Tall wall cabinet corner post

[Christina]

Hi,

I am looking for some advice on a kitchen install. I had a kitchen fitted, but it came without a corner post for the tall wall cabinet. The fitter was supposed to cut down an end panel to make an L shape but instead he cut it up for something else. As it was a bespoke colour there is a 9 week lead time.

So I wondered what could be done. We have some bits let over which are 900mm and the fitter is talking about using one piece, not in an L shape. Sounds odd to me.

I thought maybe I could get a corner post and get it spray painted myself.

In the pic you can see how they have left it.

So I just wondered what the options are for this. It's not the most expensive kitchen in the world but I still want it to look right.

Any advice would be hugely appreciated.

 

[Bingy man]

That does not look good at all . If the fitter has admitted the mistake it’s up to him to make it right ( imho) . It’s easy to make a mistake so let him do what he’s suggesting with the proviso that if you are not happy with how it looks then the original plan will be followed even if you have to wait those 9 weeks otherwise you will be looking at that error for years to come . I personally would not care if it was a 2,000 or a 20,000 pound kitchen it has to be correct ..

 

[Christina]

That does not look good at all . If the fitter has admitted the mistake it’s up to him to make it right ( imho) . It’s easy to make a mistake so let him do what he’s suggesting with the proviso that if you are not happy with how it looks then the original plan will be followed even if you have to wait those 9 weeks otherwise you will be looking at that error for years to come . I personally would not care if it was a 2,000 or a 20,000 pound kitchen it has to be correct ..

Thanks, they said they will come back to finish it but my worry is how. The kitchen supplier do not sell a corner post that size, so it would need to be made from two pieces. He said if he cuts it and joins them together it will not look good. Is that generally true for corner posts made from two pieces? I appreciate that as the two pieces are already painted that its not going to be as nice as a piece painted after they have been joined.

My confidence is a little rocked hence why I came here to ask.

 

[AJB Temple]

Isn't the cupboard the wrong way round as well? The hinges should surely be on the right?

Don't pay in full until it is properly fixed.

 

[Christina]

Isn't the cupboard the wrong way round as well? The hinges should surely be on the right?

Don't pay in full until it is properly fixed.

Thank you. I just watched a video from Unitsonline and they have the hinges on the left too. Is that not how it should be?

https://www.unitsonline.co.uk/constructing-the-wall-corner-post

 

[AJB Temple]

If that is how it is supposed to be then fine but it looks awkward to me with right hand cupboard door opening against the longer cupboard.

 

[Jake]

As there's not much of a corner to post, maybe he means making an L out of two layers so the return bit is an end face rather than a side. Like so, where 1 is the first layer and 2 is the second.

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As long as the edge banding or painting is decent, that probably would look OK if that's what he means.

Hard to make out quite what is going on there though - not much room at all between the long run and cabinet on the return. Will the missing (or glass?) door open at all? Or is that cab just temporarily fixed? Why does the end panel hang down unlike the rest?

 

[Bingy man]

Personally I find different makers wren , howdens , magnet etc utilise different methods . I prefer the corner to be part of the door rather than a fixed post as they can act as an obstruction when using the cupboard . As long as he comes back and makes it right then fair play to him . As above hold back full payment until it’s done correctly.

 

[Blackswanwood]

I also wondered about the end panel seemingly being lower than the rest of the cabinets?

Hopefully you have not paid and have some leverage to make sure they come back and sort it - I’m be insisting on the solution being as recommended by the manufacturer (assuming that was the original plan).

 

[Bingy man]

As there's not much of a corner to post, maybe he means making an L out of two layers so the return bit is an end face rather than a side. Like so, where 1 is the first layer and 2 is the second.

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As long as the edge banding or painting is decent, that probably would look OK if that's what he means.

Hard to make out quite what is going on there though - not much room at all between the long run and cabinet on the return. Will the missing (or glass?) door open at all? Or is that cab just temporarily fixed? Why does the end panel hang down unlike the rest?

Top of end panel also looks too high unless pelmit being fitted

 

[Christina]

As there's not much of a corner to post, maybe he means making an L out of two layers so the return bit is an end face rather than a side. Like so, where 1 is the first layer and 2 is the second.

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As long as the edge banding or painting is decent, that probably would look OK if that's what he means.

Hard to make out quite what is going on there though - not much room at all between the long run and cabinet on the return. Will the missing (or glass?) door open at all? Or is that cab just temporarily fixed? Why does the end panel hang down unlike the rest?

The door has been delayed but their thinking was that they put the door on and it covers the gap. But that's not how it should work. So they are happy to move the cabinet along to accommodate the corner post. But that was before they realised they had chopped it up.

I also wondered about the end panel seemingly being lower than the rest of the cabinets?

Hopefully you have not paid and have some leverage to make sure they come back and sort it - I’m be insisting on the solution being as recommended by the manufacturer (assuming that was the original plan).

I believe it's lower to accommodate the pelmet, but I measured it and it seems wrong. Maybe its me but I would have put the end panel on after the pelmet. I'm no expert of course. They have also cut the end panel so no room with to manoeuvre with that either.

Top of end panel also looks too high unless pelmit being fitted

There is meant to be cornice and a pelmet.

 

[HOJ]

I have to say, you all need to give the fitters a chance, I've been fitting a Howdens one recently, that I had no input in the design or layout, spent a lot of time trying to work out what we had and where it was meant to go, plans were diabolical, as were the the fitting instructions, and I'm no dummy...

In the end we just had to make it up as we went along to get the "look".

Client took a stack of spare bits back, well over £1000.00's worth, but conversely had to get some other extra bits to be able to finish it.

We had corner post's which cost a fortune, in real terms for what they are, and not even square, causing other issues.

However If the fitter is part of the kitchen supply chain, please ignore my post.