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On 5/24/2016 7:44 AM, Keine Krauseschei�e wrote:
On Mon, 23 May 2016 19:55:02 -0400, wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2016 19:27:24 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2016 11:27:02 -0400, wrote: Wayne is on the move again. He should be in Savanna by supper time. Passing north of Jekyll Island right now heading "outside". === Sorry but you're just not keeping up. We ducked back inside late in the afternoon to position ourselves for tomorrow. We're having a problem with the hydraulic stabilizer system so I'm going to stop at a shipyard south of Savanna to see if they can work on it. We can run outside without stabilizers when it's calm like today but not so much when the wind's blowing. As an FYI, the Georgia coast, ICW and barrier islands are incredibly scenic. I have been on the road. I was on (Yuk) Del Prado today, going up to buy an oven for my country kitchen project on the lanai and I also got lucky and scored a piece of granite to replace that nasty quartz crap I put on the new bar top. Last time I looked you were just starting to make the turn to go inside north of St Catherines but I see you are up at the mouth of Kilkenny creek now. No BBQ for you I guess ;-) Gosh, what a propitious moment. We have Wilsonart Solid Surface Veneer in our kitchen that is past the 25 year mark and has a couple cracks. Thinking of replacing it. Consumer Reports seems to like the quartz over the granite for countertops. Why are you so down on quartz? -- Ban Krausescheiße-spouting narcissists...not guns! We chose granite for our new house. It's prettier. Although seams in quartz will be less noticable. Quartz has a lot of resin in it so I'd be wary of setting a hot pan off the stove on it. Side benefit to granite is you can thaw a 1" steak on it in about 30 minutes. Quartz supposedly doesn't need to be sealed, although I never sealed the granite in our old house and it looked like new the day we moved out. Our transitory home(RV)has Corion and it scratches easily. |
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On Tue, 24 May 2016 07:44:08 -0400, Keine Krausescheiße
wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2016 19:55:02 -0400, wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2016 19:27:24 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2016 11:27:02 -0400, wrote: Wayne is on the move again. He should be in Savanna by supper time. Passing north of Jekyll Island right now heading "outside". === Sorry but you're just not keeping up. We ducked back inside late in the afternoon to position ourselves for tomorrow. We're having a problem with the hydraulic stabilizer system so I'm going to stop at a shipyard south of Savanna to see if they can work on it. We can run outside without stabilizers when it's calm like today but not so much when the wind's blowing. As an FYI, the Georgia coast, ICW and barrier islands are incredibly scenic. I have been on the road. I was on (Yuk) Del Prado today, going up to buy an oven for my country kitchen project on the lanai and I also got lucky and scored a piece of granite to replace that nasty quartz crap I put on the new bar top. Last time I looked you were just starting to make the turn to go inside north of St Catherines but I see you are up at the mouth of Kilkenny creek now. No BBQ for you I guess ;-) Gosh, what a propitious moment. We have Wilsonart Solid Surface Veneer in our kitchen that is past the 25 year mark and has a couple cracks. Thinking of replacing it. Consumer Reports seems to like the quartz over the granite for countertops. Why are you so down on quartz? It is just miserable to work, compared to granite. I assume the pros have a trick I can't find. I believe they actually seal it instead of polishing it. When I use the diamond pads I got for granite, I can get a smooth dull finish but it never actually polishes out. I have a bunch of quartz and I am not sure what I am going to use it for. I did manage to find enough with the appropriate factory finished edges for my country kitchen. There are polishes you can put on it to bring back the shine but it doesn't last long. Bear in mind this is outside. My granite bar top is doing great after a few years. |
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On Tue, 24 May 2016 09:45:14 -0400, Justan Olphart
wrote: On 5/24/2016 7:44 AM, Keine Krauseschei?e wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2016 19:55:02 -0400, wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2016 19:27:24 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2016 11:27:02 -0400, wrote: Wayne is on the move again. He should be in Savanna by supper time. Passing north of Jekyll Island right now heading "outside". === Sorry but you're just not keeping up. We ducked back inside late in the afternoon to position ourselves for tomorrow. We're having a problem with the hydraulic stabilizer system so I'm going to stop at a shipyard south of Savanna to see if they can work on it. We can run outside without stabilizers when it's calm like today but not so much when the wind's blowing. As an FYI, the Georgia coast, ICW and barrier islands are incredibly scenic. I have been on the road. I was on (Yuk) Del Prado today, going up to buy an oven for my country kitchen project on the lanai and I also got lucky and scored a piece of granite to replace that nasty quartz crap I put on the new bar top. Last time I looked you were just starting to make the turn to go inside north of St Catherines but I see you are up at the mouth of Kilkenny creek now. No BBQ for you I guess ;-) Gosh, what a propitious moment. We have Wilsonart Solid Surface Veneer in our kitchen that is past the 25 year mark and has a couple cracks. Thinking of replacing it. Consumer Reports seems to like the quartz over the granite for countertops. Why are you so down on quartz? -- Ban Krausescheiße-spouting narcissists...not guns! We chose granite for our new house. It's prettier. Although seams in quartz will be less noticable. Quartz has a lot of resin in it so I'd be wary of setting a hot pan off the stove on it. Side benefit to granite is you can thaw a 1" steak on it in about 30 minutes. Quartz supposedly doesn't need to be sealed, although I never sealed the granite in our old house and it looked like new the day we moved out. Our transitory home(RV)has Corion and it scratches easily. "Quartz" is really just an aggregate suspended in a resin base with some color added. When you cut it, you smell a "fiberglass" type plastic smell. I got about 30' of material, 25" wide when they remodeled the club house. It had an additional 6" trough on the back side that was just glued on. It is pretty tough glue. It was good that they finished the edge on that side tho. For a DIY guy like me, granite is a lot easier material to work with. You just need to buy some diamond tools ... but I like tools. |
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On Tue, 24 May 2016 11:42:32 -0400, wrote:
On Tue, 24 May 2016 07:44:08 -0400, Keine Krausescheiße wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2016 19:55:02 -0400, wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2016 19:27:24 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2016 11:27:02 -0400, wrote: Wayne is on the move again. He should be in Savanna by supper time. Passing north of Jekyll Island right now heading "outside". === Sorry but you're just not keeping up. We ducked back inside late in the afternoon to position ourselves for tomorrow. We're having a problem with the hydraulic stabilizer system so I'm going to stop at a shipyard south of Savanna to see if they can work on it. We can run outside without stabilizers when it's calm like today but not so much when the wind's blowing. As an FYI, the Georgia coast, ICW and barrier islands are incredibly scenic. I have been on the road. I was on (Yuk) Del Prado today, going up to buy an oven for my country kitchen project on the lanai and I also got lucky and scored a piece of granite to replace that nasty quartz crap I put on the new bar top. Last time I looked you were just starting to make the turn to go inside north of St Catherines but I see you are up at the mouth of Kilkenny creek now. No BBQ for you I guess ;-) Gosh, what a propitious moment. We have Wilsonart Solid Surface Veneer in our kitchen that is past the 25 year mark and has a couple cracks. Thinking of replacing it. Consumer Reports seems to like the quartz over the granite for countertops. Why are you so down on quartz? It is just miserable to work, compared to granite. I assume the pros have a trick I can't find. I believe they actually seal it instead of polishing it. When I use the diamond pads I got for granite, I can get a smooth dull finish but it never actually polishes out. I have a bunch of quartz and I am not sure what I am going to use it for. I did manage to find enough with the appropriate factory finished edges for my country kitchen. There are polishes you can put on it to bring back the shine but it doesn't last long. Bear in mind this is outside. My granite bar top is doing great after a few years. Outside. OK, maybe that has something to do with it. We've not started looking yet. -- Ban Krausescheiße-spouting narcissists...not guns! |
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On Tue, 24 May 2016 14:37:53 -0400, Keine Krausescheiße
wrote: On Tue, 24 May 2016 11:42:32 -0400, wrote: On Tue, 24 May 2016 07:44:08 -0400, Keine Krausescheiße wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2016 19:55:02 -0400, wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2016 19:27:24 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2016 11:27:02 -0400, wrote: Wayne is on the move again. He should be in Savanna by supper time. Passing north of Jekyll Island right now heading "outside". === Sorry but you're just not keeping up. We ducked back inside late in the afternoon to position ourselves for tomorrow. We're having a problem with the hydraulic stabilizer system so I'm going to stop at a shipyard south of Savanna to see if they can work on it. We can run outside without stabilizers when it's calm like today but not so much when the wind's blowing. As an FYI, the Georgia coast, ICW and barrier islands are incredibly scenic. I have been on the road. I was on (Yuk) Del Prado today, going up to buy an oven for my country kitchen project on the lanai and I also got lucky and scored a piece of granite to replace that nasty quartz crap I put on the new bar top. Last time I looked you were just starting to make the turn to go inside north of St Catherines but I see you are up at the mouth of Kilkenny creek now. No BBQ for you I guess ;-) Gosh, what a propitious moment. We have Wilsonart Solid Surface Veneer in our kitchen that is past the 25 year mark and has a couple cracks. Thinking of replacing it. Consumer Reports seems to like the quartz over the granite for countertops. Why are you so down on quartz? It is just miserable to work, compared to granite. I assume the pros have a trick I can't find. I believe they actually seal it instead of polishing it. When I use the diamond pads I got for granite, I can get a smooth dull finish but it never actually polishes out. I have a bunch of quartz and I am not sure what I am going to use it for. I did manage to find enough with the appropriate factory finished edges for my country kitchen. There are polishes you can put on it to bring back the shine but it doesn't last long. Bear in mind this is outside. My granite bar top is doing great after a few years. Outside. OK, maybe that has something to do with it. We've not started looking yet. The quartz that has the factory finish seems to be doing OK outside. it is just the stuff that has the liquid polishes on it I see in the "how to" web sites that will not last. I have lost track of our cabinet buddy so I really do not have anyone to ask how the pros do it. I have plenty of material to test with so I will do some torture testing and see what holds up best to heat, scratches or anything else you guys come up with. I love science projects. I know sharpie pen comes right off of all of them because that is what I am using for layout. A little lacquer thinner wipes it right off. I just roughed in my piece of granite This is what I got, not really square and some cuts on the bottom edge http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Granite%20from%20boneyard.jpg Here I have cut off the bad edge, squared it up and roughed in the top edge and corner radii. http://gfretwell.com/ftp/granite%20roughed%20in.jpg I am about done with the 100 grit pad so tomorrow I will start the polishing. That is the rewarding part because you actually see it starting to shine up. |
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On Tue, 24 May 2016 15:49:40 -0400, wrote:
On Tue, 24 May 2016 14:37:53 -0400, Keine Krausescheiße wrote: On Tue, 24 May 2016 11:42:32 -0400, wrote: On Tue, 24 May 2016 07:44:08 -0400, Keine Krausescheiße wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2016 19:55:02 -0400, wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2016 19:27:24 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2016 11:27:02 -0400, wrote: Wayne is on the move again. He should be in Savanna by supper time. Passing north of Jekyll Island right now heading "outside". === Sorry but you're just not keeping up. We ducked back inside late in the afternoon to position ourselves for tomorrow. We're having a problem with the hydraulic stabilizer system so I'm going to stop at a shipyard south of Savanna to see if they can work on it. We can run outside without stabilizers when it's calm like today but not so much when the wind's blowing. As an FYI, the Georgia coast, ICW and barrier islands are incredibly scenic. I have been on the road. I was on (Yuk) Del Prado today, going up to buy an oven for my country kitchen project on the lanai and I also got lucky and scored a piece of granite to replace that nasty quartz crap I put on the new bar top. Last time I looked you were just starting to make the turn to go inside north of St Catherines but I see you are up at the mouth of Kilkenny creek now. No BBQ for you I guess ;-) Gosh, what a propitious moment. We have Wilsonart Solid Surface Veneer in our kitchen that is past the 25 year mark and has a couple cracks. Thinking of replacing it. Consumer Reports seems to like the quartz over the granite for countertops. Why are you so down on quartz? It is just miserable to work, compared to granite. I assume the pros have a trick I can't find. I believe they actually seal it instead of polishing it. When I use the diamond pads I got for granite, I can get a smooth dull finish but it never actually polishes out. I have a bunch of quartz and I am not sure what I am going to use it for. I did manage to find enough with the appropriate factory finished edges for my country kitchen. There are polishes you can put on it to bring back the shine but it doesn't last long. Bear in mind this is outside. My granite bar top is doing great after a few years. Outside. OK, maybe that has something to do with it. We've not started looking yet. The quartz that has the factory finish seems to be doing OK outside. it is just the stuff that has the liquid polishes on it I see in the "how to" web sites that will not last. I have lost track of our cabinet buddy so I really do not have anyone to ask how the pros do it. I have plenty of material to test with so I will do some torture testing and see what holds up best to heat, scratches or anything else you guys come up with. I love science projects. I know sharpie pen comes right off of all of them because that is what I am using for layout. A little lacquer thinner wipes it right off. I just roughed in my piece of granite This is what I got, not really square and some cuts on the bottom edge http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Granite%20from%20boneyard.jpg Here I have cut off the bad edge, squared it up and roughed in the top edge and corner radii. http://gfretwell.com/ftp/granite%20roughed%20in.jpg I am about done with the 100 grit pad so tomorrow I will start the polishing. That is the rewarding part because you actually see it starting to shine up. I wouldn't even think about trying to do it myself. I have two sink cutouts and a countertop Jennaire cutout to worry about. Also, I'd want the edges rounded. No way I'd be tempted to mess with it. -- Ban Krausescheiße-spouting narcissists...not guns! |
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On Tue, 24 May 2016 16:29:39 -0400, Keine Krausescheiße
wrote: do it myself. I have two sink cutouts and a countertop Jennaire cutout to worry about. Als On Tue, 24 May 2016 15:49:40 -0400, wrote: I wouldn't even think about trying to o, I'd want the edges rounded. No way I'd be tempted to mess with it. The stuff cuts pretty easily with a diamond wheel in a circular saw and you can round off the corners with a cup wheel in a side grinder. It is all in how much patience you have and how much attention you have to detail. I got wild with one side on this piece so I will have more work to do with the 100 pad because I have some rougher than necessary spots. It is sort of like welding. I really should have practiced a little before I started. You need to have the touch when you are doing this with hand held tools. The rest actually came out pretty nice. I would not have started on this but someone gave me a bunch of granite and I decided I would learn how to do it. It is actually pretty rewarding when a piece comes out nice and the price is right. EuroAsia in Miami has all of the diamond wheels and pads if you have the tools to spin them up. I have about 2 hours in that "rough" and it will be about 2 more hours to finish it up and set it. You pay about $20-25 an hour for the finishing and installation over the cost of the material, which is actually pretty cheap. |
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On Tue, 24 May 2016 16:48:02 -0400, wrote:
On Tue, 24 May 2016 16:29:39 -0400, Keine Krausescheiße wrote: do it myself. I have two sink cutouts and a countertop Jennaire cutout to worry about. Als On Tue, 24 May 2016 15:49:40 -0400, wrote: I wouldn't even think about trying to o, I'd want the edges rounded. No way I'd be tempted to mess with it. The stuff cuts pretty easily with a diamond wheel in a circular saw and you can round off the corners with a cup wheel in a side grinder. It is all in how much patience you have and how much attention you have to detail. I got wild with one side on this piece so I will have more work to do with the 100 pad because I have some rougher than necessary spots. It is sort of like welding. I really should have practiced a little before I started. You need to have the touch when you are doing this with hand held tools. The rest actually came out pretty nice. I would not have started on this but someone gave me a bunch of granite and I decided I would learn how to do it. It is actually pretty rewarding when a piece comes out nice and the price is right. EuroAsia in Miami has all of the diamond wheels and pads if you have the tools to spin them up. I have about 2 hours in that "rough" and it will be about 2 more hours to finish it up and set it. You pay about $20-25 an hour for the finishing and installation over the cost of the material, which is actually pretty cheap. Well, maybe it's just my turn to help the economy and job market! If someone gave me the stuff, that would be a different story. But I don't see that happening. Oh well. -- Ban Krausescheiße-spouting narcissists...not guns! |
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On Tue, 24 May 2016 17:18:47 -0400, Keine Krausescheiße
wrote: Well, maybe it's just my turn to help the economy and job market! If someone gave me the stuff, that would be a different story. But I don't see that happening. Oh well. It helps when you know construction people. The first batch I got came from a "Chinese drywall" house. They broke a piece trying to take the kitchen apart and decided they could never match it up so they got rid of all of it. The pieces with cut outs in them can be pretty fragile. Since I didn't want the cut out anyway, it was fine with me. That was where my other bar top came from. |
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