Joining / Cutting granite worktops.

Someone wrote:

1. Where two pieces of granite join (in a straight run),

does this join need to be immediately above where two floor cupboards meet underneath it (to provide double carcass wall

thickness of support to join in worktop) or is it a case of great if you can acheive this, but don’t worry too much about it

if you can’t ?

For strength purposes this is the best location and I would advise you do

this.

Someone wrote:

2. Looking to have a 90cm hob hole cut-out out of the middle of a 2m piece of granite (20mm

thick) so will be approx 55cm of solid granite either side of the hole, with two thin granite bridges of about 7cm thick each

joing them. I’m worried these may be too thin and likley to break when the granite is being carried / fitted. Any views on

this please ?

This is always going to be a more vulnerable place than elsewhere in the kitchen and

I have in the past witnessed granite infills fitted. Trouble is they look too obvious and the joints remain vulnerable. In

addition they are certainly not pleasing to the eye.
So long as there is sufficient support and you apply sufficient

adhesive in both areas front and rear, then a single slab with a cut-out is to be the preferred method here.

Good

luck.