Countertops

Michael Holigan: After the cabinets are installed the next thing is countertops. The most common is laminate countertops. There is a series of paper that are pressed and heat treated together to give you a good solid surface. The pluses are there's a million colors, they're very strong and they're not very expensive. If you want to upgrade your cabinets later and change your countertop, it's not a lot of cost to change laminate countertops.

If you're going to consider upgrading your countertop, you might look at shell or marble or even ceramic tile. I always recommend a solid surface countertop. One, there's not seams so there's no trapped food particles or dirt. Two, if you like to write on your countertop or you have kids that like to write on it, you can just come up, put a little circle around it; with a Scotch Brite pad and start rubbing through that writing. And since it's a solid surface countertop, it's the same color through and through. So as you go down deeper and deeper in your countertop, you're getting back to the original color. It takes away any marks that were there previously. Now there's several brands. This is a Corian countertop that we're on. As you can see, once you're finished, it looks like just when we put it in there and installed it for the first time. It's beautiful, it can last for decades because it is very thick. On the edges you can get any shape or angle that you want and you can even put in inlays of different colors. It's all glued together, actually with some different chemicals and then they just take a grinder or a router and go along the edge and make any shape that you like.

Episode 015 1995 - 96 Season

| Cabinets | Countertops | Christmas Tree Formula | Kitchen Remodel | Leftover Concrete | Stenciling (design) | Lending for Difficult Credit |

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