Hi, all!
We recently had a new Ikea kitchen installed by a professional builder and a granite benchtop installed by a stonemason.
A few days after install of the benchtop I noticed a gap had appeared between two of the cupboards, and the end of one lot of drawers is now "stepped" indicating it has swayed to the side. on the other side the benchtop appears to have raised at the end. (see pics)
Being an Ikea kitchen, its fixed to a rail running across the back wall and each cabinet stands on four Ikea plastic screw legs which all appear intact bar one, which is at the front of the main gap and has not broken but has popped out of its recieving holes in the cabinet base. The adjoining cabinet walls are screwed to each other. I bought some screwjacks from Bunnings and have put them under the gap to try and prevent any further sinking (you can see one in the pic).
The builder tried to clamp it back together with some light clamps but it didn't work. He advised he's going to try to lever it up, pack it and then reclamp and rescrew.
The backsplash (stainless) will go in soon and I'm concerned about potential movement of the benchtop during any repair process. Im also concerned about how simple (or otherwise) this will be to repair.
Has anyone come across this kind of thing before? Can you provide any advice or insight as to what I should discuss with my builder?
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Thanks in advance!