I'm in the process of refitting the kitchen, having united the previous kitchen and dining room.
I removed the old granite work surfaces and kept them, rather than throwing them in the skip. I thought they'd be worth something.
Looking on ebay, I see loads of people with a similar idea. I get them impression looking at the prices that there's not much of a market for used work tops.
Am I totally wrong. Anyone else out there tried to shift unwanted granite/marble ?
Thanks
It can (and has been) re-used for smaller projects by cutting down with an angle grinder.
But I think such people tend to do that when they happen on some free granite. Once you start paying for it, it becomes a less attractive idea.
DIY headstone?
I suspect the transport might be the problem. How thick are they - could they be used for something else? Cutting is also hard.
Theo
Dunno, but I have a LOT of marble sheet if anyone wants it.
The people I got it from were going to put it in a skip
Monumental masons?
Cheers
My granite works tops are about 20mm. My scrap marble sheet s a bit less
- maybe 12mm-15mm
I picked it all up in a Defender from the City years ago
It wiull ciut with diamond saws and rout with diamond bits but its a bit specialised to find those - need water as well
No, but working granite is beyond any normal builder or kitchen fitter, let alone diy person. Cutting it is very difficult and often dangerous. Cutting accurately almost impossible. Polishing the cut edge requires industrial equipment, abrasives and water cooling.
TW
There was a program on daytime tv recently where someone was salvaging tat from recycling centres, and doing it up and selling on.
On One program bits of broken granite worktop were turned into wall lights and sold for £85 each.
Not so sure that a diamond saw won't cut it well enough.
Agree wbout polishing though. Needs to be honed with more dianmond edged stuff
But boy, it lasts...
I'd imagine the issue is that it is almost certainly cut to size/the layout of your kitchen.
Unless you can find someone who has a similar layout or can cut bits out to make a new layout, then I can't see it selling- at least not as kitchen worktop.
Other uses may be, smaller sections to make small granite surfaces (cutting areas etc). I knew someone who broke up a number of marble wash stand tops (the old ones) and used the bits to lay a 'crazy paved' marble floor. It looked very nice.
If you have enough of it, it could be interesting in a bathroom - as a wall or floor surface not just as a worktop.
Theo
In most of the TV programs showing junk recycled into expensive junk by spending £100s to do so they seem to find the mugs in those unique retail outlet willing to buy it. The type of shops that I guess that all of us would avoid.
I have enough of it. Do you want it? I dont.
Not only that but they spend hours recycling it as if labour had no value
(I mean actual manual work. Labour with a capital L of course has no value).
Just hold the line while I build a suitable bathroom. I might be some time...
Theo
When I first saw this thread I read it as Used Granny, but never mind. If you could find some gullible audiophiles with turntables they could use it to mount their 200 quid record decks on. Brian
A join between two slabs of worktop for instance. Getting the two edges to meet would be impossible to do with a grinder and the best you could hope for would be a neat run of a good coloured filler. When it comes from the yard it has been cut on cnc machines to make a join that doesn't need any filler because the edges meet perfectly.
TW
Well no, it doesn't. They still use filler
I don't have the patience for this kind of pythonesque argument. I used to be in the trade. I know what I am talking about. TW
I had a granite woprktop installed. They glued it together with epoxy and isued a filler to make it neat, because the epoxy is a finite width and has to be a finite width
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