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Laminate install on wood monument - Tempe / PHX AZ

ALB Signs

New Member
I have no idea what section to ask this question.
We are making interior MDO cabinet / monuments for a client.
Overall size is 75" high x 36" Wide

A woodgrain laminate is requested to go onto it.
We have the laminate but need an installer to put it onto it.
We are making x3 of them and can easily bring them to be laminated.
We will do the final assembly & installs.

So far, most cabinetry places will not do it.

Question:
Where on here is the appropriate place to post this to find a laminate installer here in AZ?

thanks
 

JSIGN

New Member
Have you though of doing it in hose ?
We have not done it in years ( decades ? ), but you basically roll contact cement onto both full surfaces and let it dry whatever recommended time the can says.
Note that contact cemented surface are the epitome of One Shot One Kill - in other words the instant the dried surfaces touch each other they instantly and permanently bond .
The trick is to lay bottom surface ( dried glue side up ) on a sufficiently sized table, then lay out many 1/4" - 1/2" wood dowels spaced 4" - 6" apart over that dried glue surface ( the dried contact cement won't stick to the dowels, or most other things - it only wants to stick to dried contact cement on the other surface ).
Have someone(s) help you then take the laminate ( also with fully coated surface of dried contact cement it's back ) and carefully lay it right over the dowels so that glued faces are only kept apart by the dowels.
Once perfectly aligned pull out center dowels one at a time until middle of laminate drops down and contacts bottom glue - and proceed to pull out the next dowels from center making sure that it continues to make interrupted contact.
They make heavy duty hand held rollers for this to help press surfaces together which might be worth the $100 plus cost.
Typically the top laminate sheet is oversized by at least 1/4" all around, and a hand held small routed with a beveled follow bit* is used to cleanly trim overlap.
( *special router bits that have a bearinged roller at bottom which follows the edge of bottom surface )
What I don't recall doing though is laminating the exposed 3/4" edges of MDO - might be best to do those first - trim with a flush cutting follow bit, and they do above.
After all this - maybe look up how to videos on Rumble or YouTube.

Hope I don't get you into trouble - just saw that you couldn't get help from cabinet shops.
 
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