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Thread: Red Gum benchtops
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10th February 2002, 08:44 AM #1shane cloak Guest
Red Gum benchtops
I hear that red gum is an unstable wood, and yet I want to install red gum benchtops in my new kitchen. Does anyone have the knowledge to pass on to me, so I can properly install them without the tops "cupping or warping" at a
later date?
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10th February 2002, 12:04 PM #2
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Keep the thickness of the top to 25mm or less and preferably laminate the top up out of narrow strips no more than 90mm wide. This way most of the tension has already been relieved from the timber and you won't encounter the stresses that are on larger pieces like slabs, etc.
Hope this helps.
Cheers - Neil
Preferably leave the redgum for stumps and fence posts etc and use something else for the benchtops.......... Sorry Shane, I'm not a big fan of redgum in furniture and benchtops. Just one of my many quirks.
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15th February 2002, 07:42 PM #3
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Sorry for the late reply but I just had to have a say about this topic.
If you have to have red gum bench tops, then make very sure that the timber is very dry. I've heard one story that would make your hair curl; Ever seen a new kitchen self destruct? If the red gum moves, and it will, it will take anything its attached to with it. Be very careful mate, red gums' got a very stubbon mind of its own.Harry
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