[rowly]

Hello, We just bought a house with Corian countertops. The way the countertops are now, there is a hole cut in the top for a drop-in cooktop and it has a separate oven underneath. We'd like to use a regular range/oven stove. Can the section of corian with the hole in it for the cooktop (plus about a quarter inch on either side) be cut out? We're not going to try to do this ourselves for fear we'll mess it up, but is it possible, even for a professional, to do this without causing cracks, and to smooth off the edges? And do you have any idea about how much this will cost? Thank you.

[Dr1757]

If you contact an authorized Corian dealer/installer they can modify your counter top to accommodate your desire to install a range/oven stove. Corian is expensive to install but when I had mine installed they told that it can be easily repaired or modified. I have no idea what the cost would be to modify yours.

[joypulv]

Any good carpenter/renovator with a router and a jig can cut the Corian in an hour. It won't crack or break and will be smooth. If it has to be cut all the way back to a wall as opposed to out in open space in an island, the router can't get the last 3" or so and it will take longer to use a fine tooth saw or a multimaster. Since this is a small job, you might get cheaper rates by the hour, and plan on ~3 hours (to cover time to and from the job) at about $45-50/hr. That's recession rates.