Kitchen Pass Through - Part 1

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Constructing A Kitchen Pass Through

Part 2

A kitchen pass through provides ease of moving meals from the cooking area to the eating area. In smaller homes it has the effect of making both the kitchen, cooking area and the dining area appear to be larger, reducing the claustrophobia that may be prevalent.

kitchen pass through

If you are contemplating building a pass through there is some initial investigation that must take place.

definig area to be cut for kitchen pass through

You must determine if the wall is a load bearing or supporting wall. If you determine that it is a supporting wall, or if you are unable to confirm that it is not a supporting wall you should use the construction methods detailed for opening a passage in a load bearing wall.
You should try to determine if the wall, specifically the area that you wish to remove, has electrical and/or plumbing services that will have to be re-routed. The re-routing of electrical and/or plumbing services has not been covered in this section because the number of possible scenarios are infinite.
You should consider the demolition aspect of this home improvement project.

Once you have decided to proceed follow this procedure for a nonbearing or non supporting wall. If you have a non-bearing wall you can easily install pocket doors in your pass through in order to close off the kitchen area if you so desire.

If you have a load bearing wall then you will have to install a support header across the opening as well as where the pocket doors rest in their open position. See the section on opening a passage in a load bearing wall.

This can be advantageous if you have guests over and they can see through the pass through and into your kitchen where you might have a bit of an untidy situation, to say the least!

To build in pocket doors into your kitchen pass through follow the procedure identified in the section on pocket doors. The pocket door information provided shows the doors being entrance doors, however, there is no difference other than the height of the framing.

Installing pocket doors will require that the wall be opened up 50% more on both sides of the planned opening. As well, you will have to cut out an additional 2" higher. It also means that there can be no obstructions in the wall in the door areas as well as the opening.

pocket door cutout for kitchen pass through

You can also install sliding doors on the outside of one of the sides of the opening if space allows.

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