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Drawer Glides

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flatcoat2004

A related question - I am having my soapstone installed on Wednesday. Are there similar issues with drawer glides for soapstone dust ? I assume they will be cutting at least the faucet hole on-site. For soapstone installs, is it recommended to have drawers in or out ? If out, how do you protect the drawer glides ?

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Reply to: A related question - I am having my soapstone installed on Wednesday. Are there similar issues with drawer glides for soapstone dust ? I assume they will be cutting at least the faucet hole on-site. For soapstone installs, is it recommended to have drawers in or out ? If out, how do you protect the drawer glides ?

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s m

J Bank, below is a post that I wrote 6 months ago when I refinished my soapstone: I have been dealing with very shiny soapstone too. After reading through some old threads I ordered a Diamond hand polishing pad (grit 120) from amazon and have been hand sanding my counters. Original finish, extremely smooth and shiny. Only mineral oil had been used on them: After sanding: After applying enhancing sealant (I know that this is controversial but I did some tests and decided that it didn't hurt to try it for a while since I know that I can sand it off if I do not like it. The mineral oil and waxes that I tried took too many applications and care for my preference and leaving it light was a mess, grease marks were a beast. The sealant did not make them shiny.) The hand sanding did work my arm a bit but it really was not too difficult, even with this soapstone being one of the harder varieties. I would suggest using a spray bottle of water to wet the area before you sand as it keeps the dust down. Diamond sanding pads are able to sand wet. I also tried an orbital sander but only bought silicon carbide wet/dry sanding pads and they don't work great, they really need to be diamond.

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Reply to: J Bank, below is a post that I wrote 6 months ago when I refinished my soapstone: I have been dealing with very shiny soapstone too. After reading through some old threads I ordered a Diamond hand polishing pad (grit 120) from amazon and have been hand sanding my counters. Original finish, extremely smooth and shiny. Only mineral oil had been used on them: After sanding: After applying enhancing sealant (I know that this is controversial but I did some tests and decided that it didn't hurt to try it for a while since I know that I can sand it off if I do not like it. The mineral oil and waxes that I tried took too many applications and care for my preference and leaving it light was a mess, grease marks were a beast. The sealant did not make them shiny.) The hand sanding did work my arm a bit but it really was not too difficult, even with this soapstone being one of the harder varieties. I would suggest using a spray bottle of water to wet the area before you sand as it keeps the dust down. Diamond sanding pads are able to sand wet. I also tried an orbital sander but only bought silicon carbide wet/dry sanding pads and they don't work great, they really need to be diamond.

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remodel1958

Our granite was installed yesterday. We had all the drawers taken out and taped the slides with blue painter's tape and also taped heavy paper over the fronts of the lower cabinets. All cutting was down outside my house except for the 4 holes at the sink (faucets, airswitch, etc) For those they had a nifty gadget (like the rubber from a plunger) sitting on the granite where the hole was to be drilled and filled it with water before drilling. Took them 5 minutes to make the holes. When we removed all the tape and paper (praying to the TKO gods) we found....NO DUST. Couldn't be more relieved! Good luck with your install.

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Reply to: Our granite was installed yesterday. We had all the drawers taken out and taped the slides with blue painter's tape and also taped heavy paper over the fronts of the lower cabinets. All cutting was down outside my house except for the 4 holes at the sink (faucets, airswitch, etc) For those they had a nifty gadget (like the rubber from a plunger) sitting on the granite where the hole was to be drilled and filled it with water before drilling. Took them 5 minutes to make the holes. When we removed all the tape and paper (praying to the TKO gods) we found....NO DUST. Couldn't be more relieved! Good luck with your install.

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waime54

oohhh, maybe I don't understand this process afterall. If the granite is cut outside and there are drawers sitting on the gliders and a subtop on, how would any granite dust get into the sliders?? How does one tape anyhow, you taking out all the drawers? How about if I cover all the base cabs with plastic or something..??

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Reply to: oohhh, maybe I don't understand this process afterall. If the granite is cut outside and there are drawers sitting on the gliders and a subtop on, how would any granite dust get into the sliders?? How does one tape anyhow, you taking out all the drawers? How about if I cover all the base cabs with plastic or something..??

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larrylwill

I covered mine under the stove cut out but they still got dust and they wouldn't roll easily. The best way is to just remove them. To fix them, remove the bad ones and clean with mineral spirits and re grease them, re install.

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Reply to: I covered mine under the stove cut out but they still got dust and they wouldn't roll easily. The best way is to just remove them. To fix them, remove the bad ones and clean with mineral spirits and re grease them, re install.

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