[Greenbuilding] Counters

[Bobbi Chukran]

OK, what I'm calling "butcherblock" isn't end grain wood.  It's  
strips of wood glued up to make a long slab.  Everybody seems to call  
that butcherblock--that's what the lumber yards call it, and the  
generic term has become fairly common, so that's what I call it.   
Yeah, I know it's not the same as the real butcher blocks.

I can clean my wooden countertops much easier than I ever could tile  
or other surfaces.

For anyone who wants to know, this is the stuff we have on our  
current kitchen counters:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20057397

It also comes in beech and birch.

FWIW,

bobbi c.


On Jul 27, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Corwyn wrote:
> That said, I wouldn't make a counter out of it.  Check out the iron  
> strapping that holds together traditional butcher blocks.  As a  
> counter top it can't be brought somewhere to be well cleaned, or  
> resurfaced.  It will be thicker than it needs to be for most uses.   
> It will acquire that quaint shape, which will make rolling out pie  
> crust on it impossible.