Chipped Beige Quartz Worktop Edge Repaired in Roby

The damage

Alison has a beige quartz kitchen worktop in Roby, Liverpool, with gold veining and fine speckles running through it. There was a chip of about 8 to 10mm on the square front edge, right where it catches the eye every time you walk past.

It's a small chip, but on quartz the edge is the hardest place to hide a repair. The light reflects straight off the polished surface, so the colour and the pattern both have to be right.

How I repaired it

I cleaned the chip out and filled it with a UV-curing resin. It's perfect for this type of repair: it gives great colour matching and long-lasting durability.

The hardest part was mixing the resin to match the quartz. The beige base has tiny speckles in it, so I matched the base colour first, then put the speckles back in one dot at a time, keeping them tight to the repair so it blends with the stone around it. Once it cured, I shaped the square edge back in and polished it up to match the shine of the worktop. While I was there, I also sorted a small extra mark by the sink at no charge. The whole job took about 2 hours.

The result

The chip is gone and the edge is square again. The colour and the speckles carry straight through, so from normal standing height you can't pick out where the repair is.

If your quartz worktop has a chip, it can almost always be repaired in place, with no need to replace the top. I cover Roby, Huyton and the rest of Liverpool and Merseyside.

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