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Hi All
Ive got my kitchen coming in a couple of weeks and someone to fit it shortly after. Ive been trying to work out if im going to run into problems when it comes to fitting the integrated appliances as im imagining the services to the boiler may be an issue. The cupboards are 570mm deep from Wickes with a 66mm service gap. As an example, the oven is AEG and 56.7mm deep. Clipped to the wall are the mains water, gas and radiator pipes - the mains are 15mm i think so allowing for the clip bringing it from the wall that's about 20mm taken up straight away. They're about 450mm from the floor and not as low down as they would ideally be. I can't work out how it's going to go together as even if the oven is pushed right into the pipes there still wont be enough space.
Does this sound right? im sure the cupboards are the standard depth, its not unusual to have pipes on the wall, hence the service gap, and all the AEG ovens are the same depth so i guess that's a fairly standard size too.
Will i need to get the pipes moved down to the floor level so they actaully come under the cupboards?

I think the best answer for you is to have a word with the fitter. He/she should be able to advise you.

As with stevei. Guessing the cupboards would not be a problem because the fitter can scollop the sides to make a passage for the pipes but the oven, well, if you have a standard work top of 600mm then there is not a lot to play with, unless, you use a thick up-stand, then he could make a bit more clearance with stand-offs for the cupboard line.
With a bespoke worktop, like my granite ones, they are cut to give added worktop depth some being 660 some 620 and using extra stand-off's for the 570 cupboards.

It's usual when planning a kitchen, to consider existing services and the siting of appliances. One kitchen I fitted some years ago had a consumer unit on the wall at a height of about 650mm. The customer wouldn't move the C/U and so the kitchen planner had to ensure that the base units near it were placed so the C/U was in the middle of a 600mm wide unit. To complicate things even further, the customer insisted on drawerline units. She wouldn't be told that it was impossible to fit a drawer where the C/U was. In the end I had to alter the drawer of the unit so it didn't foul the C/U. God knows what fun she must have if the electrics trip.

thanks for the responses - the fitters coming round this week to take a look. I appreciate what you're saying about planning around the services but i'm still stumped as to how it would ever work unless the services were chased into the wall. The fact that the units have a service gap in them means they must expect that the services will be run at such a height that it is needed i.e. instead of at the plinth level. But, for the oven to fit it would appear that additional clearance is required - something that is not provided by the units. Unless of course it is all done on the basis that the oven is in a completely separate area to the rest of the kitchen so the services won't be that much of an issue - other than than the gap for the hob! Hopefully it will all be fine and im worrying over nothing

The oven probably won't be flat at the back for the full height, there is usually a less deep area where the services will enter - can't guarantee it with yours - but most I've seen have been like that.