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mystifiedme

Please help me with how to support a live edge slab vanity counter

mystifiedme
9 years ago
The slab is D. 1.75" x L. 80". Left end is w. 18", right end width is 12"
The counter is going wall to wall the length of the small powder room
I see many shots of like what I'm doing but no info on installation that I've found.

Thank you very much.
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  • libradesigneye
    9 years ago
    Generally, you place the stone on a plywood subtop that is bolted / countersunk through bolted to steel L brackets below / sometimes an entire frame since your distance is over six feet, but if you put sufficient plywood blocking across the wall where it will be supported then you don't have to worry about conflicts with the available studs. You can run the L up or down, depending on where your tile will go (if you are tiling around this on the face of the wall). Many contractors will set the plywood bolted in, then face the wall behind with drywall or tile underlayment / cement board in a wet room, then once that is finished properly, finish by setting the stone onto the plywood. You may want the stone guys to come for that installation day so they have their grinders to scribe the ends - these areas are rarely square. The plywood subtop / support would be recessed from the live edge between 4 and 8 inches so you never see it unless you lay down on the floor. Guessing your sink is not going in the slab itself? In an undermount situation, the subtop needs to work with all the dimensions - sub top, then sink then stone ..

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