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| 20 Jan 2009 10:07 PM |
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ok guys you know whats coming here , clamshell corian L shape top ,best way to do the joint ,patern is all over the place ,will the warranty be void if you do a mitre corner. |
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Jeff Vickers
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| 20 Jan 2009 11:01 PM |
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Here in the UK we have been advised to mitre the corner and then create an offset site joint in the normal way. mitre will need a cleat upto and around the internal radius downturn.
I will try and post a photo asap.
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| 20 Jan 2009 11:05 PM |
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Doing a mitre directly in the corner will not void the warranty on Corian. Be sure to reinforce the seam with seam straps that make contact with adhesive against the back of the drop edge. Also be sure to use corner blocks when constructing the corner of the drop edge. The butt seam in the drop edge should be a distance of at least 1 1/2 times the radius from the end of the radius corner. I always make the but seam at a 45 deg angle to the face of the edge. Much stronger this way.
Example: 1/2" radius inside corner. Seam should be no closer than 2" from the actual corner, or 1 1/2" from the end of the radius of the corner.
I had a customer choose Ecru Corian in a "U" shape kitchen. When shown the veining issue they decided to have all the grain go the same direction. The two side sections of the U had the grain going the long way and the center section had the grain going the short way. With the cooktop in the center section is helped and it looked pretty good.
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| 20 Jan 2009 11:16 PM |
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Expertly put Johny C |
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Andy Graves
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| 20 Jan 2009 11:35 PM |
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We do the mitre corner and then put a site seam like normal. When butting this color, you should have pretty good luck not noticing the pattern change. If you are worried about pattern at the site seam, try cutting the full sheet where you want the site seam and then pull back together to cut the corner mitre. This way, when you do the site seam, it is an almost perfect match. I thought I had some better pictures of the Burled Beach, but this is the best I could come up with. These are mitered in the corner through the sink.   |
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| 20 Jan 2009 11:41 PM |
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When I did one last we used a wave seam instead of just a straight seam. Worked bueatifully. I never liked putting a mitre seam from the corner. The crest to the trough was only 1 1/2". real easy if you have a cnc. That job had two field seams and full height splashes that were seamed together as well, you could not find the seams, even the distrubutor came to take a look.
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David Jones
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| 21 Jan 2009 05:58 PM |
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many thanks guys. |
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Steve Mehan
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| 21 Jan 2009 10:49 PM |
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 Here is a top we did in coriasn Earth with a miter seam top & bottom pics hope this helps. There really is no way to have the pattern match with some of there colors  |
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| 22 Jan 2009 01:46 PM |
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Posted By Steve Mehan on 21 Jan 2009 04:49 PM
There really is no way to have the pattern match with some of there colors
We've thrown around the idea of trying to use Slabsmith on colors like this to attempt to get the veins to line up. We've been procrastinating though so it still hasn't happened.  |
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| 22 Jan 2009 02:18 PM |
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Sometimes it's what you tell your customer. Here's an interesting link to a Corian site . Your able to show customers what there top is going to look like using the private collection colors.
Click on one of the colors it will prompt you what to do next
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| 22 Jan 2009 02:57 PM |
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Jon, Its fuuny you mentioned that we use that link whenever we have some pick a private collection color, and have either an L or a U shaped top. It is helpful. This customer wanted the miter corner and we cut it while they were in the shop for them to approve the pattern match. Weve used a miter on the Raincloud color and also the Sagebrush, they look nice, Ultimately its the customers choice .
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| 26 Feb 2010 01:09 AM |
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Posted By Jon Olson on 22 Jan 2009 08:18 AM
Sometimes it's what you tell your customer. Here's an interesting link to a Corian site . Your able to show customers what there top is going to look like using the private collection colors.
Click on one of the colors it will prompt you what to do next
I think Du Pont may have changed this web page. I went there trying to show a customer what the Privat collection colors would look like in a mitred "L" layout. It didn't help me. It seems like I had gone there when this thread first ran. At that time the link took me to a page that allowed you to see an "L" configuration with a mitre and change the color. Anyone know about this link? Johnny C |
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| 26 Feb 2010 01:25 AM |
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Posted By Andy Graves on 20 Jan 2009 05:35 PM
We do the mitre corner and then put a site seam like normal. When butting this color, you should have pretty good luck not noticing the pattern change.
If you are worried about pattern at the site seam, try cutting the full sheet where you want the site seam and then pull back together to cut the corner mitre. This way, when you do the site seam, it is an almost perfect match.
I thought I had some better pictures of the Burled Beach, but this is the best I could come up with. These are mitered in the corner through the sink.
Andy... this job looked like high gloss... the edge looked 2-2-1/2think and dull. Is it just the photo, or did you do something different??? |
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| 26 Feb 2010 02:06 AM |
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We offer options to the customer. They can (and in my opinion should - in most cases) spin the sheets so the flow stays in one direction. They can choose to simply turn the sheets and change the flow (isn't that the granite way?), or they can have the "Olson miter" (don't even think about a license fee, Olson!) where the miter is staggered a bit like was mentioned here earlier. |
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| 26 Feb 2010 01:25 PM |
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Johnny C,
When you click on the link, then click on private collection colors, then click on any color and you have a choice to download or see a detailed closeup. Click closeup It should work.
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| 26 Feb 2010 04:59 PM |
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Thanks, Steve.
I did get it to work. I guess I just wasn't dancing on the right buttons.
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| 04 Mar 2010 11:41 PM |
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Hey KC,
Sorry for the late response. I didn't see the question at the bottom of the post. We did polish the entire countertop and the edge as well. The camera is a piece of junk that we use for the installation truck. Need to get a new one.
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