Each owner knows how important it is to equip the kitchen correctly: convenient for cooking, kitchen work and for daily breakfast, lunch and dinners. One of the important stages of the repair of the kitchen is the choice and installation of the table top.
Choose a countertop today seemingly not a problem. However, not all so simple. Despite the rich choice of industrial production furniture, most often, it is manufactured by standard size, and, say, in the design of a small kitchen, such countertops do not fit.
You can still buy an uncomfortable table and tolerate it in the kitchen, and you can do everything yourself, then the tabletop with your own hands will be comfortable and functional. If we build a house with your own hands, with such a simple task, as the manufacture of the tabletop yourself, it will be easy to cope.
As already mentioned, the most important advantage of the countertops made by their own hands is the opportunity to enter it into any design. Countertops are made of various materials: concrete, stone, wood, plastic.
Artificial countertop will serve you for a long time. In addition, you can mount it taking into account the wishes of all family members, that is, at a certain height and a certain form.
Most often there are artificial countertops from concrete. Heavy artificial stone countertops are also common, which looks great in the kitchen. So, it's time to learn how to make a countertop with your own hands for your kitchen.
Artificial tabletop made of concrete with his own hands
Consider the process of manufacturing table tops from concrete. Note that such a countertop will be particularly durable and durable, of course, provided that you followed manufacturing technology.
To make a concrete countertop, you need to prepare formwork boards, a dye for concrete, polyethylene for the formation of walls and bottom, concrete, crushed stone, sand, fittings for a frame, polystyolmine. The whole process is divided into several stages.
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1. Mounting frame. At the smooth smooth board, attach the sides - so you get a form for the future tabletop. Safety is easy to make small diameter bars from wooden bars.
Next to the frame attaching a sheet of polystyolster. It is this material that we form the size and shape of the table top. The distance between the edges will be equal to the width of the table.
Inside the sheet of polystylene should be closed with polyethylene. So concrete does not stick to the material and will freeze smoothly. Some wizards use lubricant instead of polyethylene, such as Olif.
2. Preparation of material for the table top. If we build a house yourself, then surely work with concrete will not be in a novelty. It is no secret that to obtain a rack and durable design, you need to insert fittings into concrete.
Therefore, in front of the fill take care of a strong framework: set the frame of the frame from the reinforcement.
3. Summary of the solution. The cement solution should be creamy. For one part of the concrete, take two parts of rubble and concrete. Do not forget to add a little cement plasticizer to the composition.
There is an option to cover in the following tabletop tiled. But we will not consider this option. Since the surface of the concrete will be open, it must be painted. To do this, use the dye for concrete.
4. Stage of the fill of concrete. The solution is poured into the form for the tabletop and rolls on top with a spatula. From above, cover the future countertop film so that the construction trash does not get into the non-frozen solution.
To ensure that the cement solution is completely frozen, it is usually necessary for about a week.
Installation of table tops from concrete with their own hands
So, our solution froze. Now the countertop must be given aesthetically attractive look. To do this, it needs to be pretty polished. Creating a design of a private house or cottage, do not forget about the final construction stage, always bring the appearance of the product to perfection.
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You can polish the countertop using a grinding machine. First, on the surface of the future kitchen table, you need to go through a disk with a large grain. So you remove unnecessary protrusions, rubble pieces.
Bring to absolute smoothness is a disk with small grain. When the surface becomes a smooth and pleasant to the touch, remove all the dust.
Special composition for sale in construction stores, with which you can make the surface of the table-tops close by properties to granite. Apply the fattop compounds on the worktop and polish the future table with a soft cloth and grinding paste.
Tabletop is ready. Please note that the concrete table is rather heavy, it is especially important to securely install it. Make it can be directly secured by a tabletop on the wall, or using strong metal pipes or stripes for the stand.
Bold the worktop with metal reinforcement: brackets and screws.
The resulting table will serve you not one year. Smooth concrete surface is not scary, scratches and other damage.
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