joining kitchen worktops - help please

[christopher haley]

Can anybody explain how professional joiners join together kitchen worktops?

You know, so as the join is flush and almost undetectable. The alternative
is those metal strips which fit between the two pieces but my wife thinks
they're unsightly.

The worktops I am dealing with are 40mm thick, laminated surface with a
rounded front edge. They will join as I turn the corners in the kitchen.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks - Chris H

[scoff]

To butt and scribe a worktop is not an easy task.

Firstly if you don't have the correct tools you don't have a prayer.

You need a router (a good one at that) and a template, and the bolts.

Total is about £300.

A good joiner will charge in the reigon of £90-120 depending..
Get the joiner in would be my firm advice
good luck
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[aws]

Postforming is done with a heavy duty router (1/2in) and a template designed
to make the various angles. Screwfix sell the template for £99 or you can
find a kitchen fitter who will cut the surfaces for you.

[Martin Eva]

Chris

Basically a channel is cut accros the join underneath, the joint is glued
and the bolted up from
underneath.

I replaced my kitchen last year, and out of everything I did, including
plumbing, wiring,
tiling etc, it is the only thing I paid someone to do as I figured a cock up
here would be
visible for years to come and we would regret not having it done properly

Regards

Martin

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[Michael Holdsworth]

From: Michael Holdsworth <Michael.H...@tesco.net>
To: A Hughes <in...@elogica.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Laminate Worktop
Date: 03 November 1999 20:08

Its called a "mason" joint and its made with arouter and a special template.
You can hire a router, but you need to buy a 1/2" x 50 mm cutter. Jewsons
used to hire the templates, if you can't hire one, they cost between £100.00
and £175.00, hardly worth it for one joint. Cheaper to ring a kitchen fitter
and get him to come round.

Best wishes

Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: A Hughes <in...@elogica.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: tnn.diy
Date: 01 November 1999 13:25
Subject: Laminate Worktop

>Hi
>
>I am installing a new kitchen, and require that two laminate surfaces join
>at right angles. How can I best do this without the join being visible?
>
>My friends kitchen tops look like they have been cut very well, and the
join
>is almost invisible. all his surfaces have a rolled edge at the front.
>
>Any help is appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>in...@elogica.demon.co.uk
>
>
>
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[Susan Jenkins]

I don't like those metal strips either and had the same problem when we
fitted our kitchen about three years ago. We managed to get hold of
coloured plastic(?) strips that were the same colour as the worktop. You can
hardly see them at all. We got them from the same place as the kitchen. I've
also seen then at MFI

Not sure if this helps. Good luck

[scoff]

Problem with plastic strips is that they are raised and collect dirt.
Not a good thing in a kitchen!

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