Worktop Joint

[John]

My Mum has just purchased her Council house and everything that's been OK for the last 20 years "needs changing" i.e, bathroom, kitchen, fence, patio etc and Yours Truly has got the contract!! My question relates to the kitchen worktop. It will only have one join as it will be 'L' shaped and I don't want to go to the expense of hiring a jig etc., or a joiner for that matter, for one joint. I am sure I have seen mention on here of worktops with pre machined male and female joints or am I dreaming it? If anybody can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.

Many thanks

John

[Tony Bryer]

Our local Homebase sells them

[G&M]

Any good woodworking place will cut the surface and put butt and scribe joints in for about £55. Use the coloured worksurface glue from Screwfix for a good result.

[Andrew]

Homebase or B&Q will do it in store for you.

Cheers

[kitchenman]

This is OK IF the corner is square

You could get it done professionally for around £60 if you are in Essex

[dg]

In which case you would adjust the position of the units and worktop, and not cut an out of square joint.

dg

[Ed Sirett]

This is a matter of degree (ahem 'scuse the pun). If the walls are out so that you have more than a couple of cm gap at the back then you are going to have a lot of trouble. In my experience that sort of misalignment is normal.

[momojo]

You can buy a metal joint strip that is formed to take both faces, it is fixed to both worktops, does the job for about 5 pounds, fit it yourself.

[kitchenman]

That's what I call a salmonella joint, if you want it to look right you gotta pay for it

[tony sayer]

In article , kitchenman writes

Recently doing up my mum and dad's old house and in the kitchen I remember some of the dodgy practises that went on there. By rights we should have all been long deceased with all manner of illnesses but for some strange reason I can hardly ever remember anyone having a gut upset and of course allergies were unheard of...

Perhaps our excessive cleanliness?. After all you should seen how my old grannie lived, and she waited till she was 89 before she departed this life, and I never recall her being ill......

[kitchenman]

It was a client who first coined that phrase.

She was/is a nursing sister at a local hospital

[Andy Dingley]

We should take hygiene advice from British hospitals ?

[tony sayer]

In article , Andy Dingley writes

Probably when she *was* there;!......