I want to install laminate (formica,etc) over my existing kitchen
counters.
1- Is this OK?
2- How do I prepare surface and how do I install?

I did this to an old table I used in the shop.

1 - belt sand the existing formica.
2 - wipe off.
3 - mount new formica like you normally would

So far - Ive had no problems and its been like3 years.


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I want to install laminate (formica,etc) over my existing kitchen
counters.
1- Is this OK?
2- How do I prepare surface and how do I install?

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"Rob V" wrote:

I did this to an old table I used in the shop.

1 - belt sand the existing formica.
2 - wipe off.
3 - mount new formica like you normally would

So far - Ive had no problems and its been like3 years.

Yep that's the way it's done. The OP needs to make sure the existing
formica is solid on its substrate first - then go at it like you did.
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I redid our kitchen counters about six months ago by just going over the
old stuff. I was lucky in that the front edge was not rounded over but
was a piece of oak with a beveled top edge.

I looked on formica.com and also on the hgtv web page and read a bit and
then proceeded by rough sanding and cleaning the old top and then gluing
as normal. The extra formica edge does not even show.

Saved hundreds over buying a new top.

Give it a go.

RonT