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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 20 8:52 am Post subject: DIY Kitchen
We're making my BIL a fitted kitchen, doing carcasses at the mo. Just one thing I'm unclear on; does the unit that the oven goes in have any additional strengthening or is it just a box with two sides a top and a bottom? It's 18mm birch ply so fairly strong carcass material.

Rusticwood

Joined: 01 Dec 2009
Posts: 2154
Location: All over the South West

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 20 9:38 am Post subject:
From memory I seem to remember it has a brace at the back about 4 inches wide just above the base and 2 across the top 1 front and 1at the back, not a solid top

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9878
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 20 10:27 am Post subject:
I think it depends on the oven - mine is an under counter two oven type, and when I built my kitchen, it didn't have a carcass to sit in, it stands on its own base and just has the cupboards either side. single ovens and eye level ovens have a different set up.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 20 10:50 am Post subject:
That’s what we’re doing with the dishwasher, the ovens a built in type

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 20 1:43 pm Post subject:
Long time since I did one, but Rusticwoods post does ring a bell

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 20 2:47 pm Post subject:
Ovens weigh nothing. Mine went into a regular carcass with no back. Top and bottom were cupboards with backs and units either side provide stability.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 20 3:13 pm Post subject:
Great, thanks all

sean
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Posted: Sat Apr 11, 20 5:04 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Ovens weigh nothing.

Didn't have you down as a physicist.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 20 6:05 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Nick wrote:

Ovens weigh nothing.

Didn't have you down as a physicist.

I also cook.

Scales weigh stuff. Ovens cook stuff. Ovens weigh nothing.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 20 9:16 pm Post subject:
Schroedinger's oven is a tricky bit of kit, but i have had a few of them. re carcassing for a built in oven, so long as the size and shape are right fitted ovens do not require over engineering, it is usually a matter of sliding it into the box. remember to leave space for wires and/or pipes at the back is the only helpful thought i can add

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