Where To Buy Table Legs

Fire_Fox

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Appreciate this is not what you asked but ... do consider how a table of that weight is going to be moved to clean the room. I am imagining flooring being gouged and/ or hernias and 'slipped' discs.

JimmyChanga

Another vote for Ikea

kentishchap

Thanks

I was hoping for something around 3 metre X 1.2 metre.

I have looked at Ikea, they work great for light wood but will not be strong enough for stone.

knightstyle

A long time ago we bought a piece of granite and just put it on top of our old but solid pine table to make an island in the kitchen, looked great and lasted many years.
I would be wary of using new Ikea type legs as they need something to fix to.

-taff

If the table is not going aywhere, what about steel? Go and see a metal fabricator or welder and see what they can do.

Andy_L

kentishchap wrote: »

However I want to put a really heavy top on (i.e. stone) which will be very heavy (i.e. 100kg).

kentishchap wrote: »

I was hoping for something around 3 metre X 1.2 metre.

That weight is optimistic for that size of table. Assuming I've got my sums right that's only about a 10mm thick slab of granite which will need some careful supporting to stop it breaking

Jackmydad

Andy_L wrote: »

That weight is optimistic for that size of table. Assuming I've got my sums right that's only about a 10mm thick slab of granite which will need some careful supporting to stop it breaking

That's what I get as well, or at least I get near enough half a tonne for a 50mm thick granite top.
You don't want that sitting on your lap.
As you say it'll need really strong legs and a framework and joints strong enough to stop the whole thing "racking"

As someone else said above either a steel frame, or wooden legs and frame with big enough timbers and joints to hold that weight, and what might be put on it.

kentishchap

Thanks.

Ok, so the consensus is that around 100kg is very optimistic? I was not sure and put the dimensions onto an online granite/quartz seller and got the approx weight. It appears the depth commonly sold is 20mm or 30mm. I will do some more research on this, if the weight is a lot over 150kg then I think I should abandon the whole idea, or alternatively use a good wood as the top, as well as the danger of the weight it is also when/if I have to put the table.

-taff

https://www.vintageindustrialmetal.co.uk/steel-table-bases/ for eg.
Saw one on a 100k house type programme, where they had a really long piece of polished concret which was supported by a steel girder that had been set into a v shape, with anoher girder running along the top. Looked nice, I wanted one...

Working_Mum

Another vote for your local steel fabricator - I have done all sorts of interesting stuff over the years and my local guy is amazing - helped with design ideas (good at telling me when they're rubbish!!) and didn't costs the earth at all.

I have powder-coated table legs to my spec for my garden - my steel fabricator chap put me touch - there is often a lovely network of practical types!

Good luck!