Field notes: the complicated counters from last spring arrive
Last May, I designed an adventurous and complex kitchen and domestic workplace. The style changed into a transitional contemporary with an emphasis at the cutting-edge. My layout turned into a imaginative and prescient of reputedly unsupported cantilevers, risers and descenders; all crafted from a stark white Silestone.
Well, this job has been under construction for quite a while and here it is November already. The second phase of my counter installation took place yesterday and there's one phase left to go before these counters are in completely. Like I said, this is a complicated design, clearly the most difficult to install I've ever dreamed up. Difficult, though not impossible and the counter fabricators have been an integral part of this process the whole way through. None of this would have been possible with the expertise of Cutting Edge Granite in Largo, FL ; and I cannot imagine any other fabricator pulling this off.
Today's phase dealt with the large horizontal pieces that will make up the kitchen counters, the window seat (for lack of a better term) and the desk. The space where these surfaces were to be installed were unreachable by the usual means of lugging around 500-lb. slabs of counter material, so Cutting Edge brought in a crane and they hoisted each piece up in through a second floor window.
Before any of this can be set up, the engineering had to be worked out and kudos to Allan Palmer for doing the maths. That "window seat" consists of a run of 9-inch tall drawers that cling 12 inches above the floor. That makes for an eight foot span supporting at least 500 kilos of Silestone plus the burden of whoever makes a decision to definitely sit at the counter whilst it is accomplished. As you can see in the films underneath, that engineering surprise become all however being jumped in this morning with nary a shudder. Unless you count number mine. I know it could support over a thousand kilos, however it is nevertheless unnerving to look at.
So it became a effective day and the entirety went as deliberate. I can't thank Cutting Edge enough for his or her talent and professionalism via this entire procedure. I ought to thank my customer too. Without whose test ebook none of this will manifest. Just wait until you spot the leisure middle I even have cooked up.
The long piece so as to become because the window seat gets hoisted as much as the window.
It's then stuck via capable fingers and eased into the room.
Once it is within the window, an entire lot of yelling ensues. I suppose the yelling is an imperative part of the manner. You'd yell too in case you have been unexpectedly handed something that weighed 500 pounds and fee $5000.
And so after the dirt settles down a little bit, my idea starts to take its final shape. I swear, I have the first-class job inside the international.
