Ralphie ★ Posted January 8, 2017 Share #1 Posted January 8, 2017 Our 1986 builder grade Formica countertops are starting to show some wear. This is not good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caretaker Posted January 8, 2017 Share #2 Posted January 8, 2017 It's called patina. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted January 8, 2017 Share #3 Posted January 8, 2017 How expensive can new "builders grade" tops be. Good for another 30 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team scooter Posted January 8, 2017 Share #4 Posted January 8, 2017 Whenever we go to our Son's house, I can never get used to their hard granite counter tops. After living five decades with Formica, to me a coffee cup is supposed to make a certain quiet comforting sound when you set it down. Not a loud CLANK noise. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted January 8, 2017 Share #5 Posted January 8, 2017 By the way, old builders grade counter tops make good workbenches on a couple of old base cabinets. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 8, 2017 Author Share #6 Posted January 8, 2017 37 minutes ago, maddmaxx said: How expensive can new "builders grade" tops be. Good for another 30 years. Cmon, you know wimmin! Mrs. MK has already been making noises aboot replacing our perfectly good 1986 oak builder's grade cabinets! I like Caretaker's answer. I do loves me some patina. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far ★ Posted January 8, 2017 Share #7 Posted January 8, 2017 Quote Dammit! Nothing lasts more than 30 years any more! And how old are you?? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted January 8, 2017 Share #8 Posted January 8, 2017 A buddy of mine used to make it down to West Virginia once a year to hunt at an old family friends place, way back in the woods, think moonshiners. The front porch was gradually falling off the house, every year it got a little worse, ended up with a couple planks spanning the rotted out floor. So they show up for the annual hunt and get together, and there's a pile of fresh cut lumber by the porch. My buddy says " fixin up the porch, Peck? " Peck gives him a WTF look and says " gunna build a shed, I've got a porch" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post team scooter Posted January 8, 2017 Popular Post Share #9 Posted January 8, 2017 7 hours ago, Ralph T. Mooseknuckle said: I like Caretaker's answer. I do loves me some patina. Whenever our kids point out that we need to live in the present day and I'm too cheap to replace our worn countertops, I'll politely point out. This was were you watched your wife slice veggies last July 4th without a cutting board and said nothing. This was where your kids were banging a heavy metal tonka truck on the counter for several minutes before you finally did say something. And this was where you banged the corner off when you were moving your furniture out fifteen years ago, then you copped an attitude when I said something. Maybe I shouldn't be the one buying your mother new countertops. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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