Question for kitchen builders

[Arron]

Hi. I am finishing a kitchenette and a laundry. In both cases I am wanting to fit a cover panel to the underside of a row of elevated cabinets. The cover panels are about 2750 x 320 and 1500 x 320 respectively, are made of spray painted mdf, and will sit at about eye-level.

The alternatives I can see for fixing these in place are:
1. Use adhesive. Not preferred because I like all the cabinetry to be built to be disassembled in a non-destructive manner if need be.
2. Use screws from above. Not good because there will be screw heads in the floor of the cabinets - not visible but likely to be damaging to crockery etc.
3. Screw from below. Aesthetically not real good as the heads will be visible

So I have three ways of doing the job none of which I like.

Is there another method I’m missing?

How is this job usually done?

Cheers
Arron

[Chief Tiff]

Screw them from the inside of the cabinet with screws that are flush or just under the surface, then cover them with little stick on melamine screw covers (https://www.timbecon.com.au/fastcap-screw-cover-caps). These are available pretty much everywhere.

[Beardy]

This ^^^ is the standard practice and works just fine

[elanjacobs]

:wts:
If you want to get really fancy you can get the full FastCap kit to conterbore the sticky caps completely flush with the surface https://www.timbecon.com.au/fastcap-custom-colour-hole-punch-kits

As long as the screws are countersunk below the surface, you don't even need caps if all you're worried about is not damaging crockery.

[Beardy]

:wts:
If you want to get really fancy you can get the full FastCap kit to conterbore the sticky caps completely flush with the surface https://www.timbecon.com.au/fastcap-custom-colour-hole-punch-kits

As long as the screws are countersunk below the surface, you don't even need caps if all you're worried about is not damaging crockery.

They work quite well and give a neat finish

[elanjacobs]

Yep, just takes a bit of fiddling to get the depth set juuuust right :rolleyes:

[clear out]

Here’s a stupid suggestion.:D
Keyhole fittings in the underside of the cupboards.
Screws in the covers.
Problem is you’d need a heap of them and they’d be very fiddly to mark out and get to line up perfectly.
H.
Further thought :cool:if the covers are thick enough some dowels/biscuits etc along the rear, in horizontally. Dunno what these hang off. Sheet metal angle?
Maybe neat channel to slip back of cover in and hold it up. Now just support the front. Maggots!?:roll: