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in this video I'm going step by step on
how I built these beautiful laminate
countertops for about 300 bucks using
particle board and Formica 1080 FX
laminate and some og edging one of the
very first things I did to make my life
easier as I had the big-box retail store
with me a piece of particle board in the
24 inch wide pieces now that two pieces
actually came out to be 24 inches wide I
used as the main countertop and then
there were other two pieces I'm just
ripping those in half and I'm screwing
those together to form a inch and a half
thickness of countertop if that makes
any sense because each piece is 3/4 inch
now traditionally a lot of people will
make the countertops the 3/4 inch piece
and then just glue or whatever screw a
trim piece around the edge to double it
up to make it to one 1/2 inch thickness
but to me I had this particle board here
I just like the solidness of making the
whole thing 1 1/2 inch thick as much as
I can so I went ahead and did that this
video clip you can see I am screwing the
two pieces together here and I'm not
using any glue frankly because I did not
have glue on hand but some wood glue
between these would definitely help and
be nice but the screws also by
themselves hold just fine started by
screwing through the bottom piece into
the top piece just two screws just to
hold it on there
and then I went from the top to the
bottom and screwed it down that way I
don't have any screws poking out at the
top of this piece in case they go in too
deep or something which these ones do
kind of poke out because they're
inch-and-a-half on the on the money it
also use inch and 3/8 screws you could
find where in possibly inch and 1/4 but
those don't really get a lot a lot of
meat in there
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in this awkward kitchen layout I built
these countertops to maximize the
counter space using what I could in this
situation it took some angles to make a
walkway a path to get through and also
maximize the counter space so that took
a little bit of figuring out to get
these angles right and of course your
situation will vary whatever size you
need to make your countertops however
you want to do it
that's all up to you
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it's a really good idea to cut out the
kitchen sink opening before you laminate
the countertops so that's what I'm doing
here the first thing it is I took some
measurements and made sure it was
centered up where I wanted it and after
I did that it took a marker and marked
around it and of course when you go to
cut it out you got to cut inside that
mark about is about 3/4 of an inch on
this sink
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I received my laminate in the mail and
it needed to cut it down to be the width
of the countertops and this is a five
foot wide roll by twelve foot long and
it seemed like it'd be kind of crazy to
unroll it and try to cut in half that
way so I took a flooring saw and made a
slit where I could insert my jigsaw and
I just cut it in half that way and it
works just fine laminating the laminate
to your countertop deck that you just
constructed we want to use the original
contact cement the crazy solvent stuff
yeah it stinks and it's messy but that
stuff is super strong when you bond it
so you coat both sides of your deck and
your laminate you let it sit for about
15 minutes
you put it together and I have a
j-roller somewhere which is like a
roller you used to let pressure on it
but I could not find it so unfortunately
my method here was to walk on it and to
use my hands eventually I figured out I
could use a rag to glide across the
laminate and apply pressure with my hand
and that would be good enough
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on this piece once I got the laminate
pressed down pretty firmly I took my
router with a flush trim bit and went
ahead and did the edges here's a clip of
the flush trim bit at work here on the
router you can see you need one of these
absolutely when you're doing laminate
after I edge this I went back with a rag
in my hand and pressed down really hard
around the edges and everywhere else on
this laminate made sure it was really
adhered then I took my flush trim and
cut out the kitchen sink opening before
I start gluing on this edging I prepped
the edges of the countertop with this
detail sander and some 80 grit sandpaper
my countertop side to use an angle
finder too for all these weird random
angles I cut and then I used a miter saw
to cut the angles it helps what you do
is you kind of tape one piece in to go
off of and then figure out the other
ones and make them fit up as good as you
can as you can see here even as I'm
gluing this first piece on here I have
the other piece taped on there just so I
can press this one right up against it
and I know where they're gonna go
together and then get the tightest seam
that way or the tightest joint I'm using
some type on to regular type wood glue
and even though I didn't figured it out
first I figured out the best way to put
a line in the little groove that got in
this edging and then another little line
below it of glue and you just press it
up against your countertop and kind of
wiggle it up and down a little bit smear
the glue then it'll stick pretty good
and then after that that's when you go
ahead and start taping it on there
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so you'll wait about an hour for that
glue to dry and you pull the tape off
and your countertops are done all you
need now maybe a nice little backsplash
or something some tiles or something on
the back of there it's all done now
countertop we're done man
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