Comments on: How to install metal edging on your retro laminate countertops http://retrorenovation.com/2008/10/11/how-to-install-steel-countertop-edging-on-your-retro-laminate-countertops/ A place for your postwar 40s 50s and 60s style kitchens, bathrooms and mid century modern home aesthetic. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:37:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Mid Mod Pam http://retrorenovation.com/2008/10/11/how-to-install-steel-countertop-edging-on-your-retro-laminate-countertops/comment-page-1/#comment-16535 Mid Mod Pam Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:46:04 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=5665#comment-16535 Here's the post on handling a curved countertop edge: http://retrorenovation.com/2008/10/15/can-i-use-stainless-steel-snap-on-edging-to-make-a-curve-not-easily-use-butcher-block-or-switch-to-aluminum-tee-molding/ I have also added it to the Resource-Basics Page: http://retrorenovation.com/re2-basics/retro-laminates/ Here’s the post on handling a curved countertop edge:

http://retrorenovation.com/2008/10/15/can-i-use-stainless-steel-snap-on-edging-to-make-a-curve-not-easily-use-butcher-block-or-switch-to-aluminum-tee-molding/

I have also added it to the Resource-Basics Page:

http://retrorenovation.com/re2-basics/retro-laminates/

]]> By: CrestwoodsSpringfield1952 http://retrorenovation.com/2008/10/11/how-to-install-steel-countertop-edging-on-your-retro-laminate-countertops/comment-page-1/#comment-16515 CrestwoodsSpringfield1952 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:56:22 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=5665#comment-16515 Hey Pam, I haven't called NY Metals, but I did get in touch with someone at Bars and Booths. I don't think they completely understood what I was asking as their reply was basically that they don't carry the style of edging I was inquiring about, but offered what they do carry. Wasn't my question, BUT, I take it they either can't or don't want to work with the style from NY Metals. I have someone who still owns one of the counter tops from one of the houses I want, and although the length of the counter/trim was cut down to be re-used in another part of their house, the rounded part is still in tact, and I will just have to seam and extend it further by mating the original with new from NY Metals. I should be ok for my future counter, but I'm sure there are others who would like to use the great NY Metals edging for the same style purpose, so if anyone finds a place that has the tools or experience to round such trim, keep us all posted. I think someone already called NY Metals on this and they basically posted the reply somewhere else on here. Robyn Hey Pam,

I haven’t called NY Metals, but I did get in touch with someone at Bars and Booths. I don’t think they completely understood what I was asking as their reply was basically that they don’t carry the style of edging I was inquiring about, but offered what they do carry. Wasn’t my question, BUT, I take it they either can’t or don’t want to work with the style from NY Metals. I have someone who still owns one of the counter tops from one of the houses I want, and although the length of the counter/trim was cut down to be re-used in another part of their house, the rounded part is still in tact, and I will just have to seam and extend it further by mating the original with new from NY Metals. I should be ok for my future counter, but I’m sure there are others who would like to use the great NY Metals edging for the same style purpose, so if anyone finds a place that has the tools or experience to round such trim, keep us all posted. I think someone already called NY Metals on this and they basically posted the reply somewhere else on here.
Robyn

]]> By: Mid Mod Pam http://retrorenovation.com/2008/10/11/how-to-install-steel-countertop-edging-on-your-retro-laminate-countertops/comment-page-1/#comment-15568 Mid Mod Pam Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:37:14 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=5665#comment-15568 CrestwoodsSpringfield1952 aka Robyn, have you talked to NY Metals about this question? That's probably where I would go first. I tend to think that to make the curve, you're going to need at minimum to go to a professional who works with steel fabrication....Pam CrestwoodsSpringfield1952 aka Robyn, have you talked to NY Metals about this question? That’s probably where I would go first. I tend to think that to make the curve, you’re going to need at minimum to go to a professional who works with steel fabrication….Pam

