Harry Pye
10-12-2004, 5:43 PM
All my life I have suffered from "Foot in Mouth" disease. Recently I had another attack and got myself in a little bind.
I offered to install a new bathroom vanity for one of my neighbors. Not a big deal and I've done this job before. This one is a little different. The vanity is 60" long and fits between walls that are roughly 60" apart. Should be reasonably easy. The rub is with the vanity top. It is simulated marble with an integral sink and it is 61" long. (I suppose the manufacturer made it long to allow some overhang in a more conventional installation.) But, inevitably, I’ll have to trim it to length.
If it was wood, I'd know what to do but this is simulated marble from Lowes. The guy at the store said he had never installed one but said it should be cut with a masonry saw blade, the kind used for bricks.
Does this sound right? If not a masonry blade, what else would I use? Since I'd like to scribe it to the wall more exactly, can the final fitting be done with a belt sander?
Please help me get my foot out of my mouth!
Harry
I offered to install a new bathroom vanity for one of my neighbors. Not a big deal and I've done this job before. This one is a little different. The vanity is 60" long and fits between walls that are roughly 60" apart. Should be reasonably easy. The rub is with the vanity top. It is simulated marble with an integral sink and it is 61" long. (I suppose the manufacturer made it long to allow some overhang in a more conventional installation.) But, inevitably, I’ll have to trim it to length.
If it was wood, I'd know what to do but this is simulated marble from Lowes. The guy at the store said he had never installed one but said it should be cut with a masonry saw blade, the kind used for bricks.
Does this sound right? If not a masonry blade, what else would I use? Since I'd like to scribe it to the wall more exactly, can the final fitting be done with a belt sander?
Please help me get my foot out of my mouth!
Harry