[Greenbuilding] Counters
Bobbi Chukran
bobbi at bobbichukran.com
Wed Jul 27 20:04:08 CDT 2011
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.
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