Solid Surface Countertop Repair. Lexington, NC

This is a solid surface countertop with a crack in the corner. It is nearly impossible to see this crack on this color of countertop but it is there and it is a big crack and a big problem.

Now that I have scratched it up and got a little dust in there the crack shows up quite nicely for my pics.

The customer was not provided any repair material in the form of cutting boards or trivets or sink cutouts or anything. In order to maintain a good dye lot match I had to take off the backsplash from this small top, use the backsplash to inlay into the cracked area, and then replace the backsplash with a piece that is so similar that you can't tell we had to do that. Of course, that is what we want.

Before.

After. Ooops. I left a little dust on the countertop. Solid Surface Countertop repair done in Lexington North Carolina by Complete Solid Surface Refinishing. AKA Countertop Repair Shop. Click here to contact.

Crock Pot Use. More Bad Info.

Another crack brought to you by a Crock Pot.

It's not unusual for me to be told that a homeowner thought that they could put a crock pot or any other hot thing on their solid surface countertop. I know that when I was just getting into the countertop business back in 1993, there were some salespeople that actually thought that was true. Since they thought that it was true they passed that information along to consumers. Needless to say, that came back to bite a lot of kitchen and bath bath people in the backside.

It also exposed the fact that while solid surface countertops are high quality, durable, and can enhance any area that they are used in, they are not now nor have they ever been indestructable. They are not now and have never been advertised as such by any of the actual manufacturers. Dupont is the pioneer of solid surface with Corian®, and I can promise you that even though the myth of indestructableness is widespread, Dupont never put it out there. In fact they have always tried very hard to be sure it was marketed properly.

I was just cruising around through some stats and seeing what links people used to find my blog and website. I found this forum that is sure to drum up some work for us solid surface repair specialists. This thread is titled Crockpot Use.


Things like this forum and other do it yourself type message boards give out bad information about what these countertops can and cannot take. Another thing that goes around is that you can't use crock pots on solid surface but that you can use them on stone countertops. Not true. Even stone countertops can and do crack from using Crock pots directly on them. I've even heard people say, "I have used my Crock Pot on all my countertops with no problem." To them I say, "You have been very lucky." Some people have cracked their countertop with the first use of a Crock pot directly on the countertop.

I really wanted to get on that forum and join the discussion but not enough to pay the $5.00 fee to join. Anyway, maybe I will get lucky and all the people that are taking the advice that this forum is dishing out will be North Carolina residents and then I can fix their countertops for them.

Just so you know, I'm not sharing this information about crock pots so that I can knock myself or any other countert top repair specialists out of work, I just want to share things that you should already know, but probably do not know.

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