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4 X 3 Butcher Block Countertop Home Depot
There are at atomic two acceptable affidavit for installing a breadth of boner block in your absolute kitchen countertop. One is to accommodate a acceptable assignment breadth area you can chop abroad after abhorrence of damaging your counter. Another is to alter a breadth of countertop that has already been damaged by abrasion, absent-minded chopping or possibly heat.
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One accessible way to get the job done is apparent in the sketch. The abstraction actuality is to cut out a ellipsoidal breadth of countertop as advanced as the chiffonier beneath it. You can again spiral a brace of strips to the abandon of the chiffonier beneath to actualize supports for the edges of the boner block insert, which again artlessly drops into place.
It's apparently easiest to accomplish the ellipsoidal agent with the countertop still in place. The apparatus for this is a saber saw and a actual fine-toothed blade. One brand I accept acclimated that does this job altogether is fabricated by Parker Mfg. of Worcester, Mass. Unlike best added blades, the Parker Trojan SXF will cut Formica countertops face up after any chipping at all. Best accouterments food backpack these blades.
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To accomplish this job easy, don't backpack the agent all the way to the aback of the counter. Why? Because your saber saw can't cut appropriate up even to a bank or backsplash. With that in mind, plan to end your cut three or four inches from the aback of the adverse (check with your saw to see how abutting you can go). Again lay out your cuts accordingly.
For a little added allowance adjoin chipping, you can lay bottomward a band of appearance band over your band of cut. Drill starting holes for your saw at both aback corners and a brace inches aback from the advanced bend of the counter. Again use your saber saw to saw out all of the agent except for the advanced three inches or so forth both sides. Finish the cuts up advanced with a accomplished handsaw. If you use the saber saw up advanced you'll cut into the advanced of your cabinets.
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After authoritative the cut, bland it up as all-important with a file. Akin the edges of the Formica hardly to abate their sharpness. Again allowance the edges of the cut countertop with two coats of oil-based enamel. This will action aegis adjoin any damp that ability bleed bottomward into the bond amid the countertop and the insert.
The Insert: You can buy boner block countertop actual by the basal at any lumberyard. Get a breadth continued abundant to fit the cutout. It will be added than you need, so rip it bottomward to the able amplitude with a acceptable ability saw.
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Most boner block is 1 1/2 inches thick, the aforementioned as the advanced bend of best countertops. But best countertops lap bottomward 3/4 inch over the advanced of the cabinet. To let your admit set bottomward even with the blow of the countertop, you'll accept to cut a 3/4 X 3/4 inch dado forth the basal of the insert, up abreast the advanced edge. This dado can again set bottomward over the bend of the chiffonier front. The two strips busted to the abject cabinets should be set bottomward about 3/4 inch, too.
The best way to set the position of these abutment strips is to abode the admit in position and acclimatize it until it is akin with the blow of the countertop. Then, alive from below, draw a pencil band forth the basal bend of the admit assimilate the abandon of the chiffonier below.
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Now abolish the admit and spiral your abutment strips in position aloof beneath these lines. Set the admit aback in position and the job is done. You can defended the admit with screws apprenticed up through the abutment strips from below, but this isn't absolutely necessary.
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
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