We have been renovating our kitchen for two years. Tomorrow the last trim is going up and today we discovered that a lokaflaska cracked at the cap and leaked liquid, causing one of our two completed kitchen cabinets from Ikea to swell. What to do? Can we do something or just take it down and buy new??
NOTE! If there is a risk that moisture may occur on the particle board, it must be protected in some way.
It's hard to see in the picture, but is it the inside of the cabinet you're seeing? When you've installed the new cabinet, you can preferably place a "cabinet liner" (or whatever they are called) inside. I.e. a mat that protects the underlying board from moisture.
In other words, a mat similar to the one you (hopefully) have installed in the sink cabinet.
Certainly true that one should, but I am not in the habit of having such protection in kitchen cabinets in case a soda explodes. I don't see that it would have helped either since the mat ends somewhere and it has spilled over the edges and damaged the wood there.
Yes, you just need to replace the frame. It's not a big cost, so there's no need to panic. But did it really take two years to renovate the kitchen? That's worse than my broken timelines...
Lordi> haha, yes unfortunately... But then 95% of the work took 5% of the time... And the five I just finished and assembled and painted took 95%, plus dismantling everything... When we removed the old overhead cabinet, it was glued to the side because there was simply no wall behind it! (= build a wall, level out, put up paneling and paint again, plus the wall it was attached to was just a thin board and cracked (naturally we had already renovated the other side...) then it turns out that the ceiling differs by three CM where we need to put up the cabinets and the wall behind might not support the weight of the cabinets so they are adjusted from the ceiling with some special screw gadget and the kitchen cabinets are rebuilt which means everything has to come down and go back up now that it's finally in place. Hence panic and irritation! I haven't done carpentry since shop class (except when I glued together three boxes to make a wardrobe ten years ago) and was so happy to finally be done with my ventilation grille and put it up.
tear away what has swollen and paint over the spot with a blocking paint to bind the particleboard, then fill with plastic padding and paint the entire frame... that is probably the easiest and don't load the heaviest thing you own into the cabinet at just the point where it is damaged!
