Here’s what everyone except the professional wood countertop manufacturers gets wrong. As shown in the picture, wood countertops have been made for many many years using woodworker’s bar clamps to hold the boards together. “What’s wrong with that?” you might say.

 The answer lies in Torque. Yes, you engineers out there, it’s not technically torque, but it’s close enough for this purpose. The woodworker applies glue to the edge and then hand tightens the clamps. Hand tightens. This means that the clamping pressure is uneven from clamp to clamp. When the wood begins to expand or contract as the seasons change, where is the glue joint most likely to fail? You guessed it – at the clamp which was tightened less than all the other clamps. The bigger the countertop, the greater the risk.

At CafeCountertops , we have a very large machine specifically engineered for gluing and clamping very large wood countertop panels. Every clamp is tightened using a precision-calibrated tightening tool that ensures every clamp is tightened with exactly the same force as its neighbor. When you offer a Lifetime Guarantee, as we do, these details matter.

We regularly hear stories from our Dealers about how the homeowner chose to provide their own wood countertop because they “found it cheaper elsewhere”. More often than not, the cheaper wood countertop failed, and had to be replaced with a quality CafeCountertops product. The homeowner is out for the cost of the original top, dismounting and reinstallation, plumbing costs if a sink is involved, and on and on. Not to mention the inconvenience of having no countertop for a period of time, and the disruption during the replacement process. Wouldn’t it be a better value to buy the quality CafeCountertops wood countertop first?