DIY Worktops & Backsplash ON A BUDGET!
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- Making DIY kitchen countertops and backsplash on a tight budget using some unusual materials!
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Hi Keith, I'm an ex-floor layer.
Just a cautionary note.
Spray adhesives aren't always suitable for safety floor vinyl. You may find the adhesive goes mushy after a year or two, due to plasticise migration. A warm area tends to accelerate the process.
yeh unfortunately likely to loosen and form a loose large flat bubble in areas. That stuff never really sets
The non skid vinyl you chose contains quartz aggregate and silicon carbide, also known as carborundum. Since the carborundum is manufactured and used as an abrasive it will wear any tool used on it. As a flooring installer we go through a lot of blades fitting this these types of products. A standard commercial vinyl would give you similar results but would be smoother. Nice thinking outside the box though and with the price of products now we all have to get a bit inventive now and then.
The texture comes from stainless filings embedded in the vinyl. Be careful as it may scratch things placed on top. It Looks great 👍
Great solution to the lack of birch ply. Think it looks splendid. You’ve inspired me, Keith.
Thanks Mandy. We are very happy with it so far, no issues
Looks great! Side note, boiling water will limit the pan temp to roughly 100* (rice cookers work by detecting when the heat rises above 100 which only happens when there is no water left). If you fry some onions, the pan will be much hotter.
Yes! I was going to say that oil can get much hotter than water, and that he should retest it! Great minds.
Ok cheers, I should have tried to find a frying pan then... The trouble I had was all our pans are induction ones so had to try and borrow one that I could potentially destroy!! 😬
@@RagnBoneBrown Happy to destroy your mother-in-law's pan and not your own. Good man!
@@RagnBoneBrown The bottom of an induction pan will still get as hot as a pan heated on a gas/electric stove, or certainly close enough anyway for the kind of test you are doing. Having dropped a VERY hot frying pan onto a vinyl floor though I can tell you that will likely damage it, especially on a pale colour like you have.
Vinyl flooring as a working surface is pretty good though. I used an offcut of wood grain pattern flooring to make a protector for our dining table and it's worked great, it looks fine, is super easy to clean and has resisted hot plates, stains, spills etc.
The room turned out nice. I did not expect the vinyl to cope with the hot pan that well. Surprising benefit.
Great work and looks fantastic! I would have taken those taps off and given them an emery/wire brush up, they'd have looked great as well then! Great vids as always, cheers!
I have done this with vinyl tiles back when I had no budget or time for real tiles as a backsplash. I contact glued them straight over the old tiles. They had a nice grey industrial tile look and went on super tight. made my kitchen look super on trend with minimal effort(no removing and then dealing with cutting tiles) for a budget price. They were alright for a few years, but the heat from cooking made them eventually warp which made them bulge slightly around the trapped edges. Everywhere not close to heat they were still perfect after many years. So yeah, this is viable.
To hide the ugly join I’d recommend putting a flat lying conduit for the cable on top of it as this would appear to just be for the cable. Overall amazing video though thanks.
Good idea.
As ever, a fascinating video; there’s nothing quite as interesting as watching an expert do his ‘thing’. Thank you and I look forward to the next one!
I think the only problem is going to be moisture getting between the substrate and vinyl and then it lifting, but if you are careful to keep water from pooling at joints you should be fine. Be great to see an update in a few years!
You want a hook/moon blade for cutting vinyl - I found this out the hard way! The industrial vinyl is quite a bit tougher than the regular stuff.
what a fabulous idea and realised to perfection. i would never have thought about using flooring, thank you for sharing Keith
Brilliant idea - and I love that you ended with all the pros and cons.
Brilliant job, maybe not really the best for a kitchen, but perfect for a utility room or garage workshop,
We use the same stuff to cover sales counters in places like car parts shops, trade counters,
You'd still save money if you fitted the boards, then paid a decent floor fitter to fit the vynal and possibly weld the joints.
(I've seen really God fitters repair that kind of vynal almost invisibly)
Great job 💯
It’s carborundum particles in the flooring, because it’s a safety vinyl, could use a standard industrial vinyl for same project with slightly less wear to your tools. Looks cool, very good idea for utilities, garages etc 👍
That Altro flooring is incredibly hard wearing, I build camper vans for a living and use it on them all. No signs of wear even after 5/6 years!
Another great video! 👍🏻
Keith, i don’t normally comment and as you know ive followed you from day 1, but, lino on a backsplash and a work top. Effing brilliant mate.
Love this kind of video. Putting your own spin on something, taking us on the journey, and sharing the finished product. Bravo.
thank you!
