Problems & repairs
Kitchen snagging: putting right the details a fit left behind
The carcasses are usually fine. It's the second fix that gives kitchens away.
Most kitchens that feel 'not quite right' are structurally sound. What people actually notice is the alignment: doors that don't line up across a run, a kickboard that leans, a filler strip cut a millimetre shy, a worktop joint you can catch a fingernail on. These are second-fix problems, and they are fixable without touching the units — provided whoever does it works to a line rather than to each cabinet in isolation.
Doors and drawers out of line
Modern hinges adjust in three planes, so a run of doors can nearly always be brought back into line — but only if the carcasses are level first. Adjusting hinges to hide an out-of-level cabinet just moves the error to the next door along.
Set a datum line across the whole run, correct any carcass that sits proud or low, then set the doors to that line rather than to their neighbour.
Kickboards that lean or won't sit tight
Kickboards fail when the clips are fixed to the leg at the wrong height, when the floor rises across the run, or when the board has been cut square against a floor that is not. The correct fix is to scribe the board to the floor and reset the clip heights — not to pack the top edge out of sight.
End panels, fillers and scribes
Walls are rarely straight. An end panel butted flat against a bowed wall will always show a wedge of shadow. Scribing the panel to the wall profile is what removes the gap, and it is the single detail that separates a fitted kitchen from an assembled one.
Worktop joints and edges
A joint you can feel is either unsupported underneath, pulled up unevenly by the bolts, or was cut without a matching profile. Where a laminate joint has lifted and swollen at the edge, water has already got in and that section is usually beyond re-clamping.
Questions we're asked about this
Kitchen nearly right but not quite?
Send photos of the run and the specific details bothering you — snagging visits are usually short and we can scope them from images.
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