Lazy Granite Installation Guide

Lazy Granite Installation Guide

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Installation first thing we do is really down it half-inch plywood on top of the cabinets and secured to the carrots. Then we screw a quarter-inch thick concrete backboard on top of plywood. Really do that is because there were some water that would see through a crowd going onto the plywood, plywood soak it in expand and potentially be some damage also the plywood just this trap of water and foster some old. Awesome installers your product actually use our three-quarter-inch plywood and then waterproof the type of plywood instead of using backboard. It's not what we officially recommended but didn't remember when you're laying down. The backer board make sure that your seams don't line up with the plywood seems added strength. Once you get that in place you don't want to mark the whole for your sink and that go ahead cut it out you might want to set something up temporarily underneath that future hole so that the piece you're cutting out doesn't come crashing down into a cabinet. Once we've done that it's important to lay out the tiles just to make sure that we like how everything works in terms of color and that all the edging lines up pretty well you might want to move some things around before you actually start laying the stone.

Once you already start laying the stone need to make sure mortar mix the more you need an empty buckets of water and something to mix it with our packaging on the mortar always tells you how much you need to mix in with how much water and once you start mixing it's just like pancake batter you just mix until they get the clumps out. When you're ready you just plop on the border onto the backboard and spread it around using a trial. Won't be pretty liberal with the amount of more use for two reasons, first is that you don't want your voice underneath profile that would obviously make weak points and secondly the mortars what gives you room and play with to level things out. A long level is very helpful to level out the stone. We're using plastic spacers here to get a consistently big for outline. The sink on this project is pretty big so it SAT right on top of the bullnose we started a big titles in both the left and right side of the sink so that was left bill was the rear portion think they're just a couple of inches there so we did that in the end where we just had some leftover pieces and we use those leftover pieces to go in behind the sink. Inside corners there are two different things you can do to this color we had ready to go inside corners I can see is complete that there if we don't have an inside corner in your color you can just minor cut the bull nose at a 45-degree angle you'll be able to see one of those 45-degree minor cuts and a slideshow here.

On a different installation with easy tile in this particular case we might have cut just a bull nose portion of the easy tile and then inside corner we built with some big tiles. Will have some diagrams under the granite faq section soon it will show you some different ways of how you can do it inside corner. For the outside corner this customer decided to just minor cut the bullnose most books user rounded corners because it's safe in the pokey edge but just minor credit is always an option. Most vocal kids grandkids really like around the corner it's not something you can do with 12 x 12 tiles. For the backsplash we often uses ogee edge generally because it's by far the easiest to do you basically just glued to the wall and you're done our liquid nails they make a good specifically for granite marble and that's what we typically use when you're working with the OG edge it's just like base trim in terms of the angles in the custom you need to make. Once the backsplash is done we're ready for the grout and before the ground in actually vacuumed out the cracks to get some sawdust out. This is really isn't too important a step but it only takes a couple of minutes so we usually do it. The tool used for pressing the ground into the joint is called flow, this process really quickly typically get a non-standard grout makes it just like you mix the mortar and you'll need a wet sponge to clean off the tiles for way you don't need grow. Its very quick and easy process.

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