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thescruff
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Why not buy new doors, they're all pretty much standard.
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Use two-part woodfiller, it'll suffice till you can afford a new kitchen!
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Argyll
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| thescruff wrote: |
| Why not buy new doors, they're all pretty much standard. |
It's not on the door it's the carcass.
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Only-Me
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2 part car body filler 
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Tryanything
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If its a flat pack unit, the self assembly type, (you can tell by fixings on the top and bottom of the unit)
You can drill new fixing hole and turn the panel round the other way
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Hoovie
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:36 am Post subject: |
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Never seen those before  - look perfect
I agree with DWD 
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Argyll
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Thanks for all advice. I'll certainly be looking at those fixings 
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fin
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go to a local diy place that sells laminated chip board type stuff. get one as close as you can to the kitchen units. pull out the affected unit and strip off the side that needs replacing. line up the seen edge with the edge of the new board (they will have edges already glued on either side) and drill through the existing gable to get the holes where u want them. make sure you dont drill too deep. then re assemble the unit once you have cut the new piece to size
edit: obviously you will need to clamp the 2 pieces together or theyll slide about and youl end up with holes all over the place
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And what about all the pre-drilled holes etc, and that most units like this have fittings that are not available off the shelf!...............Not a good idea me thinks and the best solutions have already been submitted!
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fin
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gadget, if you use the correct size drill you can drill through the old gable and get all the holes in the right place. theres usually 2 maybe 3 different sized drills needed
as its the gable that is damaged and not the base it would prove a fairly straight forward task to make a new gable up.
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dewaltdisney
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The hinge plates save an awful lot of work though and they are cheap.
Following your method Fin, the OP could run into trouble with the cam and dowel joints and the thickness of the boards available. Also a circular saw would be need to do a couple of passes to form the backboard housing slot.
It really boils down to how competent the OP is to take that on. This is not a criticism, as I would do it your way, just a comment.
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fin
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yeah i totally forgot about the need for a circular. oops. ive done it that way a few times now and was as good as new when all was reinstalled.
providing the correct size drill was used then i dont see how a cam joint could cause a problem as the cam is located on the base or upper rail. all you need is the hole for the screw that the cam bites onto
but yeah dwd i know what your saying about how competent someone else may or may not be.
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Hoovie
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and the guy did say he was essentially looking for a temporary fix as he intends replacing his kitchen in the future anyway, so those repair plates would be the most cost effective way to do that, otherwise he could do it the 'proper' way and then end up throwing away all that good work soon afterwards.
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