ᐅ Installing a 90 cm Siemens Induction Cooktop in an IKEA Kitchen

Hello,

my name is Markus, and I have just registered in this forum. I am currently planning an IKEA kitchen and have noticed that new issues keep coming up every day. I’m sure many of you can relate.

Now to my problem: I would like to install the EH975SZ11E cooktop in the kitchen I’m planning. The cooktop is 910mm (36 inches) wide at the countertop level and requires an 880mm (35 inches) cutout. The maximum installation depth is 51mm (2 inches). The countertop is 40mm (1.5 inches) thick. The kitchen consists entirely of cabinets with drawers. Unfortunately, the widest IKEA cabinet is only 800mm (31.5 inches) wide, which means I would have an overlap of 4cm (1.5 inches) on each side with the adjacent cabinets. I would need to remove 11mm (0.4 inches) from the cabinets to accommodate the cooktop’s installation depth. Would the drawers of the adjacent cabinets still function properly then? Or is there another solution?

I hope I have explained myself clearly.

Best regards,

Markus

Hello Markus,
the successor to Faktum will also include cabinets that are 100 cm (40 inches) wide...

The drawers in the adjacent cabinets will still be functional. Take a look at the installation manual from Siemens. It might answer some of your questions—or maybe raise new ones, hmm...

Hello Markus,

then you need to notch out the side walls of the 80 cm (31.5 inch) base cabinets to fit the cooktop.

However, I would be surprised. I am not familiar with this Siemens model in detail and don’t have the technical drawings on hand, but take a look at the cooktop and underneath. It’s possible that the part that fits into the cabinet is less than 760 mm (30 inches), so you might not need to notch anything out at all.
If Siemens requires a shelf under the cooktop, you won’t be able to install it with notched side walls, which means no drawers can be placed underneath.

@IKEA-Expert
1000 mm (39.5 inch) cabinet? So far, I have only seen 400, 600, 800 mm (16, 24, 31.5 inches) and 200 mm (8 inch) units online, but those are probably just shelves.

I think the 100 cm (39 inches) unit will be a corner cabinet since no 50 cm (20 inches) doors are planned so far, and there isn’t a 50 cm (20 inches) cabinet in the system either. So to me, it doesn’t quite make sense for a 100 cm (39 inches) base unit.

The inside does Not dictate the outside.

Well, we’ll see. I’ll be traveling to Norway soon; maybe I’ll even stop by the moose, then I’ll see for myself.

You might be right. In the pictures, the base cabinets appear to be around 80cm (31.5 inches), and elsewhere it says: "Metod is based on entirely new dimensions, base cabinets have been raised from 70 to 80 cm (27.6 to 31.5 inches), and cabinet widths come in 20/40/60/80 cm (7.9/15.7/23.6/31.5 inches)."

In this regard, IKEA falls behind other kitchen manufacturers.

The 100 cm (39.4 inches) measurement probably refers to tall wall cabinets or those installed horizontally. We will find out from April 15th.