@Sacto Mitch posted:.
Stan, thanks for your succinct and eloquent statement of The Car Guy Manifesto, which is generally delivered with greatest passion from the safety of the garage, the pub, or forums like this which (for reasons I'll never understand) are generally peopled with grumpy old men and with younger men in training to be grumpy and old.
I know I risk my membership in good standing here by observing that the Speedster sits polished and ready in our garage, having had its every need lovingly addressed over the past 10 years, while our 35-year-old laminate countertops show obvious signs of aging and neglect.
It is one of the paradoxes of modern life that the more we work on the infrastructure of the garage, at the expense of the infrastructure of the kitchen, the more time we are likely to spend sequestered in the garage.
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If the plywood is good there’s no reason not to just swap the laminate. There are so much many more choices in terms of laminate these days than 35 years ago. And that goes for the cabinets themselves. But somehow some people think doing that is not as good as getting something totally new or stone or solid surfacing material. Many times you get something new that doesn’t even hold a candle to the quality in the material (old growth wood in many cases) and craftsmanship on an old set of cabinets. Unnecessary waste compounded by paying up the wazoo while not getting a good quality product all in the name of being trendy. There; I vented 😉