Tiles For Kitchen Cabinet Top?

[spearhawk 1]

Hi all,

For the kitchen cabinet top, typically I see that people are using solid top, laminate, granite, etc...

But I have seen people using tiles to lay on the kitchen cabinet top before. Any idea how does this work? Do they lay a concrete cement top, and then lay tiles over it? Something like the stove support?

Any idea how much they cost per feet run?

Thanks! =)

[wtc 0]

Hi all,

For the kitchen cabinet top, typically I see that people are using solid top, laminate, granite, etc...

But I have seen people using tiles to lay on the kitchen cabinet top before. Any idea how does this work? Do they lay a concrete cement top, and then lay tiles over it? Something like the stove support?

Any idea how much they cost per feet run?

Thanks! =)

Don't know how much it cost but it's not durable. During my flat hunting, I had seen kitchen top with tiles and many of them has problem in the sink area. For lots of them, the wood has rotted and the sink were sagging and tiles popping up due to that.

[freddyprince 0]

doing tile as table top use to be very popular last time, but botttom cabinet are build of concrete with hollow block.

nowadays very seldom got ppl do it this way liao. commonly ppl use wood cabinet and mound thier sink which may cause the wood to rot over a period of usage. but come to durable, definately the concrete one will be more lasting than wood. my current cabinet olso those tile surface type, use for 15 years le still very solid, except for that area i use to cut meat and veg got damage to the tile. hehe

thats why my new place my sink area is olso build using concrete.

[spearhawk 1]

doing tile as table top use to be very popular last time, but botttom cabinet are build of concrete with hollow block.

nowadays very seldom got ppl do it this way liao. commonly ppl use wood cabinet and mound thier sink which may cause the wood to rot over a period of usage. but come to durable, definately the concrete one will be more lasting than wood. my current cabinet olso those tile surface type, use for 15 years le still very solid, except for that area i use to cut meat and veg got damage to the tile. hehe

thats why my new place my sink area is olso build using concrete.

any idea how much they charge then? Is it cheaper than using solid top, laminate, granite, etc...?

[trees 0]

any idea how much they charge then? Is it cheaper than using solid top, laminate, granite, etc...?

last time alot ppl using suchway , by laying solid plywood top, then put glue to stick tiles on top..not lasting as water will go in.. not cheap leh..think you better consider solid/granite top

[LittleDevil 0]

My main concern with using tiles as kitchen counter top is that it is extremely difficult to clean the grout i.e. gaps betwen the tiles. With all the cooking and washing, the grout will eventually accumulate dirts and moulds that is impossible to remove. My parents used to have those in the past.