How to cut granite countertops indoors without a huge mess
Cutting granite indoors generates massive amounts of fine dust or a difficult wet slurry that spreads everywhere. This stops people from being able to safely modify their countertops in place, such as making room for a gas cooktop.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
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- 1Using a wet sawDid this help you?
- 2Using a shop-vac on the trailing edge of the cutDid this help you?
- 3Taping a shop vac to the blade guard and having a helper hold another hose near the cutDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I need two cuts about 20" x 1/2", one cut on left and right to make room for gas cooktop. Is it possible to do this without generating a huge amount of dust?”source ↗
“You're still trading dust for slurry all over your kitchen.”source ↗
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