How To Repair Tile Countertop

I love the look of my laminate countertops and they've held up well over the last twenty years.

However, when I noticed a few chips, I wanted a quick and easy way to set up the damage, fill those spots and make it look make new again.

Here'due south the full tutorial.

Chips In Laminate kitchen countertop

Mode back in 2002, my hubby and I establish the habitation of our dreams hiding correct beyond the street.

We'd been looking for something larger in our tiny beach community for over a twelvemonth.

However, we lived in a generational kind of neighborhood and inventory was always tight.

Houses were often passed downwardly to family unit members and when they did go upwardly for sale, information technology was usually a word of mouth transaction.

It's actually how we ended up hither.

We'd always admired the house from the outside. It had a great chiliad, big enough for a pool, which is something I'd wanted ever since I moved abroad from the one at my babyhood home.

But nosotros had no idea what lurked backside the front end door.

It was the fireplace that drew us in first. That yard feature took our breath away.

There was an biconvex doorway, a principal bathroom, finished basement and a charming covered porch.

It literally had everything on the list. Including a completely inadequate and outdated kitchen.

And no. I'chiliad not beingness sarcastic.

Yous see my hubby was well acquainted with my love of decor. He was as well well aware of my want to have a lite, bright and {well-nigh} white kitchen.

But being the money guy, he was ever silently calculating the price of things in his head. A move was not going to exist cheap. New furniture, a larger thou, the inevitable updating. And so he warned me.

Do not find a house with a make new kitchen...fifty-fifty if those cabinets are dark reddish or oak...and tell me that y'all want to renovate information technology.

And I understood. It was a logical request.

And so, when we walked into the cupboard of a kitchen in this home and information technology clearly needed to exist gutted, I think I actually cheered a bit.

I got to put in a new i, from scratch.

Cottage Style Kitchen

Everything in the room, including the laminate countertops, was designed by this girl. A dream come true.

And virtually two decades later, my "new" kitchen looks basically the same.

Oh, I've skirted the sink and changed out the faucet.

And yep, we've had to supercede some of the appliances. Not an easy chore, but that's some other story.

Nosotros've even refinished the island we made years ago. And I've made curtains more than times that I can count.

Only the kitchen itself, has held up pretty well.

Until recently. Recently, when I noticed several chips in the laminate countertop right near the sink.

Yikes. We'd had stains before, just I was able to remove them...but never this kind of damage.

Chipped Laminate countertop

I tried not to fixate on them. I really did.

I tried to expect abroad or cover them with a dish towel. Just they were there, always there, looking at me.

And they had to get.

When I brought it upwardly to Mr. Fix Information technology, he said, Information technology's fine. I barely observe it.

Well that was great, but I noticed it.

I could come across it from beyond the room. And it bothered me. A lot.

It looked terrible, dingy, worn and old.

Plus, I was afraid that h2o was going to make its way into the chipped areas and cause more damage. More dirty looking worn spots.

And that would just non do.

I think it took me near 3 tries to go my married man's attending and he finally started brainstorming.

At offset, we considered one of those epoxy/ paint laminate repair kits, just the reviews were terrible.

Then that was out.

And so we started thinking about paint. If we used the right one, it would comprehend the mess and seal the water out.

But what was the right paint?

How To Repair Laminate Countertop Chips

Testors Model Paint

My husband said it needed to be an enamel paint to work and so nosotros researched online and constitute a brand used for model painting. Testors Hobby and Enamel Model Paint.

The reviews were outstanding. People said it covered plastic and metal, sealed out h2o and lasted for years. Even better, it was cheap and came in an endless variety of colors.

Definitely worth a shot.

So we bought several shades and waited for it to arrive.

When it finally showed upwards, I grabbed a ii very sparse tipped paint by number kit brushes -they are designed for precision in tight spots - and got to piece of work.

1. Get-go, we cleaned the area well with alcohol to make sure there wasn't any droppings or sticky mess on the countertop that would prevent the paint from adhering well.

Rubbing Alcohol

2. Next, we held the paint jars up to the counter to run into what matched.

Matching Paint jars to countertop color

I of the colors was super close, simply needed just a tad of white added to lighten it upwardly.

Mixing Paint in a small bottle

iii. Then we carefully applied the paint to the chipped spots.

We went slow, building up the coats one at a fourth dimension to make full in the areas where the laminate was missing.

Painting Laminate

To do that, we let each coat dry thoroughly before calculation more than paint. I recall it took well-nigh iv coats to fill the spaces well.

We also had q-tips and a toothpick nearby to wipe away any of the excess paint that might've ended up outside of the chipped spots.

Use Razor To Scrape Paint

4. When the paint was dry, I took a razor bract and gently ran it across the corner seam to dust abroad any paint that blurred that sharp, nighttime edge.

The entire process took less than 30 minutes to complete and when we were done, yous couldn't even detect those nasty chipped spots. Perfect.

Repaired Laminate Countertop

That was back over the summer.

We figured that nosotros might have to do this again sometime in the hereafter, especially since the business firm is busy and the chips were located nigh the sink.

Only nope, not nevertheless. Today, a good six months later on, I went to audit the area, to maybe take another shot of the repair.

Just to exist honest, I couldn't discover it.

Like I said, it was the perfect prepare.

For the perfect kitchen.

Perfectly imperfect.

Just similar I institute it all those years ago.

HOW TO REPAIR CHIPPED LAMINATE COUNTERTOP