It's been a long time since trigonometry at school; can anyone help?

[KatyMac]

I need to know x if possible

Is it sine or cosine on tan or something?

God I feel old

We weren't allowed calculators in school. Didn't get to use them until uni.

Do you have the over? Do you have the kitchen?

Just shove it in and see what works. That's what I'd do. Much quicker.

Move the oven forward about 25 cm.

That's assuming your cabinets are placed symmetrically. Ie the ends of the cabinets are both the same distance from the corner.

Sorry no oven housing or spare cupboards

It needs to move 248.5.

The hypotenuse of the triangle with two 600 sides is 848.5, and the oven is already 600 units long.

I get SOHCAHTOA in my head too!

I think it's Sine=opposite/hypotenuse, Cosine=adjacent/hypotenuse and tangent=opposite/adjacent.

But I wouldn't be 100% sure that was right, nor have much confidence that any maths I did with it afterwards was accurate.

It's odd what stays in the mind after 25 years, isn't it?

I think it depends actually on how far your cupboards are from the corner.

Beat me to it!

And you will need both your cabinet ends to be a touch over 102 cm from that corner.

Or maybe I'm misunderstanding your problem. Are the cupboards already there? And if so, how far are they from the corner? Are you sure there is a 60 cm gap between them that fits perfectly?

Or are you installing the oven and the cupboards, in which case you are able to position the cupboards so that there is exactly a 60cm gap for the cooker between them?

It turns out that "√2 = 1.42" is engraved somewhere in the accessible recesses of my brain.

Unlike whether I've put the bins out or locked the front door.

Well this thread has just shown me that I have forgotten all the trigonometry I ever knew.

I'm planning the kitchen

I'm happy to lose the corners in the base units but I'd like to work out wall units going into the corner

It's so hard

If I was trying to work this out I would be cutting up bits of graph paper! 🙈
I have a visual brain not a maths one!

Here

If one angle is 45 degrees and the other one is a square, then the two lengths are the same! So it's 60!

But don't move the oven forward, keep where it is and have slightly longer lengths of unit both ways. You're wasting so much space otherwise.

That diag looks fine. You've got the cabinets starting 1093 mm from the corner, which gives you some nice wiggle room.

When the cabinets are, in put the oven in and bring it forward by eye till it nicely fits the gap.

It's going to give you a very long reach to get into that corner behind the oven, though! What will you use that space for? It'll be hard to clean if you can't easily reach it and it gets grease or other cooking mess back there. Will there be a splashback or something on the walls there?

But the plan looks fine otherwise. What do you need to measure? Are you sure that the cooker is actually 60cm deep as well?

Does the 1093mm length actually give you exactly 60cm between the cupbaords? I think it might give you slightly extra space, which would be fine - but are you putting some kind of divider between the cupboards and oven? What is going to fill those awkward triangle spaces?

Initially I was just going to box it in

But now I'm wondering if I could get longer cupboard and cut them at an angle so I can reach into them (eg an 800 with a 400 door maybe?)

But maybe only the wall units as I can barely get into base cupboards anyway

Just put the oven square against the wall where it says 4mm! Then you’ll have accessible space into the corner where you can put lots of thing!

How would you get in to clean in those gaps betweeb cooker and cupboards?

The answer to the OP question is 60 but the oven needs to be pulled out 248.5 from the wall (measured parallel to sides of oven) per a PP above. Square root of [600 squared plus 600 squared], minus 600 which is the depth of oven.

Because it is at 45 degrees it means the two short sides are the same length, so you don’t need sohcahtoa etc.