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Ligna Laminate Material Installation in the Kitchen

Bob joins Ed Weller, who is working on a kitchen addition. Laurinda Spear has designed a banana leaf partition that Ed's crew will be making out of a revolutionary hardened laminate material called Ligna. Ligna is also being installed in the kitchen by Jeff Grosman.
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Ligna Laminate Material Installation in the Kitchen

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" Our architect learned this fear. Who design the whole kitchen remodel came up with the idea of using tropical fruits and leaves and misrepresent the banana leaf. And it's it's it's off its class in this new lenient you know all of grew up with Formica kitchen cabinets and hunt table and Formica bringing in a product that's made in Italy -- and you can get it -- all sorts of different wood tones that made from poplar that's grown on three farms but what's really exciting is. The number of different finishes pretty confident. All of a polyurethane but you've got these red stains and green stains and as you can see here tree using a combination of greens and -- dark."

" Kind of future color let's talk -- yet Grossman's company kitchen bath in Miami during installation. And yet. And devices beautiful stuff is that by the way its ultimate kitchen and bath its ultimate -- back. And you've got a couple of your cohorts with you here this cafe in depth report on Vincent. And they have done a beautiful job so far but a lot of time and effort into it now. You're cutting right through the veneer with the idea. Eleven at night right. Yes that's tonight that we use which shows on the first cut that we make it's that the perfect cut that we used to matchup of veneers that we use at night to get efforts cut he needs. And then -- you need one more cut one more path and we try to work with three cuts this waist deep enough so we. -- the land and and break it. The veneer and break away break the Terrell. And -- go and sizes up on the wall. And that has to do it right there which you see. Do the actual work but it is a racket just right at Smith eleven and buses here for the wood veneer cementitious. Knives. Has a pretty clean cut it to pretty clean got. Of course that's going to size it up and then. We have to get a perfect cut and that's the other grand. On the veneer so imagine perfect yes -- there's a repeat. And feels -- and cabinet making her. Making furniture with many years you want to make sure that you're matching. A -- exact. You can see it's a little rigid on the edge yes that's why it's bringing battens -- rather the plane the edge OK. But you'll only have the -- the first couple feet right just the slogan on the edge. As we saw as a pretty close to the exact size that we -- before. There's roughly. Eighteen inches. That should be terrific Matt and Jeff politics salute on what evidence he's abuse. Is that contests. Types meant regular cut excellent the -- as likely as I got it exactly. That means same way. I looked pretty darn good. Since it is very close step themselves -- get. So we brush on the contact cement -- elephant was sprayed on there is spray gun that sprayed out with the compressor. As does friendly face of -- here feel for this is that I fit theoretically. Where -- place it back on their forever. -- Why do you need to use a roller. Always a role in the nation's uniform contact between glue on the wall in the glow in the land. And it gets only air bubbles out patterns time. We're kicking around here. Take off all the excess material that's. Following the bottom you -- Alvarez. The contact group -- pick up finished with World -- felt."

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