Counter installed - overhangs look too deep!
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Comments (27)@mudworm, I've never seen any numbers on what overhang soapstone can handle without support. Because it is softer than granite, I'd guess that it wouldn't handle as much - but there are different kinds of strengths so I could be wrong. Maybe you could put up a post with a title like "How much support for a soapstone overhang?" Something to get the folks who know soapstone better to comment. You wouldn't wand to do it without a subtop and have it crack - especially if it fell on someones foot. You might think of it as a sub-top rather than a rough top. You want a finished surface because it will be visible. It could be plywood with a 1/4 round molding along the edge painted to match the wall. Or wood veneer to match your cabinets. @natal - the raw granite for our island cost over $2000 - that's not counting the fab. Looking around on the web, piece of cherry veneer cabinet grade 3/4" plywood, 4 x 8 is less than $200. I'm sorry that I didn't think of it at the time. It's true that isn't a big deal to not have that touch, but it would have been worth the small additional cost to me....See Moregranite counter-top seams ... are we being too picky?
Comments (44)These are my pics of my countertops placed Friday June 22, 2018. I cried looking at these seams. It looks so cheap. Fabricator explains that's the way it comes. I explained that I shouldn't be able to see the seams so clearly. It looks so unprofessional. They ended up taking them back to their warehouse. In hopes they say if it is quality control will try and fix it just to make it look better. Otherwise I will have to pay an additional fee for them to come out again to install. I just don't know what to do and if still looks the same. This is the first time I've replaced my counters in 24 years. I don't and can't live with it. looking at this for another 24 years. It looks so cheap and it really was not it's a lot of money to me. I hope fingers crossed that they will fix this problem. They never told me that there would be such seams. I thought the edges were done by a machine and it would be all one piece. I have read up on this and now understand there are seams. But now I do know that they should not look like this. If they are good fabricator you shouldn't be able to see them so clearly. I will find out next week what happens....See MoreCountertop overhang too small?
Comments (4)Hmm, I did not specify an overhang except on the bar top. I thought the other overhangs were pretty standard. So we talked to vendor and they said they would fix the shorter overhang (which is on the sink side) by repositioning the top. The gap at the end is supposed to be hidden by the backsplash. Not sure how this is going to look. I went and looked at it again today and it looks like it is only 1/4" to 3/8" off so maybe the gap will not be noticeable....See MoreCounter installed, incorrect overhang..
Comments (21)"This applies to any stone - engineered/quartz, granite, soapstone, etc." Respectfully, it does not. Engineered stone has four times more flexural strength than natural stone. This is not my opinion, it is fact. 3cm Zodiaq can be cantilevered up to 14" without additional support according to its manufacturer, DuPont. The Marble Institute of America wants natural stone overhangs of 3cm supported after exceeding 10". Rip a 4" wide 8' long piece of 3cm natural stone and estone and lay each on their backs on the shop floor and attempt to pick up each in the middle. The granite will break; the estone will not. While I'm a huge fan of Kevin's, I'm not a huge fan of the Counterbalance plates. At 9" and 12" (+_) they are too short to meaningfully apply the 1/3 - 2/3 rule of cantilevering and I just don't like steel on the flat....See MoreFori
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