A great benchtop is a meeting place.
A place for those conversations with interesting characters over the bar at your local tap room, or where your favourite people come together to prepare or share a meal in your kitchen. Our recycled timber benchtops are a bit like interesting dinner guests. They’ve got an entertaining story or two to share from their past life and help bring out the best of those who congregate around them.
At Thor’s Hammer, we’ve been making high quality benchtops for kitchens, bar tops, desks and mantelpieces out of thoughtfully selected recycled timbers for more than 25 years. We’d be happy to help you design and build the perfect benchtop for your space.
Contact our team to design your kitchen with a beautiful and sustainable recycled hardwood timber benchtop from Thor's Hammer.
Our kitchen benchtops made from recycled hardwood timber not only add warmth and character to your space—as in the projects below—but they also make a sustainable choice for the planet.
Project - Anna & Josh’s recycled kitchen
Project - Stephanie’s recycled timber bench top
RECOMMENDED SPECIES For Benchtops
AVAILABLE FINISHES
At Thor's Hammer, you can choose from a range of finishes and sizes to create a one-of-a-kind look for your benchtop for kitchen, bar or desk.
COMMON SIZES
Our benchtops are made from timbers salvaged from the internal structure of buildings. These timbers are at a low moisture content and are the best for making stable, high quality bench tops. Benchtops can be ordered to the dimensions you require, and come in a range of thicknesses - with the most common thickness ranges below.
CLEAN DRESSED BENCHTOPS
Planed and sanded back to reveal more of the colour and grain of the timber
27mm thick - Great for lighter, more modern designs.
37mm thick - Our standard thickness, solid and cost effective. This is the most common stock thickness recycled roof timbers comes in.
60mm thick - Great for a bench or table top with extra presence. Also works well for floating stair treads.
SAWTOOTH BENCHTOPS
A more rustic, partially dressed finish with some sawtooth marks. Because each batch of timber varies in thickness and we machine the timbers individually to keep some of the rustic surface we can’t specify an exact thickness in advance. Here are the thickness ranges for sawtooth benchtops:
32 - 36mm thick (machined from 38mm thick stock)
44 - 48mm thick (machined from 50mm thick stock)
66 - 70mm thick (machined from 75mm thick stock)
