Hi,

I recently moved into apartment which we just bought. During cleaning I observed there is this space below oven. What is it for ? It seems it's purposely left open. It's fully renovated apartment. Is this renovation flaw ? Dirt can go inside so I am right now covering via mat. Is there any better solution to this ? Is this serious ?

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  3. It’s hidden by the oven, typical to leave it unfinished since nobody is going to look there anyway. Until they clean behind the oven..

  4. I have no idea what I am looking at in this image

  5. Probably the oven was replaced after renovation, and the new one had slightly different measurements than the old one. Who knows why they didn’t put the flooring under the oven tho…

  7. It’s missing a bit of skirting board (jalkalista to google). Find something that matches the rest of the kitchen and put it on with a bit of adhesive.

    Or you can just pull out the oven to hide the gap. If it doesn’t bother you having it stick out a bit…

  8. It’s just a bit too short plank on the flooring I would think. When you put the flooring in you dont want the kitchen to rest on the flooring as it stop the natural movement of the floor due to moisture variations. Also you don’t want to pay for the floor where you don’t need it. But you would have wanted that plank a bit longer.

    People here talk about a skirting board, I think that’s wrong, I think you have one like this there: [https://www.ikea.com/no/en/p/foerbaettra-plinth-white-40327505/](https://www.ikea.com/no/en/p/foerbaettra-plinth-white-40327505/) If it’s like the IKEA one, you can pull it off and look behind it. Then you can, if you like fill the gap with something.

  10. Renovation mistake. You can cover the gap with skirting board.

  11. You can buy jalkalista and install it flat against the floor to cover such wide gap.

  12. Kick it towards the opening. It probably has just moved. It is also missing the base board, but if you kick it, it hides the gap.

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