How to put Formica or HPL on a galley worktop - well, the way I do it, at least! This is the story of the building of a Jay Benford designed, 31.8ft, junk sc...

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hi this week's gonna be all about one

thing in particular so a little bit

unusual in that respect but um it's

gonna be all about puttin HPL or Formica

laminate on the galley and hence

worktops and it's something I like to

use because it's nice and easy to fit

and relatively cheap and it's hardware

in last a long time as an offcut the

staff is sort of the one of charge

Naziism as you see a blue grazer the

color i'll say chosen but actually here

in germany this stuff is very hard to

get hold of or at least that was my

experience and in fact i had to order

this i bought this on ebay from a

supplier in scotland who shipped it out

to me a roll made before all big roll of

the stuff enough to do both the worktops

and have a bit left over so obviously

you've got various options of what you

want to put on your work tops and

there's a two pack epoxy that you can

pour over there there you could just

have varnish would you could tirely all

over other people thrown on tiles in a

boat life funds I say a fine Formica or

the like perfect

after this application if that's where

you're going first choice of course

first decision is how to cap the

staffing and in the past I've always

used a Stanley knife which is one of

these things from

clothes on that carry I don't know what

they called around the world

I call that Stanley knife you may call

it something different but this is the

wrong blade that's a carpet cutting

blade you need their normal straight

blade they can look very nicely involves

going over it a few times till it all

the way through equally if you use you

know yo what I call an exacto knife and

I know elsewhere is called a box cutter

no idea what our Australian friends

would run over a few times cuts it but

the danger you do have two doctors both

dangers involve slipping if you slip

obviously you using a straight edge of

some sort bigger than that one

you run along the furnace but if it's

slick you end up scratching you Oh Myka

other danger of course is to slip and

embed it in your hand so I wanted to

find and look into other ways of cutting

it this is why I've always done it in

the past below it with a Stanley and it

does come out fine but look at YouTube

that marvelous resource and I see people

cut them on table saws and with scissors

and they got me thinking and so I

decided but firstly my table saw this

there's quite a big gap around the blade

and I didn't think that would be ideal

this size fits nicely close but that's

oh it's got a bit of a gap this I didn't

think it'd be ideal for cutting such a

thin laminate so so I decided to give it

a go with the little boss saw that

you've seen me using a million times and

it cut quite well first of all cut it

from the from the top that the actual

finished service it does trip a little

bit in fact if you're getting close to

their Kerry you can see a bit that's

particularly bad from cut from the top

so then we try and turn that over on

cutting it from the bottom which gives

you much cleaner finish that's fine

that's nice a bit of a weird noise and

then after that I went for scissors and

I look for scissors so in the end I went

for a combination of this

boss saw and scissors what you gotta

remember is that you

you've wonder cut obviously length has

gotta be kept correctly but the width or

anything is overhanging or coming up to

an overhanging edge you want to cut too

big so you glue it on too big and then

you trim it off in position so the fact

that that is a big chip to the edge it

didn't matter because we cut me a good

two centimeters an inch even too big and

that bill to be trimming off later so

how they are careful involves a lot of

careful measuring marking out and trying

it in position

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so earlier by the finished product

finished but then you're just gotta cut

to the right size in its job is to glue

it on and you glue it on with the

contact of these it'll I think you can

use just about any contact adhesive I

chose either look around different blues

and then you some use this stuff is this

singer than I use EMS polymer sealant

that I use it's from this company German

company aqua color being German it must

be Vito and it's industrial-strength

that's made for industrial applications

and then I saw that they make a contact

adhesives or because I've been very

impressed for that ms polymer Ceylon and

bondings see them I thought I'd use the

same company people contact adhesive

well no info funny this is simple enough

isn't it contacted these is always the

same you put it on both sides you put it

on with a brush or a roller or even a

spreading any fusion review something

like that spreaded Roger or whatever put

it on both surfaces leave it until it's

did its tack free and then you've got a

position your two surfaces and she's

obviously the auto for my girl and you

would in exactly the right place once

it's down you can't move it around so

the trick there is to put some thin

pieces of wood underneath position it

and then just pull the battens out and

speak the mighty bit down as you go

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once you got it down remember you've cut

all of these edges overhanging and then

just cut oh yeah I then use a box cutter

exacto knife to trim up those edges

finish it off with a sandpaper and it

comes out perfect

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if you've got the holes in your boat top

like this one here just just you know is

enough stick before wake up all over the

hole and then get in there I actually

ran around loosely with a jigsaw I got

it sort of stuck a knife through it but

jigsaw in running around rough through

the jigsaw and then just trimmed it up

with it with the knife as the same as

the France comes out lovely it starts to

look quite good

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and then as you can see the final state

start to get the fiddles around which

which highs all of that edge except for

the wipeout corners to get that cleaned

up a bit of varnish on the corners but

all of the edges are hidden underneath

fiddles won't be around here fiddles as

well once I've got this a bit tired to

come up to the top so almost all the

edges here in and the fiddle overlaps

onto the Formica surface so there's no

danger or anything get under there and

lifting it off if that were possible and

you've got a good hard-wearing cheap

work top

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and there you have it that's the way I

do it you know there are more technical

more professional what is it doing it no

doubt but in a way it's kind of in

keeping with the Builder of this boat is

simple and effective we are using some

fairly ordinary and and low-tech tours

or sort of tools that everybody has

around thanks for watching

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as the G go right up oh she was kissed

by this

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