]]> By: CrestwoodsSpringfield1952 http://retrorenovation.com/2008/10/11/how-to-install-steel-countertop-edging-on-your-retro-laminate-countertops/comment-page-1/#comment-15452 CrestwoodsSpringfield1952 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:28:42 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=5665#comment-15452 Hi everyone. I am so excited about that place in NY still supplying the counter edging. One thing that puzzles me though, is not so much the mitred edges, but how to you get that edge to smoothly form around a semi-circular counter end? In the home I am planning, there will be a "breakfast/snack bar" counter that will have a rounded end to it, with three little half round shelves on the side of the cabinet (under the main counter). With the way the snap on metal is constructed, I can see where it won't "wrap around" that part of the counter without it buckling due to the stiffness of the part that goes under the counter board as well as the part that goes over the Formica. I figured I would have to notch the part that goes under the counter, but I sure wouldn't do that to the part that shows on top. My aunt's kitchen (that I would be re-creating) had this same edge (although I think it was only 3/4" high), and it wraped right on around her counter edge as smooth as could be. I hope this wasn't something custom rolled or formed at the factory. Anyone have any ideas of how it's done? Thanks, Robyn PS: I will post a pic of what this area looks like, when I figure out how to put photos on here. :-) Hi everyone. I am so excited about that place in NY still supplying the counter edging. One thing that puzzles me though, is not so much the mitred edges, but how to you get that edge to smoothly form around a semi-circular counter end? In the home I am planning, there will be a “breakfast/snack bar” counter that will have a rounded end to it, with three little half round shelves on the side of the cabinet (under the main counter). With the way the snap on metal is constructed, I can see where it won’t “wrap around” that part of the counter without it buckling due to the stiffness of the part that goes under the counter board as well as the part that goes over the Formica. I figured I would have to notch the part that goes under the counter, but I sure wouldn’t do that to the part that shows on top. My aunt’s kitchen (that I would be re-creating) had this same edge (although I think it was only 3/4″ high), and it wraped right on around her counter edge as smooth as could be. I hope this wasn’t something custom rolled or formed at the factory. Anyone have any ideas of how it’s done?
Thanks,
Robyn
PS: I will post a pic of what this area looks like, when I figure out how to put photos on here. :-)

]]> By: Mid Mod Pam http://retrorenovation.com/2008/10/11/how-to-install-steel-countertop-edging-on-your-retro-laminate-countertops/comment-page-1/#comment-15419 Mid Mod Pam Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:57:52 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=5665#comment-15419 nancy b - Done! I put two new photos in the post -- "inside corner" and "outside backsplash" to show the detail. Goodness, I need to dust! nancy b - Done! I put two new photos in the post — “inside corner” and “outside backsplash” to show the detail. Goodness, I need to dust!

]]> By: nancyb http://retrorenovation.com/2008/10/11/how-to-install-steel-countertop-edging-on-your-retro-laminate-countertops/comment-page-1/#comment-15413 nancyb Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:48:02 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=5665#comment-15413 Thanks for the tutorial, Pam! Can I just press the easy button and "pouf!" have the 50's kitchen of my dreams? Due to my morbid fear of picking the wrong contractor and wasting time, money, materials and my sanity, I've convinced my husband that we can do this ourselves. Luckily, we have simple manageable-sized countertops. One area I'm confused about is highlighted in this picture: http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/starletstyle/dsc_0958.jpg Could you take a close-up of this area, pllleeeeaaase? Thanks! Thanks for the tutorial, Pam! Can I just press the easy button and “pouf!” have the 50’s kitchen of my dreams? Due to my morbid fear of picking the wrong contractor and wasting time, money, materials and my sanity, I’ve convinced my husband that we can do this ourselves. Luckily, we have simple manageable-sized countertops. One area I’m confused about is highlighted in this picture:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/starletstyle/dsc_0958.jpg
Could you take a close-up of this area, pllleeeeaaase?

Thanks!

]]> By: Elizabeth Mary http://retrorenovation.com/2008/10/11/how-to-install-steel-countertop-edging-on-your-retro-laminate-countertops/comment-page-1/#comment-15393 Elizabeth Mary Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:56:07 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=5665#comment-15393 Pam, I am writing to tell readers that there is another edging made by the same company: aluminum. That is what I decided to use for my countertops, partly because the stainless cove looked confusing and the countertop would have to be the exact right thickness for the snap on to work. But, the main reason was that when looked at my current/orginal counters I realized that they are edged in aluminum, with holes for screwing the edging in place, and nailing the cove in place. So, being the freak I am about staying original when possible, I decided on the aluminum in the polished finish. The package arrived this week from Astoria, Queens, and it is beautiful and shiny just as the stainless is. Now, I just have to hope that my contractor can get the countertop made soon. It will be the charcoal colored boomerang and I can't wait to see it in my little 1946 kitchen. Elizabeth Mary from Hudson NY Pam,
I am writing to tell readers that there is another edging made by the same company: aluminum. That is what I decided to use for my countertops, partly because the stainless cove looked confusing and the countertop would have to be the exact right thickness for the snap on to work.

But, the main reason was that when looked at my current/orginal counters I realized that they are edged in aluminum, with holes for screwing the edging in place, and nailing the cove in place. So, being the freak I am about staying original when possible, I decided on the aluminum in the polished finish. The package arrived this week from Astoria, Queens, and it is beautiful and shiny just as the stainless is. Now, I just have to hope that my contractor can get the countertop made soon. It will be the charcoal colored boomerang and I can’t wait to see it in my little 1946 kitchen.

Elizabeth Mary from Hudson NY

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