i pulled out our old stove (a drop-in, doesn't have a drawer)...it was crazy nasty and a cheap POS...found glass cook top on CL for $70 and picked it up...planning on getting new counters eventually, but not right now...putting in cabinets in the area vacated by the range soon, though

the old range and new top are both small at 30" wide...the difference is that the cook top needs to sit on top of the gap in the counter, while the range sat in it...now, the top DOES sit on the edge of the gap on all sides, but just barely, so i can't leave it there...also, the range was deeper than the top, so there's several inches of empty space to the rear or front (depending on if i push it all the way back or pull it forward)

now, i could just pick up some wood and extend the counter underneath, but that only works for the sides...since the depth of the gap is greater than the top covers, i'll have to fill it in somehow

so, i was thinking there might be something i could cut to act as a skirt...or an insert that will make the gap smaller and allow the top to sit in it?

suggestions? i can put up pics later, if it would help

2/22/2010 8:07:52 PM

why do you want a stove in your garage?

2/22/2010 8:14:28 PM

^ que?

anyway, here are some pics...sorry the quality sucks









[Edited on February 22, 2010 at 8:24 PM. Reason : .]

2/22/2010 8:16:57 PM

uhhh, make a temporary backsplash?

2/22/2010 8:54:55 PM

Make a back splash and front cover, or, buy a stove with range on top.

2/22/2010 9:25:53 PM

dude, just buy a new countertop.

That garbage melanin you already have is absolutely dirt cheap. Go over to lowe's/home depot with your measurements. Should'nt cost more than a hundred bucks, and get a wood panel and paint it white to go across the front unless/until you get an oven to put in there

2/22/2010 9:52:36 PM

our cooktop has a plastic flange behind it to bridge the gap. it was already installed in our house so i dont know anything about it, but it looks premade, not custom.

2/23/2010 3:36:00 AM

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"uhhh, make a temporary backsplash?"

out of what? i could put any number of things there, but i'm trying to avoid making it look like a hodgepodge until we get new counters this summer

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"buy a stove with range on top"

we already have a wall oven and i use that exclusively...i'd rather have the cabinet space underneath

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"dude, just buy a new countertop. That garbage melanin you already have is absolutely dirt cheap. Go over to lowe's/home depot with your measurements. Should'nt cost more than a hundred bucks, and get a wood panel and paint it white to go across the front unless/until you get an oven to put in there"

well, we are getting new counters, but we were waiting until this summer...thinking silestone soapstone or something similar instead of melamine...to replace the current stuff with corian or formica or whatever lowe's/home depot has is probably closer to $200 in materials, and then installation (which i could likely do myself, but i don't have the tools to cut it, so that'd be an added expense...i suppose i could borrow my dad's or have him do it, though)

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"our cooktop has a plastic flange behind it to bridge the gap. it was already installed in our house so i dont know anything about it, but it looks premade, not custom."

i'll check it out...i never did actually ASK anyone at the stores

it may be that we'll just put in new counters ahead of our schedule and just get some decent melamine...good reviews, and it's cheap...and if it's done right (the stuff in my house right now was not), it can look pretty good...concrete counters are actually pretty nice-looking, too

thanks for the replies, y'all

[Edited on February 23, 2010 at 8:11 AM. Reason : .]

2/23/2010 8:07:14 AM

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"why do you want a stove in your garage?"

he said this because you posted this in The Garage...

2/23/2010 9:26:47 AM

oh...back in my day, the garage was used for discussing things in addition to automobiles

move to the lounge, i guess?

2/23/2010 9:59:10 AM

this is the appropriate section

2/23/2010 10:24:03 AM

move to tech talk

2/23/2010 1:07:51 PM

^Have you lost that much faith in the garage that you'd recommend the o.p. listen to the advice of the tech talk fucksticks? that damn stove would end up being controlled by an alienware computer with one of the burners being converted to a charging port for an iphone while the other burner being used as a spot to set a pair of black-framed glasses since we all know only two burners are required for a hipster, one being used to boil water for mac&cheese while the other being used to boil water for chamomile tea. oh yeah, and there would still be a gaping hole behind the damn thing.

2/23/2010 7:45:55 PM

i think the lounge would be a better fit. or old school maybe. the garage description says all things automotive.

2/23/2010 9:41:32 PM

make a stand alone box for the stove top thing to rest on all by itself. don't put any stresses on that cheap counter, it will crumble away. plus ur going to be putting alot of weight on that stove with pots of water and stuff. then go to the dump and scalp some enameled flashing and covers or even a whole shell and lips off a washing machine and get some really bad-ass snips and make yourself there some tool that can roll the sharp edges back too and look really nice. Do it this way and u have the ability to fully customize for very little money and have a couple of neat tools to show for it. I say washing machine because they seem to get tossed out in better condition than any other appliances.

[Edited on February 23, 2010 at 10:33 PM. Reason : elaboration]

2/23/2010 10:23:32 PM

^^^ Dude I so love that. ROFL. You forgot that wed also retrofit the thing to talk and have a monitor embedded in the glass top.

2/23/2010 10:46:45 PM

that underpsi post was great. A+

2/24/2010 12:34:31 AM