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On Wed, 19 May 2010 16:12:07 -0700 (PDT), mike
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On May 19, 3:58 pm, aemeijers wrote:

Very few kitchens in the last 40 years have field-applied formica. Very
few people can nail UP inside a base cabinet. If not screws, countertop
is most likely glued down with construction adhesive.

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aem sends...

There are plenty of houses that are more than 40 years old.

And a LOT of the over 40 year old kitchens were also built with
post-formed formica screwed on from below. When you get to about 45
years you are starting to get into the built-in-place douglas fir
plywood cabinets that are glued and screwed, non-salvageable and not
worth salvaging stuff - but the vast majority of those have been
replaced at least once already. Go back 50 or more years and you get
the built-in-place solid lumber stuff - stick-built face-frame with
frame and panel doors in a good number of houses - but again, the vast
majority of those have been ripped out over the last 20 or more years.
- and they are not worth salvaging either, generally speaking. I DO
have a roughly 60 year old kitchen cabinet in my garage as a workbench
- a stick-framed, built-in -place cabinet that had a nailed down
(grouted, ceramic tiled plywood) countertop that lifted off relatively
easily with a small crow-bar.



My kitchen (1966) has built in place Birch Plywood cabinets with Formica
over 3/4" Particle Board counters done onsite...Formica glued to the drywall
all the way to the bottom of the uppers with crome trim on exposed edges and
between counter and backsplash..LOL.....Everything is glued and nailed
except the countertop which is screwed to cleats on the inside of the
cabinets..Nice job too....Not gonna be salvageable I think...Sucks too as I
could use them in the new garage when we get to the kitchen faze of the
reno.......