Thin end panel

Discussion in 'Kitchen Fitters' Talk' started by Urban Bumpkin, Jul 19, 2019.

  1. Urban Bumpkin

    Urban Bumpkin Member

    This was exactly what I was after. Where can I get something like this?
     
  2. robertpstubbs

    robertpstubbs Screwfix Select

    A local metal fabricator. Where are you?
     
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  3. Urban Bumpkin

    Urban Bumpkin Member

    I’m just south of Birmingham
     
  4. Pollowick

    Pollowick Screwfix Select

    Any local sheet metal company should be able to cut and bend. 20mm at the bottom so it can go under the edge of the dishwasher and 80mm at the top. Only need to be 200mm wide and 3 or 4mm thick.
     
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  5. robertpstubbs

    robertpstubbs Screwfix Select

    Make sure the person doing the work understands that the total height is the important dimension, whilst the exact size of the flanges is less important.

    If anything it could be fractionally too short in height and you could use spacers or washers to adjust.
     
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  6. Mr Rusty

    Mr Rusty Screwfix Select

    If you just want to support the end of that worktop, don't bother with the hassle of getting metal fabrications. Get a piece of square tube or angle iron and run it under the front edge of the sink, out the end panel and under the front edge. A piece of 20mmsq tube would be ideal. If there is an existing bit of chip framing across the top front of the sink cab, just remove it and replace with the bar to support the front of the sink wt.

    Easier to get a piece of straight than faff about with fabrications.
     
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  7. robertpstubbs

    robertpstubbs Screwfix Select

    I’d been wondering about something like that but it could be fiddly. In my kitchen there is solid wood rather than chip framing and the vertical central support is fastened to it.
     
  8. Urban Bumpkin

    Urban Bumpkin Member

    Sorry I’m being thick. Is that just a 600mm long square tube running along the front edge of the worktop?
    How does this fix to the sink cabinet? Sorry I am being thick
     
  9. robertpstubbs

    robertpstubbs Screwfix Select

    Open the doors under the sink and take a photo.
     
  10. gas monkey

    gas monkey Well-Known Member

    is the worktop thick enough to be self supporting is it made from solid wood
    another idea go above with a panel if blocks too much light cant see how high the f/f is
    or may be a s/steel tube from w/t to ceiling make a feture of look kinki just a thought
     
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  11. Urban Bumpkin

    Urban Bumpkin Member

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  12. Pollowick

    Pollowick Screwfix Select

    That is another idea, although I could get a piece of 3mm x 200 wide with two bends made quicker that cutting square tube to length.

    Recently had five 2.4m long, angles with 20 and 30 mm sides created - took under 10 minutes. The piece needed would take a local fabricator 2 minutes with a guillotine and press.
     
  13. robertpstubbs

    robertpstubbs Screwfix Select

    How thick and deep is the white chipboard piece under the worktop?

    What is the gap above the DW?

    If I went down the square tube idea I would be inclined to the leave the chip in place and put the steel under it and behind the centre support. Then you would need more chip under under the w/t over the DW to keep the distance.

    You could put a wooden strip over the front to make it look ok.
     
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  14. robertpstubbs

    robertpstubbs Screwfix Select

    Also that would make it easier to make holes in the cabinet ends. You could just drill a round 28mm hole.

    28 is 20 x 1.414. 1.414 is the square root of 2.
     
  15. Urban Bumpkin

    Urban Bumpkin Member

    The chipboard is 18mm thick and 26mm deep. Although the sink is tight against it.

    The gap between the dishwasher and the wt is between 45-50mm (depending which end your measuring
     
  16. robertpstubbs

    robertpstubbs Screwfix Select

    You would have the height to put 20mm tube over 18mm chip above the DW. Any plans to change the DW for a bigger one?
     
  17. robertpstubbs

    robertpstubbs Screwfix Select

    But you wouldn’t get 20mm tube behind the centre support if the chip is only 26mm deep. This might limit how far across the sink the steel would go. Ideally I have taken it the full width of the sink cupboard.
     
  18. Urban Bumpkin

    Urban Bumpkin Member

    Not at the moment, it’s a new one that’s only a couple of months old
     
  19. Urban Bumpkin

    Urban Bumpkin Member

    I was thinking that already. There was some kind of structural logic in my head (which is probably misplaced) that if the supported length is 600 then the supporting length needs to be at least the same, 1200 in total.
     
  20. Urban Bumpkin

    Urban Bumpkin Member

    What about a quick interim fix of cutting down the end panel to the height between the wt and the dw. Then just resting the work top onto this which is resting on the end of the dw?
     

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