Large island worktop options?

[Iknowcraig]

Hi all, I’m fitting a new kitchen and it has a large island, 2400x1200. My wife isn’t keen on wood due to maintenance and we like a white quartz look, but we really don’t care about having actual quartz. We would be happy with a nice laminate and much happier with the price!

problem is outside of quartz or wood I can’t find much in the way of large worktops suitable for the island, any ideas that are cheaper than quartz??

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Does it all have to be on the same level? Split level.iskands are not unknown. You can get 8 x 4ft granite, but you pay a hefty premium for the larger sizes, and getting them off the lorry and into a domestic property can be difficult impossible to achieve because of the weight and size.

 

[opps]

Does it all have to be on the same level? Split level.iskands are not unknown. You can get 8 x 4ft granite, but you pay a hefty premium for the larger sizes, and getting them off the lorry and into a domestic property can be difficult impossible to achieve because of the weight and size.

I think he is asking if he can have a laminate worktop.

I guess the response is Yes if he is happy to pay for someone to laminate it. Surely there must be online firms that will offer that service?

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Not really an on-line item. Granite is generally cheaper than quartz and available in large sizes. So is marble, but it stains too readily for use in a kitchen. For over size Corian (or solid surface) is often the best bet, but it costs even more than granite these days. In laminate with post formed edges you are normally restricted to something like 900mm (3ft) width x 3100mm (10ft) - look for Pfleiderer (Duropal), Bushboard, etc, or the firms who supply 4.1 metre lengths of standard worktop in 38mm thickness, but there are some specialist post form worktop manufacturers, like Workshop Designs in Sandbach, who can make specialist sizes to order up to about 1.2m wide. There is also a place in Sheffield but I can't for the life of me remember the name

I think that delivery costs are going to be the biggest "ouch" factor in all this if you go to laminate - that and having the required number of bodies to manhandle a potentially 130 to 150kg worktop off the van and into the kitchen (approx. weight of a 4m x 1.2m x 38mm worktop). Even a 900mm x 3.1m top is a 2- or 3-man job. Glad I no longer fit out bars and that my days of humping this sort of stuff are now behind me