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I would like to change the worktop in my bathroom.
I have to remove the old laminate one to put in a cistern that doesn't take 3 flushes to get rid of a poo.
The laminate has started to delaminate a bit due to water, and it may get damaged on removal due to the way it sits under the sink etc.
A slate one would be nicer and match the floor tiles, but they seem pretty expensive. The worktop isn't very big (2000x330) but has a few cutouts required, it isn't just rectangular.
Is there anything between real stone and laminate?
A slate one would be nicer and match the floor tiles, but they seem pretty expensive.
give Glasgow Architectural Salvage a call - there's a guy there who cuts old snooker table beds to size
Tiles. Slate looks ones would be pretty indistinguishable from the real thing.
Solid wood?
Acrylic?
Corian?
All pretty expensive though.
Are snooker table beds made of slate?
FWIW I would like it to look like slate.
The bathroom has white tiles all round, a white bath with white panel and slate effect floor tiles, so I don't want to add another colour/texture
Are snooker table beds made of slate?
Why yes....yes they are.
Well, that is something I never knew about.
I will call the man in Glasgow
If the price suits you could probably take the old bit of laminate to them as a template
That was my thought too
Might be cheaper to adjust your diet a bit to avoid production of the three flushers?
There are people in every part of the country who can saw stone or slate to your design, in Lancashire we have Slate Age: https://www.slateage.com/ who have supplied us with bathroom shelves in a variety of stones and slates in our last two houses.
A friend of ours just had her “man” construct a bit of formwork and filled it with a plasticised cement mix. Then polished it.
Looks great. And v cheap.
I'd make a shelf out of thick ply and stick the same tiles as you have on the floor to it.
my next project is building a shelf for a concealed cistern....I'm going to be using 18mm ply, with some left over backer board, tile the top the same as the wall tiles, use left over trim for the top of the tile edge and some left over mosaic tiles for the rest of the edge. silicon in place. job done.
Replacing your cistern is not necessary. Alter the flush volume on your flush valve or replace it with a better one.
(2000×330)
That's going to weigh a fair bit in natural stone.
You could also try your local granite supplier. We had a top cut for a vanity unit which cost £120 and looks great.
I have some large ( 300mm x 600mm) fake slate tiles for my hearth. They look fine and would work well in a bathroom.
That’s going to weigh a fair bit in natural stone.
snooker table beds are pretty slim though - so are manageable at that size. (Having carried a whole kitchen's worth cut into worktops up to a top-floor tenement)