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Bob Vila meets with contractor Ed Weller, who explains how the steel-framed kitchen table will support a surface of Surell and also how the table will be mounted.

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Steel Kitchen Table

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Discussing the Landscape Plan

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Steel Kitchen Table

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" Floor and arranged around here it really does -- went okay. And you picked up a drive job. Now this is what the well there was just make. Then just finish this up. It's a little bit thousands check before the dimensions and it's. It's still being a little bit got it was -- without a doubt a unique object you know and the idea is that it it's kind of again in nature of tropical leave and maybe some stands you -- I think -- that with the -- is it up yet is leaning that way but. It is it is going to be this high. No actually how we've we've set it up where we're gonna embedded in the concrete Bob about two inches. So you've got to break into the country ESU large pot some more of the ceramic tile we have to prop up from -- to the plate for weld a little differently we expected and I don't accept it. This is -- quarter rich place deal which means you can stand up here it's it's really sturdy. What's the finished top going to be this is going to be thoughts are real proper famous the same width of the finish -- I've got a template here. So if we like the countertops. Yeah and those same guy that's making the throughout profit making it up more so this is going to be the effect. The colors are -- this is just a mock up yeah I would just that get enough so that we could cut back at table four inches this give you want him -- kitchen. Well what you have to do did break the concrete shall we move this out of away. Yeah market first -- marketplace. When you to Markham. Where we're gonna. We're going to sink he's now probably about two inches. And then we're gonna use these sleep bankers. So you've got a little six straight into concrete and then you'll use sleeve anchors that he. Point shift right. The time and -- anchors that when you when you drive the boat they expand down and down below -- they've really. And that's really felt that it doesn't somebody doesn't bump and until that overall -- themselves -- the -- will cover that -- violent concrete afterward OK shall we move this out of the way sugar you can get started. And degree. One that that's good. Not on Tuesday there you go. And yeah look very clear I can kick civil some us what this. With a little striking hammer and a movie is put on the and you better -- the goggles."

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