My kitchen is U-shaped, with a cooker in the centre of the back wall. I'm about to get some worktops to finish it at long last.
I've spoken to many resellers but none of them seem to understand my concerns about wood expanding across the grain more than along the grain. I'm concerned that joining two worktops at 90 degrees will cause the wood to split as one worktop expands in a direction perpendicular to the direction that the other worktop s expanding in.
I don't want to have a 90 degree join anyway, because the sink is right by the corner and you're not supposed to have joins so close to the sink. Doing the worktop the other way wouldn't be any good as the depth of the L is only 90mm.
My original plan was to have 2 long worktops cut into L shapes and be done with it. But I'm not sure that this will look as good as you'll get endgrain around the cooker.
My new idea is to join the worktops at 45 degrees, which would look great and be far enough away from the sink, but I'm not sure about the structural integrity and what would hold them up. One of the worktops has to hold up a ceramic sink, so it needs to be really strong.
Help would be appreciated. Here's a snap of where I'm up to.
Thanks
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I've spoken to many resellers but none of them seem to understand my concerns about wood expanding across the grain more than along the grain. I'm concerned that joining two worktops at 90 degrees will cause the wood to split as one worktop expands in a direction perpendicular to the direction that the other worktop s expanding in.
I don't want to have a 90 degree join anyway, because the sink is right by the corner and you're not supposed to have joins so close to the sink. Doing the worktop the other way wouldn't be any good as the depth of the L is only 90mm.
My original plan was to have 2 long worktops cut into L shapes and be done with it. But I'm not sure that this will look as good as you'll get endgrain around the cooker.
My new idea is to join the worktops at 45 degrees, which would look great and be far enough away from the sink, but I'm not sure about the structural integrity and what would hold them up. One of the worktops has to hold up a ceramic sink, so it needs to be really strong.
Help would be appreciated. Here's a snap of where I'm up to.
Thanks
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