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Originally Posted by u crank
From the photos FK your counter top is the standard post-formed type. Particle board substrate covered with laminate. It is probably attached to your cabinet with screws through those built up parts around the edges. This type of counter top is not really strong and any heavy jacking could break it or lift it off the cabs. If I was doing this fix I would remove the top, flip it over and put the desired piece in, glued and screwed, then put it back on.
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But but but but my breadbox is already sitting on it.
Also, that sounds like a two person or even three person job. Although if I loosened the screws at each end, that might give me enough slack across the entire counter to raise and hold up the middle long enough to get something in there to brace it. If nothing else it would make getting any shims in a lot easier.
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Originally Posted by Wolferz
Hopefully the Frau wouldn't stick a jack in there and just crank it till it broke.
She's brighter than that.   |
Oh, you'd be surprised. I've done some pretty stupid things over the years when it came to repairs around the ol' homestead.
But then that was before I had such wonderful online resources, and of course I didn't actually OWN the homestead at the time.
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Your murdered weeds will eventually desiccate to the point of crumbling into dust.
If you don't wish to wait, get a crack hoe.
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A crack hoe? I don't want to pimp my patio, just get rid of the weeds.
But seriously, folks... it's a bricked surface, so I can't hoe anything. The weeds are coming up in the spaces between the bricks. No doubt it will be a perennial problem during growing season, so I may spring for the Ortho thingy with the hose and wand so I can douse them without too much bending and scraping. The first bottle I got ran out when I was only about halfway done with the whole area so I'll have to buy some more anyway.