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How do I maintain and care for laminate worktops?

The beauty of laminate surfaces is that they are incredibly easy to maintain. Once installed, they simply require occasional cleaning with warm soapy water and soft cloth. We advise against using an abrasive sponge or scourer, as this can scratch the surface.

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How do I maintain and care for laminate worktops?

Laminate Vs Real Wood Worksurfaces: What’s The Difference?

Both laminate and real wood worksurfaces provide a number of benefits; as such, when choosing between the two, much of the decision-making process will be informed by personal preference and lifestyle.

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Laminate Vs Real Wood Worksurfaces: What’s The Difference?

How do I cut wooden kitchen worktops to accommodate a sink with drainer?

It is certainly possible to create a cut-out for a sink with drainer at home, and fortunately timber work surfaces are one of the easiest materials to cut. If you have any prior experience of using wood-cutting equipment and tools, the process should be relatively easy.

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How do I cut wooden kitchen worktops to accommodate a sink with drainer?

Choosing Solid Wood Work Surfaces for Bathrooms

Whilst you may think that solid wood isn’t the ideal surface for high-moisture settings such as bathrooms, with the right care and maintenance timber worktops not only look stunning but can also provide many years of joy.

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Choosing Solid Wood Work Surfaces for Bathrooms

Undermounted Sinks: A Worktop Express® Nutshell Guide

When planning your kitchen it’s easy to be overwhelmed by the amount of choice. Enter the Worktop Express® Nutshell Guide! In this sink series we seek to provide an accessible run down of the options, from overmounted to undermounted and more. There are plenty of sinks that are suitable for a solid wood worktop; our bespoke cutting service can make the necessary cut-out exactly to your requirements, so that’s one job off the list! The difficult part is deciding which sink to go for.

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Undermounted Sinks: A Worktop Express® Nutshell Guide

What is a “1.5 bowl” sink?

Today’s ‘Question of the Week’ comes from Ellen in Oxford, who is interested in incorporating our real wood worktop surfaces into her kitchen along with one of the sinks in our collection, but wants to know what we mean by a 1.5 bowl sink.

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What is a “1.5 bowl” sink?

How close to my undermounted sink should I make a tap hole on hardwood kitchen worktops?

When specifying the position of tap holes on your worktop design, we recommend that the tap hole’s centre is 60mm from the rear of the sink, though an exact measurement would be dictated by the width of the lip around the top edge of the undermounted sink. If you are ordering your sink from Worktop Express, you will find that our undermounted sinks generally have a lip of around 25mm.

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How close to my undermounted sink should I make a tap hole on hardwood kitchen worktops?

Best Kitchen Worktops for Accompanying Belfast Sinks

Belfast sinks are a popular choice for homes featuring our kitchen worktops, as their design is perfectly suited to the classic stylings of a wooden kitchen. We have a wide range of kitchen sinks on our website, including two standard single-bowl Belfast sinks, and two double bowl models.

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Best Kitchen Worktops for Accompanying Belfast Sinks

What are deck-mounted taps?

All of our taps can be described as deck-mounted. This means that they can be installed on your worktop, rather than the wall, and are also described as ‘surface-mounted’. Deck-mounted taps can sometimes be fixed directly to the sink itself, if the sink has been equipped with a tap hole.

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What are deck-mounted taps?

Can I use timber worktops safely around a kitchen sink?

That’s a question we’ve been asked on occasion before; but we can assure you that, with the right maintenance routine, wooden worktops should never succumb to moisture-related issues.

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Can I use timber worktops safely around a kitchen sink?