Have i bought the wrong fridge ?
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@campagquinn units don’t have the step out for the fridge like @doncarlyon do.
I'm assuming the depth of your fridge recess in the van is about 440mm and the fridge depth is 500mm? Were you hoping the fridge was gonna be pretty flush with your unit or is the protruding face a lot more than you were expecting/wanting? A slimline fridge will definitely fit in there flush without you having to cut the panel out (cue multiple 'it can't be flush without impeding the door opening' comments lol) and also you can get brushed steel ones to continue your swanky furniture style although I'd be worried that the brushed steel would be a slightly different tone to your units or brushed in the wrong direction... Such a minefield
I appreciate your dilemma - to try to return an opened electrical item to a vendor is a pain in the @rse to begin with, then you're waiting for refund and then you're looking at a smaller volume fridge and delivery time for that fridge. abot 10days to 3 weeks. Alternatively, completely cutting the panel out, securing the wall insulation back (various methods for this), possibly (although I wouldn't) cutting out the rebar in the wall... it's stressful.
There are 480mm depth fridges I think may be your answer? The wall panel cut option is your free and easy option if you have a multitool and can get in there to do it, but I have a feeling your wall re-bar is your issue as that is likely what you can feel binding on the rear of the fridge (behind the panel), so cutting out the panel only really gives you a depth increase of 4.5mm/6mm.
As you are a more than competent sort (just like me) I'm assuming firstly there is nothing impeding it on the floor or side walls, there is definitely no back panel on the unit, and that you have obviously sketched a mark on the floor at the front edge of where your fridge goes to with masking tape, pulled fridge out and checked the measurement from that line to the back of your cupboard and then compared with your fridge depth. It shouldn't be binding at the top of the fridge back as the wall panel is pretty much vertical.
I have a 112 RIB and the furniture I have doesn't step out at the fridge so it's just like yours. Worse still my unit has a door that shuts in front of the fridge so 18mm further depth lost towards the bloody wall panel than yours! so I definitely needed a slimline fridge as shown (eventually) in the thread Recessed fridge in wall
Sorry for the rambling. In closing, it looks like your fridge sticks out about 60mm there. That seems too much to me. what is the depth of your unit in total as even with my unit having even less depth (18 bloody mil), it was only gonna ever be 40mm to shallow.
I appreciate your dilemma - to try to return an opened electrical item to a vendor is a pain in the @rse to begin with, then you're waiting for refund and then you're looking at a smaller volume fridge and delivery time for that fridge. abot 10days to 3 weeks. Alternatively, completely cutting the panel out, securing the wall insulation back (various methods for this), possibly (although I wouldn't) cutting out the rebar in the wall... it's stressful.
There are 480mm depth fridges I think may be your answer? The wall panel cut option is your free and easy option if you have a multitool and can get in there to do it, but I have a feeling your wall re-bar is your issue as that is likely what you can feel binding on the rear of the fridge (behind the panel), so cutting out the panel only really gives you a depth increase of 4.5mm/6mm.
As you are a more than competent sort (just like me) I'm assuming firstly there is nothing impeding it on the floor or side walls, there is definitely no back panel on the unit, and that you have obviously sketched a mark on the floor at the front edge of where your fridge goes to with masking tape, pulled fridge out and checked the measurement from that line to the back of your cupboard and then compared with your fridge depth. It shouldn't be binding at the top of the fridge back as the wall panel is pretty much vertical.
I have a 112 RIB and the furniture I have doesn't step out at the fridge so it's just like yours. Worse still my unit has a door that shuts in front of the fridge so 18mm further depth lost towards the bloody wall panel than yours! so I definitely needed a slimline fridge as shown (eventually) in the thread Recessed fridge in wall
Sorry for the rambling. In closing, it looks like your fridge sticks out about 60mm there. That seems too much to me. what is the depth of your unit in total as even with my unit having even less depth (18 bloody mil), it was only gonna ever be 40mm to shallow.
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You are exactly right. Think il try taking the back panel off before cutting and see if that fixes things for me and take it from there. Such a pain. There is always something isn't there.
So cutting the back panel has given me the room to make the front work. It's gone back just shy of 50mm. I'm happy with that
