Plinth/Skirting - How should this get finished ?

[Spinny]

Any experience and suggestions on how this bit of my kitchen fit should get finished ? See pics.

The bottom of the vertical kitchen end panel which is edge-on is 90mm above the floor. The adjacent kitchen horizontal panel at the bottom is a 'push-to-open' drawer.

I am expecting to fit 100mm skirting to the adjacent wall and the skirting will be painted white.

The kitchen fitter is returning shortly and will fit the kitchen plinth.

 

1/ Fitting the skirting to extend and run over the top of the edge-on kitchen panel seems wrong. It will not match the bottom of the drawer front in height, the kitchen panel is designed to edge the kitchen drawer - just as it edges cupboard doors higher up.

2/ Finishing the skirting at the corner of the wall seems best, but if so should it be finished square, or with a chamfer at 45 deg ?

3/ What should happen below the edge-on kitchen panel ?

(a) Wrap white skirting around but cut the height down to fit under the kitchen panel with some weird joining detail ? 

(b) Fill/plaster the side wall just under the edge-on kitchen panel following the plaster line down, and paint white as far back as the kitchen plinth when fitted ?

(c) Get the fitter to make a 'side return' to the kitchen plinth, so that there is a short piece of plinth between the bottom of the kitchen panel and the floor (effectively extending the bottom of the kitchen panel down to the floor with a join line.

 

This type of join between wall and cabinetry seems like a common occurence - do you have one ? how is it finished ?

 

Many thanks for any and all responses.

 

(PS I am suspicious that the end panel should actually have been run right down to floor level ? Is this what other people have ? My kitchen had some missing panels when they came to fit and they repositioned some long vertical panels in order to get most of the fit done. So not sure if this has changed this detail without admitting it ?)

 

Edited yesterday at 15:12 by Spinny

[Mr Punter]

I think stop the skirting at the end of the plaster and cut a 45 back to the wall to account for any skirting profile.  Finish the bit on the left of the kitchen unit with filler and paint and fit the plinth as normal.  You already have the gap thing going on between units (I assume for handleless), so don't make it look more complicated.

[ProDave]

I would take the skirting round the corner with a nice corner joint.  You may need to trim the top of the skirt to fit under the unit and would only work if your skirt was no thicker than the end panel of the unit.

[saveasteading]

What make of kitchen? We've just found that howdens have provided one section as just lots of panels and fittings, and we have to manufacture it.

 

So they are used to providing panels. Maybe your supplier can provide more blanks for that end that should be longer.

[Tetrarch]

Personally I would do a combination of 1 and 3a

 

Lateral full-height skirting extends past the edge of the wall overlapping your cabinet and then a reduced-height perpendicular skirting to your plinth

Regards

Tet

[Russell griffiths]

Decor end panel should go to the floor. 

[-rick-]

2 hours ago, ProDave said:

I would take the skirting round the corner with a nice corner joint.  You may need to trim the top of the skirt to fit under the unit and would only work if your skirt was no thicker than the end panel of the unit.

 

I think I'd do this too.

 

The toekick/plinth bottom will be a good way back (not in line with the drawer fronts) and most of this won't be seen.

 

I would not do any of the options with an angled bit. That looks wrong. A version of 3c might be fine also.

[Nickfromwales]

2 hours ago, Russell griffiths said:

Decor end panel should go to the floor. 

And it should look symmetrical with the finger gaps both sides too (imo). 

[torre]

2 and then hopefully find an end panel offcut to fill down to the floor, definitely wouldn't have skirting in front of the end panel

[garrymartin]

Your PS suspicion is correct, as has been observed by @Russell griffiths and @Nickfromwales - the panel should have gone to the floor. Fixing/changing this is by far the best option.

 

Then, when it comes to what to do with the skirting, knowing the type and the profile would help with regard to how best to finish it. Is it a square profile?

[Spinny]

Thanks all.

After reviewing with SWMBO and reading the responses we are thinking we will have to do 3(c).

I have checked the drawings which are unfortunately not clear as this detail is obscured by measurement lines and panel number labels. It may be a design error. Although I think the existing panel should really run continuously down to the floor, this would mean replacing the panel. A new panel will take 6 weeks to for them to get. Fitting it will mean taking things apart again at that end of the kitchen. IMO pretty doubtful that they will accept doing all this at their cost. Therefore I think 3(c) is likely the only achievable way of filling the gap between the panel and the floor. Note: The plinth material is identical to the panel in width and colour, so we will end up with the panel having a visible joint line in it 90mm from the floor rather than being completely continuous. Not perfect but...

 

The skirting will be plain square edge board 100mm or so high and as thin as I can reasonably find - 12mm or less - painted white. Possibly might look at that skirting with the kind of shadow gap line effect cut into it.

 

(PS The symmetry of the vertical finger gaps is achieved at a wider level because the finger gap on the right is matched by a finger gap on the left of cupboards on the other side of the adjacent worktop and hob)

 

(PPS I wonder what detail is obscured by the label '26' at the other end of this kitchen unit run - see pic)

Edited 5 hours ago by Spinny