We are planning some alterations to our downstairs, involving making three rooms (kitchen, dining room and family room) into one and moving the kitchen to the opposite end of the space.0. Where the kitchen is now is awkward with lots of doors opening off- the layout doesn’t work for us but there aren’t really any alternatives if we keep it where it is.
We’ve just got to the point of paying an initial deposit for a new kitchen, and I’ve been reading through the small print before signing the full contract. I’ve noticed that in amongst the information, it states that underfloor heating must not be installed under cabinets. The thing is, there’s already underfloor heating installed over the whole floor in the area we are moving the kitchen to.
I don’t see what we can do about this- every builder we have consulted has said to avoid touching the underfloor heating as far as possible (in the context of other alterations) so I don’t see how we can move it away from where the kitchen cabinets would go.
Has anyone else come across this issue and what did you do about it? Is it the case that we have to leave the kitchen where the original builders of the house had it, forever? (Cursing them even more right now for their annoying design ideas!)