Enlarged kitchen refrigerator recess
The review at Angie’s List
Enlarged kitchen refrigerator recess
Here is what he wrote.
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 projects. 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 accommodate 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 re-framing a wall in order to pick up a lousy 1/2″, but Dov came up with a quick and inexpensive 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.”
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Dov Shapira, owner of Shapira Builders
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