Enlarged kitchen refrigerator recess
A photo copy of the review from Angie’s List website
Enlarged kitchen refrigerator recess
My client Richard whom also became my good friend asked me to help him modify the kitchen opening to receive the refrigerator he just purchased.
I needed to make the opening taller and wider.
I removed the upper cabinet above the fridge and rebuilt it, using new material for the box and reused the existing doors by cutting them shorter.
On the right hand side of the door the is a wall.
I made that wall shorter by six inches and thinner by replacing the half an inch drywall with eighth plywood.
The new dimensions of the new opening was just right for the new refrigerator.
My friend Richard was delighted and made his wife very happy.
Here is the review Richard gave to my work on Angie’s List website:
There is a recess for the refrigerator in our kitchen bordered by cabinets on the left and top, and a wall on the right. When we shopped for a replacement, every machine we wanted was ±1/2″ too tall and/or ±1/2″ too wide to fit the opening.
In addition, the way the doors on the new machines move, they swing to the outside of the refrigerators’ footprints, which would cause them to hit the wall at right and not be openable. We needed the space to be taller and wider and the wall pulled back to permit door swing.
We have known Dov for many years and used his services for a variety of pro- jects. He was thus our first telephone call. Knowing that the new refrigerator was due to be delivered within a week, the work had to be finished very quickly. Dov rearranged his schedule to accommodate us. To save time, I bought the needed materials ahead of time.
Dov was able to remove and shorten the cabinet overhead enough to accom- modate the new frig. (The doors actually work better now than they did before.) I feared that we would have to undergo major surgery, removing and reframing a wall in order to pick up a lousy 1/2″, but Dov came up with a quick and inex- pensive solution to widening the space: he stripped the thick drywall from the wall and replaced it with a very thin sheet of plywood, which is not visible being inside the refrigerator recess.
He only needed to demo about 8″ from the wall’s nose, pulling it back enough for the frig’s door swing to clear. He then refinished the end drywall. Best of all, except for paint, which I did the next day, the whole project took 4-5 hours.
Now my wife is delighted to have the refrigerator she wanted, and we didn’t have to “settle.”
Now my wife is delighted to have the refrigerator she wanted, and we didn’t have to “settle.”
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Dov Shapira, owner of Shapira Builders
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You are the best in what you do Dov! Another satisfied client. Congrats!
I didn't know you did this type of work too!
Great when a client is so happy that they will shout it from the mountain tops. Awesome job
Great Job Dov. I wish I was as handy as you are.
What a great review Dov! Sound like you go above and beyond for your customers! Glad I live in your area…I will keep you in mind if we ever need anything done 🙂
You always come through for people in a pinch, Dov. And your stellar reviews are well deserved. You are a true professional!
Well done on sorting out your friends fridge and your own. Shame there weren’t any pics and I couldn’t access the review.