Templates

This morning I cleared off the counter tops and screwed in the two spacer boards that I had installed last night on the sides of the dining room base cabinets.  The counter top fabricator representative arrived at 9:30am and brought with him a bucket containing a hot glue gun, lots of glue pellets and some short pieces of wood marked for various standard counter top overhangs for the cabinet tops.  He also brought in a lot of long, thin wood strips and an 8-foot long straight edge.

Tacking wood strips with hot glue to create a template

The wood templates will be placed on our granite, which will then be cut with a diamond tipped, water-cooled circular saw blade in the shop.

Kitchen cabinets with completed templates

Completed island template with 12-inch overhang 

The fabricator rep packed up and left the scene at 4pm - a long day for me sitting and watching someone else work for a change.

I plan to drop by the fabricator's shop tomorrow morning to participate in the template layout on the granite to choose the best area of the two slabs we have stored there.  The vanity was also templated for the marble counter top.  Cutting will occur later this week and delivery and installation should be sometime next week.  We can't wait!