Can you join a bit onto a wooden worktop to make it deeper?

[M4R5]

Part of my very slightly L-shaped worktop needs to be 670mm deep, but 620m worktops are so much cheaper. I wondered if a bit of PVA and some clamps would be enough to make a good invisible join for the last 600mm of the worktop length.

Thanks

 

[foxhole]

Do you have a pic of problem, may be another solution.

 

[Jasonb]

Provided the two mating edges are good then there should not be a problem, a few biscuits would help but not essential if the small return is supported by a cabinet.

For short returns like this its better to do as you are than joining a 70mm bit cut off the end of the run. I assume its in a corner and the L just returns to an appliance like a range and teh 70mm if to allow the door room to swing open.

J

 

[M4R5]

Hi Jason

Thanks, that's spot on.

By "better to do as you are" do you mean better to buy a deeper worktop and cut it back?

 

[Jasonb]

No better to stick on a strip with the staves running in the same direction like you propose than doing a 70mm return with the grain at right angles to the main worktop.

J