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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.

  1. 1
    Using a wet saw
  2. 2
    Using a shop-vac on the trailing edge of the cut
  3. 3
    Taping a shop vac to the blade guard and having a helper hold another hose near the cut

In their words

Unedited, most upvoted first, 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 ↗

amrogers3 · r/HomeImprovement · 4 upvotes

“You're still trading dust for slurry all over your kitchen.”source ↗

Enginerdad · r/HomeImprovement · 2 upvotes

Where this came up

r/HomeImprovementhome improvementmasonryrenovation

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