In the past I've used floor vinyl on reception counters and point of sale counters for industrial/mechanical retailers. Also a couple Veterinary clinics.
The vinyl feels more durable than corian/Staron in some instances. Dont put a boiling pot onto unsupported 12mm Corian.
Fantastic transformation! Always love the resourceful approach you take to stuff like this.
Thank you!
I design commercial kitchens and we highly recommend the Altro flooring for kitchen spaces BECAUSE it will stand up to the heat of cooking racks coming straight out of a 500 degree (f) oven. It'll be fine with heat.
Cheers for the feedback good to know 👍
Very nice. Always with in budget in mind... for the times We live in, is premium.
Looks superb Keith, great job. Your router cutter surely took a hammering lol. You've got a good worktop pattern, it won't show the spills and light scratches. I'm glad you kept the old Belfast ceramic, pot sink. Back in the 1980's we used to dump them in the skip when installing new fitted kitchens. If only we new back then they would become fashionable once again. Cheers Tony
Cheers Tony! Yeah a few people have said we should have got rid of the sink but I love it!
From Ikea you can get laminate surface worktops for kitchen with reasonable pricing.
You can almost not leave the contact adhesive too long before forcing them together. Often did around 30 mins to 1hr. I never trimmed until the following day, laminate really thanks me as way less likely to chip. Also have to make sure the laminate is really heavily pressed to the edges. Oh the substrate for desk was 24mm birch ply. 😅
A very good finished product. Lessons learnt for the future. Costs for replacement blade/ bit against laminate. AND taking into consideration of the finished look you want. You will have to get new blades, but the finish looks great. So worth it 🤪😉
Could also be fiberglass mesh in the flooring, which might explain the wear on the tools.
more likely, yes
Fantastic job Keith and a great result. I'm sure your wife is also suitably impressed.
We use actually laminate flooring as a desk top for the same reason. It's a lot cheaper than proper top laminate, very long lasting, and when it's time I can very easily change it with some new laminate flooring. Love the vinyl solution as well!
Really interesting I've got Safety vinyl for my floor in in the campervan never thought to use it as a worktop, might check to see if I can get some more now.
Absolutely awesome job. First rate finish. The use of the flooring was a stroke of genius and in my opinion it’s more functional than laminate. 👍
Thank you!
Nice job! Major improvements to your home. You’re a talented guy.
I just dropped £1700 on custom laminates for a client, it was painful, but massive desks! These are good ideas and why not hey!
Hi Keith, it looks fine to me, and you have solved a problem that I was having, I am seventy-two years old now and it takes me a long time to get downstairs and I have built a table for one of the bedrooms and brought some of my kitchen items upstairs so that I don’t need to be up and down so much. I now have a full-size fridge, microwave, kettle, and a lot of small items, but I was trying to think of a good surface and laminate floor cover is just the ticket. I like what you have done to tidy up your space, but the one thing that lets it down are those taps and piping, a nice pair of taps and converting the pipework to pex so most of it can be hidden below your new worktop would be the cherry on the top.
Cheers John. Yeah new taps are needed, one of them doesn't work properly. It's another thing on the never ending list of things we need to buy but not a priority!
Hi Keith. Excellent video, and very inspiring. Regarding sheets that just won't stick (like at the join), I have a couple if ideas. If I know there wil be a problem, I might add a touch of hot-melt glue at the last moment in the problem area then press the sheet into place. The hot-melt glue would hold the sheet in place while the main glue sets. The other technique would be to put a pressure pad over the area that need pressing into place, add a pad on the wall opposite (if not too far), then use a long piece of wood to bridge the two pads like a spring, which would hold the sheets in place while the glue sets.
Thanks Christopher. Ah I wish I'd have thought of that at the time, that definitely could have worked!!!
Really good transformation and the use of floor vinyl seems to have worked very well. I'm surprised how well it handled the heat
l have seen people use flooring on around a bath and it really looks good. Always thought of doing the same to mine but never got round to it maybe in time l will
Excellent, Keith! Thanks so much for giving me a different idea on finishing a sewing machine cabinet top. It was covered by a very thin veneer, moderately damaged edges and lots of typical table top damage for a vintage piece. I was just going to refinish but, after I stripped the veneer, I really saw the edges damage was more extensive than I initially thought. That made me decide to remove the veneer totally. But, I was at a loss as to how I wanted to finish it. I looked at just replacing the veneer with new veneer but really wanted something which would not get the same damaged edges over time. Your idea of using flooring sounds great. I'll have to be careful to choose something with a smooth surface. Maybe I can even find a piece that looks like wood. That would be awesome. I really love how the room looks now! Great job, Keith!! I love watching you. Watching how you think reminds me of how my dad was in his workshop.Thanks again! Have a great weekend!! 😊
Thank you!
