How to measure your kitchen for a countertop template
Getting rough measurements before your fabricator's in-home template visit helps you budget accurately and spot problems early. This is not a replacement for a professional template, but it gets you close.
What you'll learn
- How to measure each counter run for square footage
- Why you add a waste percentage to your raw measurement
- How sink and cooktop cutouts affect the estimate
- What a fabricator's in-person template still catches that you cannot
Step by step
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