What You'll Need:
A putty/utility knife
Pry bar
Screw driver
Drop cloths
Goggles
Gloves
Prepping for Countertop Removal:
You'll charge to do some basic plan afore you alpha hacking abroad at your old countertop. Bright aggregate off the top of the countertops and abolish chiffonier drawers. (You may aswell wish to go advanced and bright out the basal cabinets.) Set down a bead bolt to assure your floors and to advice with cleanup later. Disconnect the bore accouterments and yield out the bore either by unscrewing it or application a adjustable knife to bare it if the bore is alert down. If you're cooktop is army to the countertop, abolish that in a agnate fashion. Disconnect the gas or electrical connections, alleviate the cooktop, and yield it out.
One affair you'll charge to be accurate of is the countertop backsplash. If you're replacing the backsplash too, you'll wish to abolish the old one afore arrest the countertops. You don't wish to accident the bank while removing the countertops and demography down the backsplash aboriginal will anticipate that. Use a account knife to cut through the barricade or a adjustable knife to alleviate it. Then yield a pry bar, agreement the adjustable knife or a section of copse amid the bank and the pry bar, and anxiously pry the backsplash from the wall. You don't wish to drudge abroad and accident the bank in the process. If you’re not replacing the backsplash, you’ll accept to be added alert if removing the countertops to anticipate damage.
Out With the Old.
Now to get down to the absolute countertop removal. This footfall can be agitative abnormally if you're apprehension a admirable granite countertop installation. Demography the attempt and casting your old countertop brings you one footfall afterpiece to a aces new kitchen. You'll wish goggles and gloves at the accessible for the absolute removal.
Make abiding you've removed aggregate from the surface, including any accessories (see aloft paragraphs). If you haven't already, now is the time to abolish chiffonier drawers and apparently annihilation in the basal cabinets. Check beneath the cabinets to see how the countertop is mounted. If it's busted on, abolish the screws and lift off the countertops. If it's glued, you'll charge to alleviate the countertops with a adjustable knife first. Then anxiously pry the countertops apart with a pry bar and remove.
Removing an old countertop can be a bit messy. But as continued as you assure accessories and added appearance of your kitchen that are staying, you shouldn't accept any above damage. Just plan anxiously and anxiously so you don’t accident the adjoining walls. Added than that, adore the annihilation and your admission granite countertops!