Thanks Keith that was an absolutely brilliant job that you did there. Quite inspiring for a little job that im doing. Birchwood ply !! Well im astonished at the price of ply in general really. I bought a piece of 12mm from a really good local timber merchant that i use. And he did warn me that it may not be quite right. Looking at it, i thought it would sand up nicely, it didn't at all and now used for garden purposes. However a few years ago i bought a lovely piece of 18mm birchwood ply from the same merchant at £40 ish pounds as i figured that it would come in handy, well that turned into a good investment didnt it. Thanks again.
What a bargain! 👍
It looks brilliant Keith and I definitely like the way you've hidden the mdf to make the work surface look like Birch Ply.
Great video mate 👍🏽 👌 👏
Well that turned out nice. I never thought about vinyl for a worktop.
All for simplicity Keith, Great job mate keep um conmin and have a nice day All !!!.😀😀😸😸👍👍.
Thank you
oh the times. we are FAKING plywood edges jeez. Anyway the results are amazing, great job!
Last week I did a wardrobe with a walkthrough to the customer's ensuite. Warm White melamine faced MDF with Plywood look ABS edging. That was an odd job to do.
It’s Carborundum that’s destroying your blades, it’s all the little black dots you can see. Have you thought about welding the join together? That’s the way it’s done normally if you needed to join two bits together.
Great project and very well done. I appreciate your creativity and adaptability. Using the flooring vinyl was brilliant.
Thank you!
This as been a good kitchen build, I never thought about using flooring as a worktop and a splash back,WOW! it work's and look's good.Great video , take care mate.
Thank you!
Mickie is such a gorgeous cat.
Looks amazing. May try this idea for a wall coating in my small toilet.
Nice, like what you did with the ply crafty! 😅 thanks for the shout to mate!!! 🍻😊🍻
Great job, thoroughly enjoying this upgrade. One thing was bothering me about the whole look and I couldn't work out what was off. Then it suddenly came to me, it was the position of the sink compared to the window. As the usual practice is sink below the window this particular layout looks just "not quite right". Just seems very strange to me.
Anyway, keep these vids coming, very entertaining.
Very nice job here again. Hint for saving money on adhesive: (cheapest) Silicone is a good adhesive, too -but takes a little longer to cure than adhesive. Much respect for handling the vertical gap! I would have cut it a little rougher and make a silicone seam. Quick, dirty but not too bad. Still admiring your cat and used tools, as well.
Definitely good idea to test with a hot pot! The kitchen in my parents apartment also has some kind of laminate on the worktop but that just shriveled up and melted when faced with a kettle to make some tea ... oops.
Thumbs up! Plus appreciate your tips at the end.. thank you! ✌👍
Waited 2 weeks for this😢. Finally. Thx this was amazing 🎉
Thanks. Channel members get early access btw!! 😉
A beautiful transformation. Great job!
Good job fella, it looks great in person too! With the hot thing it could loosen the glue but that’s not something you’ll be contending with
Cheers mate. Yeah although the same adhesive was used on our laminate in the kitchen which does get hot pans on it, no issues with delamination so far....
Great job Keith, the end result looks fab - and I'm sure will be very durable.
Thanks Joe
It was a great project and it looks absolutely fantastic.
Thank you
Keith FAB. what about touch of delicate sanding and thumb touch up with some whitish something to camouflage join. 👍
What a stunning transformation! I wonder if the new style LVT plank flooring could be used in a similar way?
Get some brown paper and then use a hot iron on that edging. It will tidy it up
As I’m a floor layer you should’ve staggered the joint of mdf and altro then cold weld the joint Either type a if no gaps or type c if if you have gaps up to 2mm .but raw edges will curl in in time would of been better to is set to birch plywood
Super duper job on birch edges! Really good idea to keep cost down, the war has screwed us for birch :(
Good work, my only comment is if you had enough? Vinyl why wouldn’t you extend down to cover the edges, gives it a look of quartz worktop..
Smashing job, ingenious.
Beautiful work, Keith! The space looks fantastic there now! Nicely done!!! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Thanks, you too!
Very nice series and endresult!
It came out really nice, Keith!
What a transformation Keith, that is such a stylish but practical space now ! Given that it's not your primary food prep area I reckon the pros and cons of the vinyl flooring should work in your favour - might need to be careful cleaning up some paints as the textured surface may make it harder to get off any spills/staining !
What is great for me as a long time viewer and subscriber is seeing you apparently so comfortable and happy to take on a complicated project requiring many different skills, doing a great job in the process, thanks for the great channel Keith !
