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   Steve1 | Aug 03, 2003 06:38am | #1

   no dave i didnt build the cabinets, they are all regular euro style cabinets from woodcrest

   the treatment behind the stove was as the designer put it to the client "steve will solve that one"!!!!!!!!!!

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   calvin | Aug 04, 2003 02:26am | #2

   Nice work steve. 

   Here's a corner I was lucky enough to have some windows in.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.

   Quittin' Time

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   PhillGiles | Aug 04, 2003 07:43pm | #3

   I think I recall hearing somewhere that Woodcrest is a marketing organization and don't actually build the cabinets..

   Phill Giles

   The Unionville Woodwright

   Unionville, Ontario

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   calvin | Aug 05, 2003 01:20pm | #4

   Laminate, wood edge. 

   Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.

   Quittin' Time

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   shake_n_stir | Aug 06, 2003 03:01am | #5

   Nice job! Corner installations of stoves sure waste some space.  one needs to figure out a way to make the over-the-stove counter removal so as to make a great secret gun case or jewelry box, etc.

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   calvin | Aug 06, 2003 05:12am | #6

   I've been doing lam tops for a long time.  I still think a specialty top manufacturer could do it quicker, cheaper and at least as good as satisfies me.  I don't do many.  Maybe 1/2 to dozen a year.  Hard to get in the groove with that paltry lam jobs.

   I use full thickness lam over 3/4 Industrial Flake (what they call it here).  The countertop blanks, 25x8'10'12' and 30x the same.  I used to use brain fade adhesive, switched to water based after thinking it would still hold (waited for others tops to fail).   Except for the longer set time and I couldn't roll it with my lam roller cover w/o discarding afterwards, I liked it.  Got to spreading the adhesive with a scrap pc of lam, sort of squeegy like.  Layed down an even amount that way.  Double brushed any cut out perimeters and edges.  Have never sprayed, tho use some contact in a spray can b/4.  Then the last top, found only solvent based in a brand I knew so got it and man o man, never felt like that before.  I swear my arms got numb, and I was big time dizzy.  So no more.  Back to the water.............

   I guess I would like to know about the pre bought nosings.  I don't do them.  Should try on something not for a customer.  Always worried about registering the spline and that nasty water entry point.

   Hope that's what you were after.

   Here's a trick if you could call it that.  I coat up the cut edge of the PB around the sink and any other cutout with a good grade of flexible caulk.  I'm thinking of it as a second line of defense for a leak around a sink rim or a dumped pot of water by the drop in range.  Plumber if he gets there soon enough considers it a bad idea.  Once dry, he don't care.  I don't know that this trick works, but I do know that it hasn't failed yet on my tops.  The ones I've ripped out often show blown up like a poisonous toad PB.

   sorry, my biorythims must be up........whatever they are.

   Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.

   Quittin' Time

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   calvin | Aug 06, 2003 02:28pm | #7

   That's a kindred  in the above pic.  Nice sink.  The local plumbing supply that had them folded, not sure if anyone else picked up the line.

   Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.

   Quittin' Time

6. 
   PhillGiles | Aug 09, 2003 10:06am | #8

   How far in the sticks do you live to not see Franke, Blanco, Dominox, American Standard, and Kohler everywhere ?

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   Phill Giles

   The Unionville Woodwright

   Unionville, Ontario

7. 
   toolin63 | Aug 11, 2003 09:24pm | #9

   I love that " Caulking is not a piece of trim" That phase should be standard on all job sites

   Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing!     Holmes Sr. Oliver Wendell