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Hi, got some visitors during the weekend and one of them chipped my laminate countertop with a cheese grater (works well, apparently!). To make it worse, under the off white pattern laminate it's brown! So it's very apparent. Question is, what is best practice to repair the laminate? I was thinking of maybe glue them, but my ideas in that area of expertise are usually wrong. The damage: https://imgur.com/QB05sSB Chips : https://imgur.com/Hmm6CsD Thanks!
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Aug 19, 2015 01:45
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Fill it, sand it and repaint it? I don't think you'll have much luck trying to glue them back on, it'll be worst than when you started. The glue will always add a little bit of depth, so it's never going to be perfectly smooth. curse of flubber fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Aug 19, 2015 |
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Aug 19, 2015 05:03
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I sell and design kitchens for a living, and square edge laminate worktops are notorious for chipping like that. You'll never get a perfect fix, but there are ways. I usually recommend people fill the chip or dent with the correct Colorfill (a type of worktop jointing compound), but in your case it wouldn't really be worth the effort. The damage is quite small, and your worktop is pretty much monochrome. If you simply find a matching paint at a hobby store and simply paint over the chips, it should be hardly noticeable. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unika-ColorFill-Compound-Laminate-Colorfill/dp/B00UNS5JV4/ref=pd_sim_sbs_201_6?ie=UTF8&refRID=0MMNXB3YDKXFAK33STBC
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Aug 19, 2015 19:34
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Thanks to both of you! Soylent I will try that! Megaspel, I'm terrified about sanding it!
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Aug 20, 2015 01:50
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Yeah, laminate will not respond well to sanding. Maybe to rough up the surface of the chip area prior to filling, but not generally. Laminate is very much permanently damaged once you chip it. Kind of a bummer, but a proper filling agent should make it next to invisible. It's not like butcher block or something where you can just sand down to a "new" surface.
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Aug 20, 2015 02:11
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Soylent Yellow posted:I sell and design kitchens for a living, and square edge laminate worktops are notorious for chipping like that. You'll never get a perfect fix, but there are ways. I usually recommend people fill the chip or dent with the correct Colorfill (a type of worktop jointing compound), but in your case it wouldn't really be worth the effort. The damage is quite small, and your worktop is pretty much monochrome. If you simply find a matching paint at a hobby store and simply paint over the chips, it should be hardly noticeable. This is what I love about A/T 'I have a question about x' (where x= something obscure, obsolete or unusual) 'hello, I am an expert in x, let me give you some protips'
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Aug 20, 2015 11:13
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spog posted:This is what I love about A/T Pretty sure designing kitchen spaces is none of obscure, obsolete, or unusual
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