Wall distance Faktum FA 157 corner base cabinet

  • Erstellt am 2013-04-29 21:37:51

schaema

2013-04-29 21:37:51
  • #1
Hello everyone,
today we just planned our new Ikea kitchen and couldn’t fully answer one question.
It’s about the corner base cabinet FA 157 with the pull-out fittings.
Although there are already some posts about this cabinet, I couldn’t find an answer and hope you can somehow help me.

For the Faktum corner base cabinet with pull-out (FA 157), the IKEA colleague mentioned 2 minimum clearances that we “have to” maintain:
1. The distance of the FA 157 to the adjoining cabinet (in the corner) should be 5 cm
2. The distance of the FA 157 to the wall (short side of the Faktum in the corner) should be 10 cm.

(1.) I can understand – so that the door of the next cabinet can open (although 1-2 cm should also suffice).

(2.) I can’t understand because the pull-out frame can be extended even when the FA157 door is not fully opened.
These 10 cm “away from the wall” cause me two problems that I can’t solve:
a. with the wall cabinets: hanging corner cabinet above the FA157 60 cm wall cabinet = 10 cm shorter than the FA157 “10 cm wall clearance.” The Ikea colleague recommended a filler strip between the hanging corner cabinet and the next wall cabinet. Not a really great solution.
b. the adjoining cabinets (in the picture to the right) I would also have to pull 10 cm away from the wall or insert another filler strip so that the look in the corner matches (not white). Also not really great.

What should I make of these 10 cm? What are they good for and don’t they basically make a corner solution “unusable”?

It would be great if you could help me here or have an idea to somehow fix this “little problem.”
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Marcel
 

IKEA-Experte

2013-04-29 22:27:08
  • #2
Hello,
I have this corner cabinet and had to install it without the 10 cm. There would have been problems if the handle of the adjacent cabinet was too close to the corner cabinet. With the tag (LA 128 mm) in the middle of an 80 cm base cabinet, it worked fine.

I recently removed the pull-out turn thing. I think it's useless. You can only load each shelf with a max. of 12 kg. That's not much on the surface. Over time, the shelves also sagged and the lower one partially scraped against the bottom of the carcass. Additionally, the shelves are standardly tilted so that the rotated and pulled-out shelf swings back by itself and slams against the carcass edge.
I have now installed pull-outs instead. However, I had to come up with something for the front because the handles of the adjacent cabinet were now in the way.

By the way, the corresponding fittings for Metod specify a max. load of 18 kg.
 

JuliaJulia

2013-05-02 14:29:31
  • #3
To the IKEA expert:

[*]For the corresponding Metod fittings, a maximum load of 18 kg is specified, by the way.[*]

How do you know that? Is it possible to plan your kitchen with Metod in advance somewhere?

Best regards
 

IKEA-Experte

2013-05-02 14:37:19
  • #4
On ikea.no or ikea.dk, METOD is already available.. With Google Chrome, you can also have everything translated for you immediately. Best in English. It seems to go through the English translation into German and then becomes less understandable.
 

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