kitchen benchtop help needed - no joins!

jodge · Feb 01, 2010 5:08 pm

How about having honed (or polished) concrete?

This is an NZ website I just pulled up, but gives you a bit of an idea. . . http://www.customconcrete.co.nz/benchtops.html

onc_artisan · Feb 01, 2010 5:52 pm

There are a few manufacturers here in Oz.
Some advertise and others don't :wink:

Most of the following photos are of W/I/progress so the finish is yet to be completed :wink:

Also the scope of the works can vary as some clients want a particular finish IE: 'off form'
'Honed' 'polished' 'agricultural' etc so I have slotted a few that met or exceeded the clients 'wants'

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jodge · Feb 01, 2010 5:58 pm

I can't belive that the top pic's not granite onc!!!

What you could do I suppose, is have the island bench in honed concrete or corian, then have your other benchtops in a contrasting stone???

I've seen some lovely pictures of kitchens where they have contrasting stone benchtops on the island and wall-benches.

onc_artisan · Feb 01, 2010 6:06 pm

The top one is resin filled stone only...
But yes mixed media is something that needs a careful eye with the mixes...
So long as the hue is the same, I haven't noticed an issue.
Also, the rules have been broken now, so anything goes.

jodge · Feb 01, 2010 6:19 pm

Hey onc. . . most of those pictures seem to be concrete-coloured, do you have any with coloured concrete? Can you do a white-coloured concrete???

Michelle · Feb 01, 2010 6:26 pm

I love it Onc!!!!

onc_artisan · Feb 01, 2010 6:33 pm

Yeh, just need to find them :th:

onc_artisan · Feb 01, 2010 6:41 pm

The 4th one down ^^^ is a white vanity one of 2 for the house :wink:

Though it will never get to be bright white.
And if your intention was to grind them then you would need white cement
white stone and white sand or the grinding of the non-white stones and sand would
'bleed' into the 'white' :th:

clear as mud??? :lol:

zeke · Feb 01, 2010 8:10 pm

Re Granite transformations and joins:

In about 2000, we upgraded the benchtops and splashbacks in our previous house with this mob. Overall, it was excellent....one of the best upgrades we ever did.

The joins (4 at the corners of each of the sink and cooktop) were simply a non-issue. You couldn't see them unless you looked specifically for them. Like most things, though, it depends on the tradies doing the job. :wink:

This is a corner of the 30 yo kitchen.

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This is a join at the cooktop edge.

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Here, I've used a severe closeup with lighting to make the join as bad as it could possibly be.....still pretty acceptable IMHO.

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I reckon similar results should be achievable wherever a join is absolutely necessary in any engineered stone product, which are generally available in finite lengths.

Cheers
zeke