Plywood can be used in the construction of a kitchen countertop.
Plywood subtop granite.
Forum responses cabinet and millwork installation forum from contributor k.
A subtop is a supporting layer used under a freestanding table or peninsula counter top that uses a heavy top material like marble granite or aggregate material to provide a base to attach your table legs or table base or bases to.
There is no plywood under the granite.
Now this assumes a full depth granite 3 cm or 1 1 4 thick is used.
All this is a lot easier than trying to make small left right front back adjustments in the location of the precut sink hole or drillings if the dryfit tops are a hair off.
Sounds a little sketchy to me that they didn t use subtop.
Plywood may be used as a sheathing in the construction of a home but the use of plywood in smaller projects also makes sense.
This subtop is usually a piece of plywood or metal that ideally would have a smaller overall dimension than your top usually glued to the bottom using a.
With this scenario plywood is cut to fit the countertop layout and screwed to the cabinets prior to the stone tops being installed.
If a thinner granite is being used 2 cm or 3 4 a plywood subtop will need to be installed.
It should be screwed down to the cabinets sanded side down where there is an overhang sanded side up on conventional cabinet applications where.
Installing your own countertops is an ambitious project but you can achieve it by planning and measuring carefully.
Plywood should be used as the subtop in lieu of oxb particle board masonite etc.
The design calls for freestanding legs to support the overhang.
The top of the legs will be about 3 inward from the outside edge.
You can use a variety of types of products as finish materials when building counter tops ranging from granite slabs and tiles to butcher block wood ceramic tile and marble tiles.
Under a thin granite slab top a plywood subtop is needed for support and to attach legs.
You need to have a subtop to glue the granite to.
The type and thickness of plywood you use depend on the weight and type of the finish material.
Question we have a kitchen cabinet job with a peninsula and a 3 4 granite slab overhang of 12.
Granite countertops are a beautiful addition to any kitchen or bathroom.
I then use the dry fit countertops as a guide to drill out the plywood subtop.
