About to drill - think this through with me...

9 years ago

I've had the cord for my UCL just run across the upper backsplash area behind my range up til now (week or two). I wanted to wait until the vent hood was installed before drilling into the cabinets to string it between the two hidden.

I should have JUST enough cord to go through the cabinet above the vent hood. A couple of inches to spare.

But the vent hood is set out from the wall because of my 13" deep uppers. So I could run it behind the vent hood. Right now it's just a cavern back there, but I plan to do something to close it up after I tile the back splash.

I think the right thing to do is to go through the cabinet above the vent hood. But I want confirmation before I drill through my cabinets.

It's a 36"wide vent hood and cabinet above. The sides of the flanking wall cabinets would add 1.5" The vertical space it still needs to travel on the left to get up to where the hole would be is 11.5". That's 49". I have 52" before the plug on the end of the cord. that will put the plug safely through into the cabinet and able to connect to the splitter that's serving as the female/female connection for two plugs. I'm a bit concerned about the splitter dangling there, but I could tape it to the side of the cabinet if there's not a shelf for it to sit on in the right spot and it is weird dangling.

Am I good to go? Is that the better plan than taking the shorter route behind the vent hood itself?

This post was edited by cal_quail on Sat, Aug 16, 14 at 13:15

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brightm
Original Author
9 years ago
Never mind. I went for it. It worked perfectly. The splitter even went into the center cabinet. Now I just need some zip ties and tape to clean things up.
Errant_gw
9 years ago
I was nervous about drilling cabinets, too (and mine aren't even new). I'm glad you got it done and it worked out so perfectly. You are going to love your UCL :)
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greenhaven
9 years ago
Excellent! I love it when a plan comes together! And now we are ALL gonna be anxious for your reveal!
brightm
Original Author
9 years ago
Currently my dryer and speed oven are sitting out in the middle of my kitchen floor, so I've still got some time. The dryer should be installed Tuesday. (I didn't even THINK to check that the 220 outlet was 'the right' kind of 220 outlet.) The speed oven...who knows. There's also a lot of finish work on the cabinets (light rails, etc.). The GC asked when they could come this week, but didn't say for what. (dryer electrical work is a different guy)

I definitely won't wait for the backsplash. I may or may not wait for the pendants. We're going to have something designed to support them all rather than hang them individually. We've already got one hole/box/outlet or whatever in the ceiling and rather than having to deal with drywall work and hoping they can go exactly where we want them, we'll have a plate type thing built to suspend them. Then we can REALLY support them since the big one is really heavy. There's no access above the ceiling, so everything has to be done from below.
SMC0904
9 years ago
Off topic question but how much counter space do you have on each side of the stove?
brightm
Original Author
9 years ago
The lower cabinets are 24" on either side of the 30"range. The uppers are 21" on either side of a 36" hood.