Wall Kitchen Units - Sizes and Fitting

Wall Kitchen Units are available in generally two different heights. Picking the right size will be dictated mainly by the size of your ceilings. You must also take into consideration that in general you will want to keep a gap of around 450mm between your worktops and the starting height of the Unit. Also consider the highest practical shelf height is around 1060mm above the worktop.

This site was created to illustrate the size and shape of the units that are used most often and are readily available in most stores and give some fitting tips.

The standard depth of a wall kitchen unit is 300m, this includes the unit door. This often causes a problem because your standard plate wont fit into it. How many times have you been to a friends house and noticed door slightly open because the plates don't fit in. This is why people generally keep there plates in base unit. Some manufacturers however have a solution and have started creating wall kitchen units that are 40mm deeper and this gets over the problem.

Wall Kitchen Units are available in the following widths

With a single door, 300mm, 400mm, 500mm, 600mm
With two doors 600mm, 800mm, 900mm, 1000mm.

Picking the right wall unit depends on a number of things, First off if you have base units already installed you will need to make sure they line up with the units beneath. This will restrict you on the size and position of you wall kitchen unit and you haven't got much choice. However if you are free from these limitations I would recommend going as large as you can with the single door units and if you are going with two doors I would recommend an 800mm unit as over time wall units can start to bow in the middle.

Fixing Wall Kitchen Units

Fixing units to walls call be very easy, or a pain in the backside. It really depends on the wall you are fixing to and if there are any objects in the wall that could cause and obstruction. This could be things like pipes or wires. You should first check and mark up the wall with a pipe detector. These are available at a reasonable prices from your local DIY store and will be something you will use over and over if your keen on DIY. If there are no obstructions you can mark where your wall brackets are going and go ahead and drill your holes ready for raw plugs.

If these is an obstruction where you want to hang your wall kitchen unit you will need to look at other ways to fix it. Options could be fixing it to existing units or screwing where suitable straight through the back of the unit to an area of the wall that is free from pipe or wire, bare in mind though to take extra care when fixing like this as there be no adjustment once fixed.