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Installing a Granite Countertop and Kitchen Cabinets

Bob talks with Jim Azerome who installs a granite countertop and Mike Burk who installs the kitchen cabinets and drawers.

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Installing a Granite Countertop and Kitchen Cabinets

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" Now let's talk with Jim as a room from imperial. Tile and marble here in Providence -- is that having -- Just a little bit little bit. This is. Native American. Granite I think it's called poor marks on whom the student who with skin color a lot of Colorado. As far as labels to function well. And first job they actually were with a skull. Now the interesting thing is that Luke our homeowner bought this at auction. And it's obviously from a remodeled or removed from the a job that was maybe done ten years ago. Approximately yeah that this this this method was what was done. Come cultures in popular in stone three quarter inch stock most of the stoppages -- outage for Russian quarterly so we have to do here to join. Well with a traditional look at these links and parallel by adjusting and down here then we're gonna fuse. That much that's good. And I -- legislatively. But you have to join them with epoxy right yes -- epoxy mixed up. Now at this point it's up -- get the glue and here. Consult. Wooden shim it and we're going to. Apply an epoxy peninsula between treatments that would cut this in this out. Because this is just no cure for support during transport right and that this is the cook top cut. So you're using a two part epoxy to join the two pieces two part epoxy with some. Color much. Do you have about ten or fifteen minutes grace period with epoxy on this sweltering humidity with little harder and -- believable performance four minutes. And so like an artist you work in a little bit of a different color the grey on top of the beige suit to blend in with the colors of the granite."

" Robert this epoxy is set up. We're going to remove this middle piece here which was only on for support during transport. Don't know we have strength from the bond formed of epoxy going to cut here and here moved instantly to -- with a cooktop tripled since."

" And the cooktop. "

" This and we took it -- nice job Jim Mike Bert is here from premier kitchen and bath and these are sure cabinets that humans are patriotic front deluxe cabinets -- going to have a recorder picked up there were -- With me nice -- on the morrow rail system gives you more access what kind of Israel -- the blob -- that's the -- apparently they're very nice thing because they're on the bottom of the towards that a lot of sides to get to have a bigger drawer exactly. Trying to keep up with European design for frameless. It clicks in like that so that's -- take you -- blocks so it can't fall. And we want to take these drawers -- When you click them in just pull them out after and they click in from the bottom. They're self closing -- OK but they also supply all sorts of specialty outlet of the molding that we see here right. Yes please state chosen the conflict columns with -- columns literally finishing the crown molding detail on top. Yeah and they have three inch on the left and right finish and complete -- only when it's done it really looks like a custom job yes it does nice."

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