

You aren't kidding. I have kitchen fitters in at the moment. Our small-ish kitchen has needed us to empty and turn over the largest room in the house for a huge pile of cabinets and appliances. It is hard to believe we will be able to fit all of that and ourselves in the kitchen ! The fitters seem to have moved in, I have for now lost my lean-to workshop, the garage, and the front lawn.

There are some compromises, a few things not done as I would have done it myself. But, it will look fine when, one day hopefully quite soon, it is finished. Whereas if I had tried to even fit it myself, let alone make the cabinets, it would have been months ! I guess your rate of work is quicker than mine Steve.