Levelling freestanding kitchen units

[bsr]

Hello

We are considering getting a freestanding kitchen, meaning one like this where the units sit on built in legs without a plinth:
https://www.muddandco.co.uk/free-standing-kitchens/

If you have fitted these before, can you tell me how you leveled up a run of base units well enough for the worktop? The back legs could be wedged but that would look awful on the front.

Thanks

bsr

 

[securespark]

I was going to say haven't they got adjustable legs, but they don't...
Level the floor with SLC?

 

[blup]

If the "free standing units" are going to be moved from time to time, it would make sense to make adjustments at floor level using plastic shims, otherwise you will be unscrewing and adjusting a heavy worktop. If there is a visible gap, this can be hidden with beading.

Blup

 

[foxhole]

If the "free standing units" are going to be moved from time to time, it would make sense to make adjustments at floor level using plastic shims, otherwise you will be unscrewing and adjusting a heavy worktop. If there is a visible gap, this can be hidden with beading.

Blup

??? Tops are integral to unit , not added.

 

[foxhole]

Hello

We are considering getting a freestanding kitchen, meaning one like this where the units sit on built in legs without a plinth:
https://www.muddandco.co.uk/free-standing-kitchens/

If you have fitted these before, can you tell me how you leveled up a run of base units well enough for the worktop? The back legs could be wedged but that would look awful on the front.

Thanks

bsr

What’s your reason for free standing? Once in people Rarely have reason or room to move and if you move home units are unlikely to fit new home added to the cost of dismantling anything too large to pass through doorway.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

The only time I've done jobs like those (with runs of cabinets) we made-up softwood ladder frames which were levelled-up on packers then fixed to the floor (SDS and angle brackets on the inside). Front and rear scribe panels were then added to the frame (scribed to the floor), the cabinets built on top of the (level) plinth and decor end panels added at each end (again scribed to the floor). That made fixing a top relatively easy. This is not an uncommon approach in bar, restaurant and shop fitting where units are just too big to be brought-in in a "one-er" but it does make the built item fixed - despite the "non-fitted" appearance (as opposed to free-standing, which is what a single cabinet can be). Can't see any other realistic approach to take, TBH

 

[bsr]

Thanks JobandKnock.

Yes, the units will be permanently fitted. They won't be going anywhere. It's just a case of how to level them up enough for a worktop, while not having a plinth to hide adjustments.

So one option is a softwood frame. Another is packers, perhaps wooden wedges colour matched to the units and knocked in from the inside of the units.

I'll speak to the retailer and see if he knows what his fitters usually do.