Solid Surface Countertops. How NOT to Remove Scratches. Part 1

You have read it on the internet. You have seen it in the literature that came with your countertops. You have heard it from friends and from your fabricators and your sales people and all the home improvement gurus and the manufacturers. What is it?

How to remove scratches on your solid surface countertops. Well, now that they have your head filled with the wrong information, let me straighten you out by telling you how not to remove scratches from your solid surface countertops.

To shorten this particular article, I will refer you to a previous one first. This article is How to remove scratches on solid surface countertops.

Go read that and then finish reading this article. Or read this article and then go read that one as well.

Here is how not to remove scratches on your solid surface countertops.
1. Do not use sandpaper by hand. If you are going to touch your countertops with sandpaper then be sure that you are using an electric orbital sander. You will not, I repeat, will not ever get your countertop to look good by using a piece of sandpaper in your hand.

2. Do not use Scotch Brite pads or any other abrasive pad by hand on your countertop. If you are going to use Scotch Brite, use it on an electric orbital sander. You will not, I repeat, will not ever get your countertop to look good by using a piece of Scotch Brite in your hand.

3. Do not try to polish your scratches away with any kind of polish or buffer. You will only shine them up and they will show up a lot worse than if you just leave them alone.

4. In short, the way to not remove scratches is to do everything that you have been told to do. Follow their instructions for scratch removal and then you will know how NOT to remove scratches.

Part 2 of this article will include photos of scratches that have been "removed". If you don't believe me, then go ahead and try it yourself. If you mess them up even worse, then simply call a professionalto come and refinish them for you.

Stainless Steel Sink. Seperated From A Granite Countertop

I got a call from a plumber that I know and a customer of his had a stainless steel sink that had been stepped in and it seperated from a granite countertop.

I thought that the house had been broken into to because someone had crawled in through the kitchen window to get in. It turns out, it was just an impatient teenager that couldn't wait a few minutes for someone to come home and let him in.

This is probably one of those stories that teen will tell for years to come. I can just imagine how scared he probably was when that sink dropped. I don't know what kind of trouble he got into for that but I would have have been quaking in my boots knowing that I was going to have to face my Mom and stepdad after that one.

Anyway, the weird thing about it is how the sink was installed in the first place. The fabricator had adhered the sink to the countertop with a thin smear of cement that was smudged over the flange of the sink and that was all. There was no silicone for waterproofing and there were no clamps in place to hold the sink firm to the bottom of the countertop


Turns out, the fabricator had been out several times to reattach the sink and had finally ended up placing a piece of pvc pipe from the floor to the bottom of the sink to hold the sink up. All I could do is shake my head and get to work.



Here is the before .





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Here is the after.


No more PVC pipe.


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Granite Countertop Repair. Rose Granite

This is a rose granite countertop that has major damage and there is no way it's going to look right ever again. Never, never, never.
Here it is before an amazing repair.



Here it is after an amazing repair.
Did I say it would never look right again? Gotcha!


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