Measure
We inspect, then we quote for real
A site visit in your suburb. We check the board is sound, map every run and cut-out, and put samples on the actual bench. Swollen particleboard is a walk-away — the same failure a stone overlay cannot hide.
The Recast guide
A new working surface on the kitchen you already have.
Recast is not a wrap, not a paint, and not a new kitchen. We keep your sound laminate as the substrate and pour a 2–2.5 mm countertop-grade epoxy over it. That flood coat cures into the bench you actually cook on — the deck, the edge, the run around the sink and hob. From Subiaco to Fremantle, Joondalup to Applecross — the same idea, on the kitchen you already live in.
KONDUCT engineers atmosphere. Recast is the part of that work that happens on the bench. A kitchen is a set of decisions that already exist — boxes, splashback, tap, the way the light hits the run at four in the afternoon. Replacing the top usually means undoing half of those decisions to fix a surface that has simply worn out. Recast leaves the room standing. We recast the plane you cook on.
You keep
- Cabinets, carcass and layout
- Splashback and tiling
- Sink, hob and plumber
- The week in your house
You change
- The look of the top — white, terrazzo, vein, oak, concrete, pearl
- The feel — one continuous, non-porous skin
- The edge, encapsulated or built up to a square
- Optional: sprayed doors and new hardware
The old laminate is not the finish. It is the substrate. Once it is degreased, keyed and sealed, a countertop-grade flood coat becomes the bench you cook on — non-porous, specified, recastable. Edges (rolled bullnose, square, breakfast bar) are part of that pour, not a separate product.
Time in the house
A day of work. Not a fortnight of takeaway.
Pour day
Prep in the morning. Flood in the afternoon.
Degrease, key, mask, seal, pour. You can stay in the house. The kitchen is a no-go zone that day, not a building site for a fortnight.
Next morning
Light use
Coffee, toast, a laptop on the island. No heavy pots, no chopping, no hot pans. The surface is a bench again — just not at full hardness yet.
Days 3–7
Full cure
Hardness, chemical resistance and heat rating come up over the first week. We de-nib drips, optionally add a thin second top coat, and leave you a care note.
Edges, in context
Whatever profile you have, the pour takes it.
Perth is full of post-formed laminate with a rolled bullnose — so we are fluent in wrapping that curve without cutting it off. That is a typical detail, not the whole job. Square edges, pencil-rounds and breakfast-bar overhangs recast the same way. Ask for a built-up square if you want the top to read thicker.
Wrapped bullnose
The original curve stays. The flood coat runs over the deck and down the face, curing into one piece. No carpentry, no waste, no square block glued over a round edge. This is the Recast default — and the reason most Perth post-formed tops do not need to be cut.
Built-up square
Want a thicker contemporary arris instead? We can build the edge up before the flood so it reads as a 40 mm slab. Still no silica, still no plumber. Specify it at measure.
Breakfast-bar overhang
Seating sides get the same wrap. Stools tuck under a recast overhang that no longer shows a brown drip-edge every time someone sits down to toast.
Three profiles, one resin
Wrap, pencil-round, or square — chosen to the kitchen, not to a factory catalogue. The edge is part of the surface, not a strip taped on after.
Care
How it lives after we leave.
Daily
A damp cloth and a mild detergent. The surface is non-porous, so oil and tea do not soak in. No drip-edge to fish crumbs out of.
Heat
Mugs, toasters, residual pan heat are what the 90 °C rating is for. A pan straight off a high flame still wants a trivet — the same rule as stone, quartz and laminate.
Knives
Use a board. You can mark any worktop if you chop on it. Recast is hard (Shore D 80–85); it is not a butcher’s block.
Stains
Wine, turmeric, beetroot wipe off a fully cured coat. Do not leave bleach, oven cleaner or acetone sitting on the surface.
Sheen
Default is a calm gloss that reads as solid surface, not a skate rink. Specify satin or a fine texture if fingerprints bother you — especially on pure white.
Years later
Light scratches can be sanded and recoated. That is the quiet advantage of a pourable system. Stone overlays cannot offer it.
Pricing
Guide rates, before we see the board.
Published rates are guides inclusive of GST, for a sound laminate top in metro Perth. Edge build-ups, extra cut-outs, access, and anything we flag on site sit outside the guide. Write to info@konduct.au.
- Pure Bright White
- From $240 / m²
- Warm Concrete Grey
- From $280 / m²
- Mineral Terrazzo
- From $320 / m²
- Pearlescent White
- From $340 / m²
- Soft Carrara Vein
- From $380 / m²
- Pale Oak, Clear Coat
- From $420 / m²
- Second top coat
- + $40 / m²
- Minimum pour
- $1,200
- Cabinet spray
- From $110 / m of run · $850 min
- Hardware refresh
- From $380
Guide only. This calculator is a guide only. It is not an offer, a fixed price, or a contract. Recast will quote after a site measure. Swollen or sagging board may mean we decline the job. Terms.
Lead time
From enquiry to a working bench.
Enquiry
Same working day
Write to us. We reply from Recast in Bayswater with a time to measure — or an honest no if photos already show swollen board.
Measure
Usually 7–14 days
A site visit in your suburb. We map every run and cut-out, put samples on the actual bench, and confirm the number. The calculator is a guide only; the written quote after measure is the price.
Pour date
2–4 weeks after you sign off
Weather and humidity set the window — a 40 °C kitchen or a dewy July morning is a recut waiting to happen. Vein, terrazzo and oak take a longer day. Cabinet spray may add a day either side.
On site
One pour day
Prep in the morning, flood in the afternoon. Light use the next morning. Full cure over the first week. You are not living on takeaway for a fortnight.
Questions, answered properly
Everything a Perth kitchen asks before it commits.
The short version lives below by topic. Specification numbers sit on the spec page; the pour sequence sits on process.