Seamless Four Meter Compact Laminate Worktop Installation Without Expensive Stone Fabrication Costs

Marc Nash* (00:00) everybody's been really impressed by it we've got a friend who's an interior designer who said it looked beautiful, that's a nice my name's Mark Nash. I live in Plymouth, Devon, South West England. we were changing an existing worktop in our kitchen. We bought this house in June and we're renovating it. So we added to the kitchen units and in the process needed to change the worktop. we had a number of options that ⁓ were available to us and ⁓ went through those options considering each one on its merits and ended up for a combination of reasons with the House of Worktops compact laminate that we've installed. Because it was an existing kitchen, I was able to confidently produce the dimensions needed to cut it to size because we needed some insets cut for the sink and the hob. I felt confident that I would be able to do that without needing to get it preformed, which I would need for a stone or a quartz that added about a thousand pounds to the price. So it was an economical option for us. My greatest concern, I suppose, is the ability of the worktop to be able to withstand stains ⁓ as it does appear that I have to wipe it quite quickly if we spill anything on it. So red wine, for example, ⁓ if left on the worktop, I think might be a problem. So we're quite vigilant. in making sure that we mop up anything that we spill quite quickly. They were able to supply a worktop which was in excess of three and half meters. We needed a piece if we weren't going to have a join that was 3.8 meters long and they were the only people I could find that were able to supply four meter lengths. So that was a very big plus for us because it meant that we could have a continuous worktop with no joins. It feels great, I it's transformed it. We had a kind of wood effect worktop before and now we've got a very light marble effect and we're very happy with it. I think the whole process was very simple. From the initial inquiry to the time it took to deliver was very quick. And I was very impressed that the guys that brought the worktops down left the factory at three o'clock in the morning to get here by 10 o'clock, which meant that we had the whole day to install it, which was a great advantage because I had a couple of guys lined up to help me. and we managed to do it in a day. So it was all very efficient from start to finish. So as you see we had a cut out for, I haven't decided on the backsplash yet, ⁓ but the cut out for the hob, the upstand, and this piece was nearly four meters long without any joins.