My wife is thinking of using Formica about 18″x40″ as a backsplash behind the stand alone cooktop. The cabinet guy wondered if it would withstand the heat. Cooktop placement would be acording to manuf. specs.
Has anyone ever had any problems with formica/heat?
CRF
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If you keep the formica far enough away from the heating element, it should be ok. Follow the cooktop mfgr specs for clearance to a vertical surface.
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I haven't ever used it but I have torn out about a dozen of them. No reason why they wont work, the heat on the back wall isn't that intense.
Another option is stainless steal, would look good if you had ss appliances.
Doug
Formica makes a "stainless steel" formica that looks good, that is what we are thinking.
We've had ours installed since the house was built in 1985, and it is as good now as it was then. Not that we would choose it again. The problem is finding decent edging. The builder installed aluminum edging that looks 50's retro. Some day I'll rip it out and put in tile. The counters will have to be changed first. The sink and faucet will need to go, and then there's the lighting...
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I've done a couple like yours, but milled a piece of wood trim for the edge.
Round over all four egdes of a 3/4" stock then rip the two edges off, leaving enough stock to safetly plow a rabbet down the middle of sawn edge. The rabbet only needs to be about 1/4" deep and 1/2" wide if you make your rip 3/4" or so. Then rip the piece right down the middle of the rabbet. That will give you two piece of very low profile shoe molding with a shallow rabbet on the back of the square edge. The new molding will fit nicely over the raw edge of the laminated splash.
The other method is to leave out the rabbet and just rip the rounded over edge to crate a low profile 1/4 round. This is then glued and butted to the exposed edges of the splash. You might need to tweak the thickness with a low angle bock plane to get it the exact thickness of the splash material. Paint or stain dending on weather you want to accent or loose the edge treatment.