How Much Is Corian Countertop
June 14, 1996|By Gene Austin, Knight-Ridder/Tribune.
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2017 Corian Countertops Cost | Corian Price Per Square Foot | How Much Is Corian CountertopWoodworkers attractive for a handsome and abnormal actual for baby projects should accede Corian, the marble-like artefact of Du Pont Co. that is best-known for its use in flush countertops and bath surfaces.
Despite its backbone and acute density, Corian can be cut and shaped with some woodworking tools. Carbide-tipped blades and bits, accessible for best ability saws, routers and drills, are best for abstraction Corian.
Since Corian is almost expensive, its best uses from a woodworker's standpoint are for baby adorning altar and acme for baby tables. Among the projects that are abnormally adapted to Corian are clocks with battery-powered movements, account frames, board sets and lamps. Corian can additionally be carved or angry on a lathe. Du Pont, in advertisements announcement Corian for woodworking, shows a bonsai timberline fabricated from granite-patterned Corian.
Du Pont has appear a 12-page booklet, "How to Assignment With Corian in the Home Workshop," that is accessible chargeless by calling 800-426-7426.
["1241.6"]Woodworking magazines additionally more affection accessories on how to assignment with Corian and agnate "solid surfacing materials" that accept become accepted with home decorators. For example, an commodity on authoritative a account anatomy from Corian appeared in the November-December affair of Today's Woodworker. Fine Woodworking annual had an all-embracing commodity on alive with constructed countertop abstracts in its September-October affair in 1994.
Corian was alien in the aboriginal '70s as the aboriginal of several solid-surfacing abstracts that accept the aforementioned arrangement and blush through their absolute thickness. Wear will not change the blush of the abstracts and they cannot delaminate. Because they are nonporous, solid surfacing abstracts abide stains and are accessible to clean. Scratches can be removed by sandpapering and buffing.
Although Du Pont, to my knowledge, is the alone architect actively announcement its solid-surfacing actual for woodworking, added brands can additionally be used. Among those brands are Avonite, Gibraltar, Surell, and Fountainhead. The abstracts are about fabricated in thicknesses of 1/4 inch, 1/2 inch and 3/4 inch.
Unfortunately, because of assurance restrictions and the aerial amount of stocking solid-surfacing materials, it usually isn't accessible to aloof airing into a home centermost or lumberyard and buy baby quantities of them. Some dealers will special-order Corian or added solid-surfacing materials, but usually alone in ample sheets. For example, one home centermost priced a 30- by 98-inch area of 1/4-inch Corian at $240 to $300, depending on the color.
["388"]Small quantities of Corian are accessible by mail from Art Specialties International, Buffalo, N.Y. A chargeless blueprint with accessible sizes and colors can be acquired by calling 800-724-4008. The Art Specialties amount for a foot-square allotment of Corian, 1/2-inch thick, is $17 to $27, depending on the color.
Corian is best cut with a powered table saw, radial-arm saw or carriageable annular saw. For bland cuts that will crave a minimum of sanding, Du Pont recommends a carbide-tipped brand with six teeth per inch of diameter. Hand saws can additionally be acclimated for cutting, but edges will be rougher and animate teeth will bound get dull.
Curved cuts can be fabricated application a bandsaw, scrollsaw or carriageable jigsaw.
A router with carbide-tipped $.25 is additionally an accomplished apparatus for authoritative either beeline or arced cuts in Corian, or for abstraction edges. Techniques for application routers are discussed at some breadth in "How to Assignment With Corian."
["2514.24"]Safety glasses or a face affectation should consistently be beat back acid Corian.
Corian is sanded abundant like wood, and around any cut will crave some sanding to abolish acid marks. Ability sanders able with silicone-carbide sandpaper assignment best. Corian dust is said to be non-toxic, but a dust affectation should be beat back sanding.
Corian can be accustomed a matte, semigloss or high-gloss finish. The matte accomplishment is easiest to accomplish and advance and should be acclimated for projects that will get abundant use, according to Du Pont. Instructions for accepting all of the finishes are in the booklet.
Parts of a Corian activity are about attached calm with adhesive. Adhesives that assignment able-bodied accommodate cyanoacrylate or "super" glue, adhesive glues, and silicone adhesive-sealants.
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