How much support does a standard kitchen-style chipboard worktop 3m x
Reason for asking is that as much free open space as possible under the work top is required.
BTW It is for a hobby room, not the kitchen.
TIA
From experience, if there's no other front-edge stiffening but the other 3 edges rest on battens, at least every 1000mm.
Of course it depends what sort of load you put on top, whether there are any cut-outs etc.
But if you can fix a box-section steel tube (say 50*25mm) screwed at close intervals under the front edge, this is *very much* better.
I did that very job on Thursday in an office. 2.6m length & a 1.6m length in an 'L' shape. I used 38mm x 63mm studwork timber fixed to the walls to support the back edge & four of these adjustable table legs
Solid as a rock, passed the FB test with flying colours.
FB? Fat Bastard?
(if so, that's no way to talk about your mother)
Correct.
Its me! Although the manager at the place where I did the job made me look slim :-)
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