Frank: Now we're going to measure and cut our benchtop.
The equipment we've got here to help us out with that include our circular saw for cutting
the top itself.
We've got a long spirit level which we're going to use as a straight edge, some clamps
to also assist us when doing the straight edge for the cutting, tape measure, some masking
tape which will help protect the laminate surface of the bench top, obviously a pencil
to help us mark it out, and one of the most important things is our PPE, our safety equipment.
We've got earmuffs in our protection when we're using any powered saws.
Let's kick this off and get it going.
I've got my good friend Mark who'll give me a hand.
So first thing we need to do is actually measure from the wall to what our overhang is going
to be and in this case it's going to be 40 millimeters.
We now need to measure how much we need to cut off and we will cut that off from the
wall end of the benchtop.
So we'll do that now.
So that includes my 40 millimeter overhang, so I measure from the other end of the bench
and that's how I know how much I've got to cut off from the wall end of the bench.
So 495, that's what we need to cut off from that wall end.
So I can measure that out now.
Mark: Okay, now we've marked and transferred the lines over here.
I'm actually taping up over that line, because what we're doing, we came from the other side
but the tape will prevent the saw blade from doing the chipping edge, so we have a nice
clean edge.
Now we're in each of it.
The reason we've turned it upside down as I said the laminate will get damaged.
Because of the saw tooth you can see, it's actually rotating that way is coming up into
it which means it's coming through not the opposite way and then pushing it out again.
So that gives it a nice clean edge, having the tape there is just a preventative.
We now have our points of reference where we've transferred those figures across for
this end.
Using our level as a straight edge, there's our cap line.
Frank: We're going to cut the excess part of our benchtop now.
When we're cutting the benchtop and we're using a saw, we've got to remember that there
is a space or a distance between the edge of the saw blade and the edge of the straight
part of our saw base.
So we need to measure that because that's then the distance that we place our straight
edge away from our cutting line.
So we'll measure that gap on our saw first.
And in this particular case on this saw it's 33 millimeters.
So that's the space I need to have between my cutting line and the edge of my straight
edge.
So I'll mark that out, 33 millimeters.
So remembering in this particular saw the saw I'm using it is 33 millimeters, so the
saw you use may be a different measurements so you need to take that into account.
So I've marked that off and again we'll use a nice long straight spirit level bringing
that up to those marks I've just made.
This is going to give us a nice parallel cut.
So I'll get Mark to hang on to the waste material.
We call it waste, which is the part we're cutting off while I cut it.
And of course before we do anything with our powered saw, we need to make sure our safety
gear is on.
In this case dust mask because of the dust that's generated, eye protection and ear protection.
So now what we'll do is flip the bench top over and spin it around and offer it back
up into the wall.
Tape measure and we'll double check.
I've got 20 millimeters there and there and 20 millimeters there which is what we're after.
Okay, that's that benchtop measured and cut to size.