Stove Lower than Countertops and Backsplash

last year

I recently updated my kitchen with cabinet refacing and quartz counter tops with full height backsplash on the wall behind the stove. Stove is Frigidaire electric. The stove sits about a half inch below the counter top on each side and just below the backsplash behind the stove. The stove legs have been raised to the highest level. I will be putting in new flooring and hoping that might solve the issue but I doubt it. What would be the best way to solve this issue?

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dserenity
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last year

I was thinking of asking the flooring installer if they could do something to raise the floor under the stove. But the anti vibration pads sound like a much simpler solution! Thanks so much for that idea!

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Monique
last year
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This is a fire hazard, and your quartz WILL scorch. Yes, electric can produce enough heat to make that happen. Yes, on your backsplash and your counter both. The best way to solve this is to throw it back in the lap of the kitchen designer who can’t do math or read specs.

Or if that is you, remove the splash, then ask at an industrial supply house about taller feet that fit the thread size of the range. You may have to pull it out, and lay it over on it’s back if you can’t measure from the front. Just go ahead and remove one of them and carry it with you. You will have to do that anyway to install new feet.

Some place like Johnstone Supply or Maintenance and Supply, Crown Bolt, etc. that carries a gamut of parts and pieces and folks who have worked there 25 years. No box stores with a $15 an hour 19 year old milking the clock.
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eam44
last year
Your stove has leveling legs that you have extended as far as you can, so now you need something to raise those legs a bit higher. Have you considered anti-vibration pads made for washing machines? They vary in height, but they are designed to hold the adjustable legs of a heavy major appliance and most are at least 1/2” thick.
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chicagoans
last year
Why have I never thought of anti-vibration pads under my washer? We have them under a (huge) air compressor in the garage, and they are rock solid. My washer came with the house and it likes to rock and roll when I have something like a comforter in there. Until I replace it, the a-v pads are a great idea.
eam44
last year
😂
HU-71233175
last year
Things that aren’t permanently attached to the range can’t work. You can’t pull it out and push it back in for cleaning.
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dserenity
Original Author
last year
That's a good point too.
rwiegand
last year

"Things that aren’t permanently attached to the range can’t work. You can’t pull it out and push it back in for cleaning."

Is that actually a thing? Our range weighs about 450 lbs, no way I'm pulling it anywhere. There's nothing back there that I want to know about in any event!
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eam44
last year
Yeah, thankfully most people don’t pull their range away from the wall once it has been installed unless there is a problem. The pads are not nailed to anything, you can pull your range off of them if you ever need to. Plus they are so inexpensive to try, in the $9-$12 range, you may as well give it a go.
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