PS. What a shame the cable didn't just line up with that awkward join, having said that it's not obvious anyway !
Thank you!
Your video content is the very best on RUclips. I loved top counter top solution, very good 👍
Thank you!
Boiling water at 13:50 is only going to raise the pot temperature to about 100°C. Try it next time with a cast iron on high heat for like 5 minutes. The pan should get to like 300+°C lol.
Hmmm. Vinyl flooring for countertop. Ingenious! My only thoughts about the rough-ish, non-slip surface were that it might hold the cutting board, but be a bit harder to clean.
It's a utility room, where he washes his paint brushes out. So no need for a cutting board, as no food prep.
Great video. I have found other good uses for vinyl. My bathroom has some around sink as splash back, I recently built a chicken coop a run on top of a large raised bed in my garden. I got a off cut from local carpet shop for £9.99 I cannot remember size, I had seen of vids of vinyl glued to roosting coop floor for easy cleang, and it helps to stop places for red mites to hide, but it was enough to also cover the base of the run! under coop size120cm x 260cm .if I had used slabs it would have maybe been ten times the vinyl cost. some people may think it should be left a earth for chickens to scratch, but I don't want them to have wet dirty feet, or wet beding creating a smell offending my neighbours. also pen is clear roofed for same purpose keeping shavings bedding as dry as possible for me to burn bedding in my workshop wood burner great fuel litle to no smell and free to some extent the vinyl is just lay on top of earth loose, but cut slightly wider than run, so bends up at edges keeps it tight in place. its been in use for about 4 months now holding up to chickens claws so far!
Looks good, would never have thought to use vinyl flooring, cool!
Very creative way to do this, I like it a lot!
Great series of vids I’m hoping to apply some of my new found knowledge and ideas. I do wonder if heat might have a negative effect on the glue though.
Very nice end result. Well done!👍
Looks great! Loved the before and after. I've seen this type of vinil flooring used in walls but never as countertop. They used some teimming in the perimeter to keep it in place too, besides the glue, I guess vertical placing requieres more strenght.
I really like the idea of using it on walls!
Brilliant idea! I'm almost getting the urge to go sort out our utility room now!
Worktops look great 👍
Really nice work 👏🏼👏🏼
Can I ask where you get your electric brand from?
Looks good Keith, l enjoy your content 👍
That turned out great. I really like that you are thrifty !
great job Keith
Thank you Debbie
That looks fantadtic. Great job.
the dulling of the tools is due to the heat that gets created! but the choice u made is excellent!
i always work with these type of materials, aplying heat to is makes is really easy to cut with a hookblade( for the next project;] )
the pvc flooring is so hardwearing, simaliar types to what u got get a 15 year warranty in commerial use so yea !
next time when cutting are working on it, just use a torch heat it up and ull see that its a breezen on knifes and other tools!
great job. Bang on budget 👍
Another thought (maybe makes you angry after finishing, sorry): the wall behind the covering could easily fit a cable -> so installing another socket just under the top plate for the washer would have saved you from a visible cable. Maybe there are different regulations, but in Jerry-land it would be okay over here.
Hindsight adding another socket below behind the washer would have been a good shout.
I wasn't sure if it was allowed with regulations
Looks cracking 👍🏼
Interesting little project, Keith. Although... "little" ?? You've done quite a lot for this kitchenroom!
Yeah it seemed to go on and on!
The best price for the Festool Domino is 784 gbp
Birch Plywood 2440mm x 1220mm (8' x 4') BB/BB Grade from Latvia/Russia is £107.40 per sheet Inc Vat, excluding delivery. Best price online. Nobody is offering AA/AA, A+, or A grade boards.
Inflation in the UK is much higher than the US, but I'm sure nobody there would buy any sheet material where a lot of 10 sheets could buy a Festool Domino and a lifetime of domino's to boot. 20 sheets and you could buy 2.
It's madness isn't it
The rough bits in the vinyl are probably carborundum; hence why it’s trashed your blades/bits.
nice work! looks so much better Keith!!
Thank you!
Good job on the worktops. If it turns out afterwards that you would like a smoother worktop, you could perhaps apply a layer of varnish?
Hmm, I wonder if it would adhere well? Not sure
@@RagnBoneBrown , i think (i can be wrong) that you should treat the worktops as plastic, and use primer and varnisch for plastic, but you can try it out on some leftovers first to be sure. Grtz
Great job done and smooth video style. I'll definitely be on the lookout for cheap leftover vinyl but you might have just doubled its price!
So, replacing the blunt tools and blades cost almost as much (money and extended effort) as just going for the right material in the first place?
Another brilliant video, really interesting ideas too.
Thank you