Removing stone worktop

Conan257

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As part of the renovation I'm doing of an older house, I need to remove the worktop from the kitchen.

It's some kind of stone, no idea what, and has the corners mitered and bonded in some fashion.

Any tips for breaking the join? Apart from just brute force? Whole thing is 7m long, so I'll never get it lifted without a lot of help
 
When you say the whole thing is 7m long. I assume this is broken down into sections of around 2.4m-3m?

If you get a crowbar in between the worktop and the cabinet tops and pry upwards it'll break at the weak points. That's what happened when we removed the marble one from our house.
 
Yeah, it's 1m, then 4m, then 2m in a strange u-shape.

I'll try again levering it with the crowbar, maybe get the father to sit on one bit
 
Yeah, just takes some effort. If you work it from the edges.

Otherwise if you can get a flat saw or something like that run it between the worktop and the cabinets as the worktops will just be glued onto the top of the cabinets.
 
if it were stone in a reasonable nick ... could you sell it/advertise on gumtree .ie. get someone else to remove/collect it
 
Marvt74 said:
Yeah, just takes some effort. If you work it from the edges.

Otherwise if you can get a flat saw or something like that run it between the worktop and the cabinets as the worktops will just be glued onto the top of the cabinets.
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Not sure they glue them TBH, our granite one isn't (not sure if this is due to it being a u shape or not).
 
theone8181 said:
Not sure they glue them TBH, our granite one isn't (not sure if this is due to it being a u shape or not).
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Our Quartz one isn't - if I push hard enough on two points (it's an 8m run) it will flex ever so slightly that it lightly taps the top of the cupboards. It is so quiet and subtle that you almost cannot hear it.
 
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