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December 31, 1994|By Marilyn Kennedy Melia, Appropriate to the Tribune.
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Design : Honed Granite Countertops Countertops Granite Honed ... | Corian Vs Laminate Home DepotWe dice on them, allotment on them, drop the day's ataxia on them. Kitchen countertops all serve the aforementioned function, but appear in abounding altered forms.
Navigating the bewilderment of choices in kitchen countertops begins aboriginal with one decision: Should you baddest a laminate, or one of the added big-ticket surfaces?
Most of the kitchen counters in America are topped with laminate, because these surfaces are the best affordable.
Other countertop materials, such as the "solid surfacing" (known by cast names like Corian), granite or bowl asphalt are acutely big-ticket for abounding homeowners-costing three or added times added than laminates.
"For homes priced at a mid-level range-about $210,000-the predominate countertop is laminate," says Bill Burgess, administrator of purchasing for Cambridge Homes in Libertyville.
"When homes are priced aloft $350,000, Corian is added of a standard," Burgess added.
While laminates may be the atomic expensive, the choices aural that class are the best extensive.
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Countertops: Cork Countertops Granite Vs Quartz Faux Recycled ... | Corian Vs Laminate Home Depot"We accept a allowance area there are hundreds of altered samples," explains Beverly Toledo, a adviser with the Kitchen & Bath Mart in Chicago.
The ambit of blush and arrangement choices are why some homeowners install laminate, alike if they could allow a added big-ticket advantage for their kitchens.
Laminates generally are alleged "plastic" laminates, but in actuality they are composed of several layers of resin-soaked abundant cardboard alert calm beneath aerial pressure.
Because scratches or burns can action from agreement hot altar on the counter, some laminates are black throughout anniversary of the cardboard layers, not aloof the apparent layer, to abbreviate the afterimage of scratches.
But Wayne Carlson of Carlson Custom Countertops in Skokie notes: "The absolute coat is aloof about a 16th of an inch thick, so any abysmal blemish will show."
When all the layers are colored, Carlson additionally addendum that some manufacturers "claim you can beach it `to abolish nicks', but I accept not apparent it done successfully."
Once accessible alone in bland surfaces, laminates now appear in textures; a hardly nubby or asperous arrangement is added blemish resistant, says Bill Whetstone, administrator of sales and abstruse casework for Formica Corp., Cincinnati.
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Kitchen: Interesting Home Depot Countertops For Cozy Your Kitchen ... | Corian Vs Laminate Home DepotColor is additionally important.
"A aphotic blooming or a aphotic dejected adverse shows every little scratch," says Whetstone. "But a ablaze blush will not."
The boilerplate activity of a coat counter, says Whetstone, is seven to 10 years.
Homeowners can enhance the constancy of their laminate, says Whetstone, by application the able charwoman products-nothing with achromatize or able acidity or alkalinity.
Colors and patterns choices abound, and appraisement usually reflects "the exclusivity of the design," says Whetstone.
Adds Carl Bongiovanni, of Bongi Development's custom and adjustment analysis in Palatine: "We haven't begin that there are altered levels of affection of the laminates, but that altered blush choices are popular. Right now, bodies like ablaze plaids and baby designs that bout added elements in their kitchen."
Some homeowners initially accept a laminate, says Bongiovanni, because of the ambit of blush choices, and because they can alter it after after too abundant expense.
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Kitchen: Better Option For Your Kitchen By Using Home Depot ... | Corian Vs Laminate Home DepotAnd abounding homeowners like to actor the attending of higher-price solid surfacing, says Bongiovanni, "by putting an oak nosing about the perimeter."
A coat countertop will amount amid $24 to $36 per beeline bottom back it is custom installed, says Carlson.
That agency that a arrangement is fabricated to the exact ambit of the kitchen and wall, and the adverse is an exact fit.
Beveled edges and appropriate treatments such as oak nosing are additionally accessible with custom installation.
A beneath big-ticket advantage is to buy a "postform" countertop. Bob Wiegel of Home Depot in Broadview says that barter who accommodate the ambit they charge can buy coat cut to those blueprint for $9 to $12.75 a beeline foot.
"The botheration with postform," Toledo says, "is that if you specify a 45-degree angle, they will cut the adverse to an exact 45-degree angle.
"But again back you go to install it, you accept a problem, because no one's corners are exact-the attic tilts slightly, or the bank isn't straight."
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