Fitting kitchen wall units

The most important point about fitting kitchen wall units is to find secure fixing positions. This is not normally a problem with masonry walls, but with hollow or stud walls, ideally all fixings should go into the wooden studs. Alternatively you can take off the plasterboard behind the units and fix wooden noggings (horizontal supports) inside the wall between adjacent vertical studs. This may then be re-covered with plasterboard and patch plastered before fitting the wall units with the fixing brackets provided. For more on this, see my guide Hanging kitchen units on stud walls .

Hi Wendy,

Basically there will normally be a small gap between the top of the plinth and underside of the unit, which is often dependent on how high the units have been set off the floor, and the height of the plinth supplied sometimes the supplied plinth will not fill the gap, but any small gap left is usually not visible as it is up under the unit as it were. Alternatively your fitter may have trimmed a bit too much off when fitting.

So, difficult to make any exact recommendations except find out if the gap has been left in relation to any kitchen ventilation requirement. If, it is purely about aesthetics, as long as the gap cannot be seen, then there s not too much to worry about ideally a tighter fit would have been better though.