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Swanstone would hold up to the pounding, not sure about regular solid surface. Seems like grit in shoes would play havoc.
Evidently Dupont did have floor tile made out of solid surface but it wasn’t a big hit. Bill Wolle from ISSFA told me he ended up with a bunch of of it and thermoformed it into dinner plates, not a bad idea.
Norm,
so did Surrel. We cut sheets of Surrel that were made a bit harder than reguler and had them installed at a goooood Formica Customer’s house. I think the report was actually pretty good. If there are any old Formica hands who know any of this, I’d love to hear it.
Dinner plates. Pretty good on Bill.
Tom
pjb wrote
Has anyone fabricated stair treads or risers?
PJB:
No, but I did build a gloss white Corian handrail with 1/2″ square tube steel running through it and mounted on gloss black brackets to a wall. There were no visible fasteners.
According to Tony Bacillio, Corian Technical Poo-Bah, a wet Corian stair tread is actually LESS slippery than one that is dry.
Go figure,
Joe
Yeah, Joe, I heard him say that also.
It is a mystery why it didn’t take off.
When we did the training, we were asked to bring a tile guy with us as he would be our designated (or preffered, if you will) installer. He liked it pretty much. Said it cost about the same as marble tile. Not bad to work with.
I’ll have to check back on some of the jobs he did and see how well they are performing.
Tom
Many years ago I did do a foyer in a graphic design studio out of Corian. Cut it into “tiles” about 12″ square if I remember and installed it like you would std tile. Held up well.. Im not sure I would want to use Swanstone because if you ever have to refinish it you would have a problem with the “hairs” from the fiberglas reinforcement in Swanstone showing. With the Corian they just refinished it with a floor polisher and scotch brite pads. Being slippery was not a problem and this was in the Chicago Area.
Does anyone remember the SS show at the MGM? If I remember right, there were corian inlays of the Lion on the floor in various spots. Am I remembering correctly?
Tom
Tom:
The Disney store in Vegas (Cesar’s Palace?) had a Corian/solid surface floor inlay at the entrance.
Joe
Joe,
I did not know that. Is floor inlay used in alot of commercial projects? Because it sounds like there should be some found money in it.
But I’m pretty sure about the MGM Grand thing.
The stairs in my parents’ house are CORIAN. There is an oak nosing on each tread. They have been in service now for 15 years and look great. There has never been an issue with slipping, wear or breakage, In my own house, I covered the treads and risers with CORIAN about nine years ago. Beacuse I had small children at home, I put a carpet runner down the center of the stairs over the CORIAN.
There is a picture on our website of the stairs in my parents’ house. http://www.WilcorUSA.com
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