Browse Forums Kitchen Corner 1 Apr 14, 2012 10:49 pm Hi, We are in the middle of a kitchen installation. We have had a bit of an issue in the last couple days around the installation of our bench and the induction cooktop. I was wondering what others experiences have been, and if anyone has any advice. We have a 900mm cabinet for our 600mm cook top that has 3 drawers (cutlery and two deeper ones). The drawers have a gap at the back. According to our original plans, the top drawer was fixed, but during installation, we were advised that they had made a mistake and that the drawer was not fixed. (yeah more storage!) We had the ceaserstone man out to measure last week. He read the installation manual for the Electrolux Cook top and advised us that we needed to have 5mm ventilation at the front of the cabinet. That means we should remove the front bracing piece that runs across the front of the cabinet. The kitchen man reckons this is rubbish and that he has never had to do this before. Further, if we remove this piece, we will have nothing supporting the stone bench at the front of the cabinet. The Electrolux User Manual says we don't have to do this if we have a 'Protection' box. However, we called Electrolux today and they were unable to locate this item for us to order ( the manual calls it an accessory; but Electrolux need a 'spare part #' ). They need to speak to their technical guys on Monday The kitchen man has come back to us and suggested that he will trim this piece of cabinet the 5mm for the 600mm width. No change to the drawer front, as there is a space anyway between the drawer top and the bench top. I seems odd that this has been an issue. The kitchen people knew we were having an induction cooktop & had the model specs etc. look forward to hearing from others Re: Ventilation space under Electrolux Induction Cook Top 2Apr 16, 2012 10:44 pm My Electrolux induction top specified ventilation. I routed a wide slot on the top of the underbench oven cabinet (which the cooktop was located above) 5mm deep at the point where the benchtop sits on the top of the cabinet. It drew cool air from the kickboard area and vented out through the slot. You have to remember induction cooktops are NOT like resistive coil or halogen cooktops. Induction cooktops have an electronics module that drive the induction coils. The electronics have to be cooled by a fan in order to work effectively. Re: Ventilation space under Electrolux Induction Cook Top 3Jul 05, 2021 12:52 am Saw this post doing my own research in response to a kitchen cabinet installer who said the same ("they have never seen this requirement before"). I've asked this installer three times to install this ventilation gap and their responses are similar to the original poster here (support for the countertop would be compromises, etc.). I've asked them three times to install this gap and they have told me three times I don't need it - now my cooktop has started to overheat and shut-down, so I will be insisting this is installed or will cancel my contract with them for future work. Told our installer about the problem and he laughed. He is a certified installer for a number of companies and has been doing this for over 30 years. He said every kitchen cabinet maker knows about this requirement - they just don't want to do it. And he then warned us the induction cooktop would start to overheat if we didn't get this done - which has already started to happen. You will have to insist that your cabinet installer does this. I'm near the end of a whole-house rebuild and have had this experience with a number of trades over requirements (usually manufacturer's requirements) - they will look at you as if you have 3 heads and tell them "no one has ever asked for that before" or something like "you don't need that". You must insist. It's not BS if the manufacturer requires/strongly recommends it. They recommend it for a reason and know more about their own product than the installers - of course. Thought I'd post here to urge other homeowners to put their foot down when it comes to these requirements - esp. safety/warranty requirements. You must insist. Brass fly wire, you will need to cut it, shape it and jam it into brick slots 1 7488 You can really use anything you want the main consideration would be how it looks once painted/finished - or the look you want. Cabinetmakers use MDF because its cheap… 2 9969 |