Patent ID: 7219409

Claim:
A method of remodeling a subsisting countertop by casting a polymer-modified concrete mix overlay thereupon in situ, comprising the steps of: providing a subsisting countertop; permanently attaching lath to the subsisting countertop; temporarily attaching edging forms or flow checks around all the free edges of the subsisting countertop for the purpose of checking the flow of a casting compound to the height of a given rise; pouring a polymer-modified cementitious casting compound over the countertop as well as the lath, the outward spill of which is checked by the edging forms and flow checks, until about the level of the given rise is reached; and removing the edging forms and flow checks optionally within a day; wherein the subsisting countertop has a web surface that is bounded in part by free edging, said method further comprising: forming the edging forms with relief profiles; temporarily attaching the edging forms around selected runs of the free edging such that the relief profiles in the edging forms define depending-flange relief cavities that descend below the plane of the web surface; pouring and/or working in casting compound for also filling in the cavities in the edging forms which descend below the plane of the web surface; whereby, when the edging forms are removed, the selected runs of free edging are draped over in part by a depending flange of the hardened casting compound that gives the hardened casting compound an appearance of a virtual thickness that disguises in part the actual thinness of the rise over the web surface.