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Readikit® Modular Kitchen Solutions
Our Readikit Installation Guideline DVD
We recommend you view our Readikit Modular Kitchen Solutions Installation guideline DVD before commencing with your DIY project, including chapters 1- 3 of the DVD in their entirety prior to viewing each guideline chapter thereafter. These chapters will provide helpful hints to be used as a guide, with regards to the safety equipment and tools recommended to assist you with your assembly and installation.
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Planning
Whilst Readikit® Modular Kitchen Solutions endeavour to make installing your own kitchen easier by providing individual cabinets and associated components which you or your tradesperson/s can readily assemble. We are not responsible for the cabinet installation within your kitchen or other environments into which you choose to place them or, the method and practices adopted to install them.
This means that we recommend you always consult suitably qualified and certified electrical, gas and plumbing, building, flooring, tiling and other tradespeople to gain sound advice, anticipated costs for foreseen works such as the removal, change, addition or re-installation of electrical, gas and plumbing appliances and services, requirements for straightening or strengthening walls, plastering, anchoring cabinets and components to walls, levelling of floors and checking structural suitability.
Structural and building standards and specifications will also need to be explored, to ensure you create your kitchen to the standards and requirements to suit your local area. Always check Australian and local building codes and standards as well as appliance manufacturers specifications and recommendations before commencing.
For instance walls or floors are rarely level, so cabinets might not always fit into the space you think you have available to you. Like any painter that needs to start with the right canvas in order to create their masterpiece , think of assembling and installing your own kitchen in the same way. You’ll need to know what you’ll need, who you’ll need and of course, that it will fit into your budget.
Unforeseen events can occur and being prepared can assist to reduce their impact on both your time and budget.
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Where to start?
- The measurements of your room:
You can map the length & width of your room on the planagram within the Readikit® Modular Kitchen Solutions brochure. Call 132 136 to have one sent to you or easier still, print the planagram pages of the guide and popouts from our website, then cut out your popouts to give designing your own kitchen or living area a try.
- The placement of your kitchen appliances:
Where are your current oven, hotplate, rangehood, sink, dishwasher and other appliances situated in your kitchen? Place the popouts on your planagram in these positions first, then plan your cabinet design around them. Don’t forget to take into account where your windows, lights & powerpoints are currently located to avoid needing costly changes to these locations later.
We recommend that you always use suitably qualified and certified tradespeople to remove and re-install your existing kitchen appliances even if you are not changing their position.
- If changing the layout of your kitchen & appliances:
If you wish to use this opportunity to move the positioning of your current kitchen appliances, add new appliances, change or add powerpoints, alter your lighting, windows or walls, flooring or install additional appliances such as hot/filter water taps, water saving devices or food waste disposal units, we recommend you explore what is possible first, with suitably qualified and certified tradespeople, to gain sound advice and indications of timing, service availability and cost.
- Tips for designing your own kitchen masterpiece:
When designing your kitchen layout, remember to position your sink bowls over open cabinets, as they can not be installed over drawer cabinets, base oven cabinets, open shelf units or dishwashers. Always engaged suitably qualified plumbers for removal or installation of your sink and taps and any other related plumbing appliance or service.
All end panels are approximately 16 - 17mm wide for melamine colours and approximately 18-19mm wide for double sided vinyl gloss colours. Don’t forget to allow for these in your design so that the measurements of your design don’t exceed your available space.
It’s also handy to note that if designing a kitchen run that extends along one wall, against adjacent walls on the left and/or right, then remember to include provision for end panels or filler panels where cabinets meet the wall. This will be important to ensure that you can open your cabinet doors fully once installed.
You’ll need to coordinate suitable Readikit benchtop installation and kitchen appliance cut outs (i.e. for your hot-plate and sink), in accordance with the kitchen appliance manufacturers specifications. Our installation guideline DVD outlines how with the right tools and skill you could do these yourself. Please don’t undertake any task or project yourself however, if you are not convinced that you can handle the project requirements and tools safely and without harm to yourself or others. If in doubt get a certified tradesman to assist, whilst you sit back and relax.
When viewing the installation guideline DVD, we recommend that you view it in totality including chapters 1-3, prior to proceeding with the do it yourself (DIY) option. To be used as a guide only, these chapters can provide helpful hints with regards to general kitchen installation and the safety equipment and tools recommended to assist you with your assembly and installation.
Customised Readikit benchtops are available Made To Order (MTO) in the range of Readikit colours and styles. We recommend using customised benchtops with mason’s mitre joins, where benchtop corners are required, such as for L-shaped or U-shaped kitchen styles. Please ensure all measurements and designs for made to order benchtops are accurate before order placement with your retailer.
- Tools and safety equipment recommended to assist installation:
Whilst personal protection equipment is not usually required for intact products, when cutting, drillng, sanding or finishing products, light weight rubber safety gloves, protective eyewear, hearing protectors or dust mask or respirator may be required. Avoid breathing generated dust. Safety gloves are recommended for use where there is exposure to sharp tools, materials, adhesives and solvents.
Please ensure that all tools and safety equipment is in a safe condition prior to use. We recommend that you use appropriate tools and safety equipment that comply with Australian Standards and conduct use in accordance with the tools or safety equipment manufacturer’s guidelines and specifications.
If use of safety gloves is not practical, additional care must always be taken to avoid injury, particularly when handling laminate edges and edgestrip, benchtop exposed ends, panels, hardware or, other potentially sharp surfaces or tools.
Always use clean up practices recommended by manufacturers immediately, if skin or eyes comes into contact with adhesives, cleaners and/or other solvents or irritants.
Please refer to Readikit Modular Kitchen Solutions brochure including handy hints, product guide and individual assembly instruction guidelines for further & important information.
The contents of this website and all associated information including brochures, handy hints & planagram, readi-designed flyers, Readikit product guides, assembly instruction guides and installation guideline DVD are intended for use as a guide only. We hope they assist you in making your kitchen your own, to create and live your dream.
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