Laminated kitchen Worktops
Laminated kitchen worktops are relatively easy to work with and with the superb quality of prints available today any of the natural materials available can be replicated at a fraction of the cost of the real thing.
Laminated kitchen worktops also have the distinct advantage of being totally impervious to moisture on the horizontal surface, although of course care must be taken at joints and edges.
Post-formed worktops where the laminate wraps around the rolled front edge make the moisture resistance even better.
The tools that you will need to cut your own laminated kitchen worktops to size from full boards are:
An electric circular saw, an electric jig saw and an electric router. You'll also find a straight edge, a spirit level or two, a T square, a hand saw, laminate trimmer/file and a 10mm spanner to tighten up any jointing bolts also very useful. Finally if you are going to need to cut and "Butt & Scribed" joints in your laminated kitchen worktops you'll need to hire a router jig.
You'll also need decent hand working skills to work with the above tools and above all an acute awareness of the dangers of using the electric tools listed, all of which can and do cause fatal injuries.
You might well consider leaving it to the experts and either buy your laminated kitchen worktops exactly cut to size to your specifications from Co Tops or employ your own skilled kitchen fitter to undertake the task.