Is it possible to cut laminate width and fit edging strip?

Rich1234a

Hi,

I wonder if anyone can offer me any advice please. I finally came up with a kitchen design that I'm happy with. It has a peninsula which is about 710mm in width (in order to house a stowaway for my free standing washing machine).

A designer said it would work well in real wood worktops as they do a standard 720mm width. I'm not really keen on looking after real wood as I don't have much spare time and therefore would prefer laminate.

I've discussed this with a few kitchen designers / suppliers and some of them suck their teeth ... saying they don't recommend making a long cut in laminate and then edging it successfully.... it would be very difficult.

My question is, is this seen as a big no no, is it relatively a normal / straightforward thing to do, or would you not recommend it?

Thanks in advance,
Rich

Norman_Castle

Ask a shopfitter.

Head_The_Ball

A competent kitchen fitter should be able to trim laminate length-ways or width-ways and fit an edging strip.

It is a straightforward job for a skilled fitter. I'd avoid a company that is reluctant to do it as it suggests to me a lack of skills and experience.

We had a new kitchen fitted last year with a peninsula breakfast bar that was not only cut down to reduce the width but one end was cut into a rounded shape.

Edging strips were glued to the cut edges. Colorfill was used to disguise the join.

We chose Prima blue magma crystal laminate.

We are very pleased with the result.

You will lose any rounded top edge on cut edges. Our laminate was cut so that the original rounded edge faced the door and the cut edge was on the less visible side.

I'll post some pictures later.

Pictures now added below.

Rich1234a

Thanks for the replies.

Thanks for your detailed reply Head the Ball, sounds great and puts my mind at rest that a skilled fitter can do this. I get the impression some designers / sales people for whatever reason prefer the most straightforward solution.

magn8p

Please share the pics. We are planning to change our worktops and the one you suggested looks great for the price.

Head_The_Ball wrote: »

A competent kitchen fitter should be able to trim laminate length-ways or width-ways and fit an edging strip.

It is a straightforward job for a skilled fitter. I'd avoid a company that is reluctant to do it as it suggests to me a lack of skills and experience.

We had a new kitchen fitted last year with a peninsula breakfast bar that was not only cut down to reduce the width but one end was cut into a rounded shape.

Edging strips were glued to the cut edges. Colorfill was used to disguise the join.

We chose Prima blue magma crystal laminate.

We are very pleased with the result.

You will lose any rounded top edge on cut edges. Our laminate was cut so that the original rounded edge faced the door and the cut edge was on the less visible side.

I'll post some pictures later.

no1catman

I think laminates come in different widths, one for kitchens, and a narrower one for bathrooms.
Though maybe the bathroom one is too narrow!

It'll be down to your 'fitter' to cut, Laminate suppliers afaik only supply in set sizes.
In my kitchen, I have to ends that have edging strips one - one has a curved corner.

Head_The_Ball

Here are some pictures of our kitchen. If you look closely (especially pictures 6 and 7) you might be able to see that the left side of the breakfast bar has the factory rounded top edge. The other side and the rounded front have been cut and lost that rounded edge but frankly it makes little or no difference.

Click on a thumbnail for a bigger picture and then click on that again for the full size picture.

The breakfast bar is supported full width towards the rear and only partially supported towards the front.

Rich1234a

Looks great! Many thanks for the reply and your photos!

Ruski

You get a better 'look' if you use square edged worktops in the first place as you don't get the bullnose to square transition: have a look at a couple of the pics of a kitchen I'm fitting at the moment....

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZTyW30fdVKv7woTe2




HTH

Russ

ryder72

Why not order your laminate worktop to the right size with factory applied edging.

Head_The_Ball

ryder72 wrote: »

Why not order your laminate worktop to the right size with factory applied edging.

At a guess, that would probably be prohibitively expensive, even if the manufacturer agreed to do it.

It would presumably require rejigging the production lines.