Kitchen Words, in Plain English
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Fifteen terms
- Carcass
- The cabinet box that the door hangs on.
- Drawer front
- The face of a drawer, replaced with the doors.
- End panel
- The finished side of a run of units.
- Plinth
- The kickboard along the bottom of the base units.
- Cornice
- The trim along the top of wall units.
- Pelmet
- The trim under wall units, often hiding lights.
- Shaker
- A door with a frame and a flat centre panel.
- Slab
- A flat, plain door.
- Foil wrap
- A vinyl skin pressed onto an MDF door.
- Upstand
- A low strip of worktop material up the wall behind the worktop.
- Inset sink
- A sink that sits on top of the worktop.
- Undermount sink
- A sink fixed under a stone or solid worktop.
- Template
- The exact pattern taken on site before a stone worktop is cut.
- Soft-close
- Hinges and runners that slow a door or drawer before it shuts.
- First fix
- Cables and pipes put in before surfaces are finished.
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More on refurbishing a kitchen
Costs, doors, worktops and timing.
What it costsFrom a €700 respray to €5,000 for doors and a worktop.
Replacement doorsMade to measure for your units, from €48 a door.
A new worktopLaminate €800 to €2,000. Quartz €2,200 to €4,800.
Refurbish or replace?Five checks on the units you have.
The small partsHandles and soft-close hinges, €150 to €450.
Ten changes, by costWhat makes the most difference for the least.Kitchen refurbishment in every county
- Carlow44% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Cavan50% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Clare42% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Cork38% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Donegal48% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Dublin32% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Galway48% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Kerry42% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Kildare48% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Kilkenny41% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Laois50% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Leitrim48% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Limerick39% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Longford47% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Louth41% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Mayo43% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Meath48% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Monaghan39% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Offaly42% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Roscommon44% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Sligo43% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Tipperary39% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Waterford40% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Westmeath46% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Wexford48% of homes built 1991 to 2010
- Wicklow37% of homes built 1991 to 2010
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