{"id":41466,"date":"2021-01-15T16:21:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T16:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.affordablegranite.co.uk\/?p=41466"},"modified":"2021-04-14T09:09:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T08:09:46","slug":"templating-granite-worktops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.affordablegranite.co.uk\/templating-granite-worktops\/","title":{"rendered":"TEMPLATING FOR GRANITE WORKTOPS: WHAT IS A TEMPLATE?"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Templating granite kitchen worktops: What is a template?” google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”]
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<\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”instalation-page quartz_grid_effect”][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]When I first started working at Affordable Granite there were many things that I needed to learn. The most mysterious and new to my ears was the whole idea of templating. It took me a long time to get my head around the mysteries of templating and of the workflow from template to installation. Since then my experience has been that templating is also a great mystery to our customers. We all know what it’s like when tradespeople almost sneer at our lack of knowledge; we don’t want to be like that. So here is the clearest explanation we can do about templating: what is a template and why is it important?<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_single_image image=”35968″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]\n

Your dream kitchen with granite worktops – how to make the dream a reality?<\/i><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]

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<\/div>[vc_single_image image=”40166″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”4\/6″][vc_column_text]Planned kitchens and actually constructed kitchens are not the same thing. The measurements and diagrams on which we base our quotations are NEVER absolutely true to what is actually built – and certainly not at the kind of accuracy which is needed for the worktop fit to be acceptable. Kitchens aren’t square, kitchen units aren’t perfect…. nothing is precise.<\/p>\n

But our fitting needs to be. For a kitchen wall to be only 5mm out of true along its length would be unusually good, and you would never notice the “error” without measuring it. Kitchen units are often placed square to each other, so in a wonky kitchen there may be a bit of a gap opening behind them at one end of the run. Again, no big problem. But if a kitchen worktop with a 10mm overhang follows that wall and has a 5mm variation in the overhang along its length, it will look seriously horrible. And if the gap at the back varies by 5mm, and there is no upstand, there may be a problem when filling or tiling.<\/p>\n

This is why we never manufacture from customers’ initial measurements. Taking measurements – in fact making physical or virtual mock-ups of the worktops – is what we call templating. It is the hinge between our quote and sale process on the one hand, and the manufacture and fitting of your worktops on the other. It is at the very heart of our process, and will define the look of your kitchen. The templater carries tremendous responsibility; errors here are frighteningly expensive, while a really good template makes the fitters’ job far easier.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner]

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<\/div>[vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Templating granite kitchen worktops: Traditional, physical, templates” google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”]
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<\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”instalation-page quartz_grid_effect”][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]Down through the years, most granite worktop companies have used corrugated plastic sheeting, such as Correx\u00ae, to make physical templates. Such templates have the advantage that they can be offered up to the job area when made to double check them, and can also be annotated. On the other hand, they can easily be damaged or even lost.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”33433″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”instalation-page quartz_grid_effect”][vc_column]
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<\/div>[vc_column_text]The biggest benefit of the physical template is seen with big-patterned stones. Where matching of veins is critical, it is far easier to visualise what is going on when we can put physical templates on the slabs. Many customers want to be able to guide us with their vision of how the stone should be used – “We would like to lose that dark bit”, “Can we have the sparkly crystal patch in the middle of the island?” etc. You can see that here, as Ben, our Workshop Manager works with a customer to help them realise their dream granite worktops in Belvedere Leather.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]
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