Weird Question. I spilled spearmint oil on my counter that sat over a weekend I was away. It took the finish off and looks course. What can I do for that?
The principle was correct. He just didn't have enough time to do the finer polishes. Personally I would have wet sanded beginning with a less coarse sandpaper, which would have required more time and diligence. I don't know why they didn't just edit to get the complete information in.
What about... uh, you cracked it in half? How do you repair THAT??? The two edges need to come together and then the crack needs to disappear from the top looking down on it...
You don't. A complete breakage needs to be replaced. Can it be put back together? Sure temporarily, which is why you'll be hard pressed to find someone to put their name on that. Can't guarantee it will hold. No point in paying someone to fix it when it will just come apart again. Put that $ towards a new piece.
Did you get a response ? I have a dark blue corian countertop & there are some white spots on it (looks awful)! Wish I knew how to fix that, all new tops would be thousands !!
I am a certified Corian fabricator, I don’t fabricate and just do repairs, and these guys are clueless, they should have let their illegal alien polishers do it correctly, he never covered the different levels of gloss or how to obtain it... if you want to resurface Corian, get yourself a festool, a scratch like that I would start at 220-320 then to 500 then 1000.. then switch from festoolpaper to abrilon Pad’s, and use the 500 soft pad, then 1000... that’s Corians matte finish, if you want higher go all the way up to 5000 on the abrilon pads, then grab some Flitz and put a microfiber cloth on as paper and polish that to a mirror finish if you please..
Id agreevwith you critique of the vid/results. It wasn't necessary to denigrate undocumented people, who, in my experience are talented, skilled, conscientious, reliable, and hard working. It's the contractors who deliberately take advantage of their vulnerability who deserve the criticism. Whatever. Reflects poorly on you, not them.
sounds like that would take longer than 8 minutes. LOL Not sure why they tried to do it within a time constraint - proved nothing other than you can ruin your countertop if you rush the process.
RealRebster my point is that all shops use illegals who do amazing work, these guys look like idiots compared to what their real staff can do, they should have let them do the work for the purpose of the video
I’m sure if they were not pressed for time it would be back the way it was supposed to look, really a minute and twenty seconds to do the buffing, impossible.
My, My.. 60 grit!!! At 360P (resolution) I cannot tell what finish that the Corian was to start, but if it was smooth, satin finish, I would have not have finished with 150 grit. I would have proceeded to wet 400 0r even 600. Again, depending upon the final finish you'll probably want to polish the surface with an electric polisher and a liquid polish. The higher the grit number the shinier the finish. Water is added as a lubricant... You'll want to start with the HIGHEST grit or LARGEST number that will remove the scratch. 60 grit REALLY removes material and leaves behind the deepest scratch. The lower/smaller the grit number as in 60 grit the larger the more abrasive.
It probably would have looked amazing but the camera guy was counting down. The guy doing the finishing should have made the guy edited the video so we would not have be left with a horible reveiw of his work.
The entire video is 8 minutes and 9 seconds. So it didn't take "much longer than 8 minutes". You are correct about the finished product. It's horrible looking.
We have early type Corian counter tops where I work in the lobby of a theater..and they scratched easily when sliding a pan or similar over the counter..and it takes unbelievable hours hours of sanding with various super fine wet and dry paper and various concret sanding tools and everything else and its a night mare. Nothing works..good imo. The early Corian granite looking counters have apparently been replaced with a new type..before the whole thing was some sort of "emulsion liquid" with I guess no granite..if I understand correctly the new Corian is actually made from pulverized or powdered like real granite and poured into a mold and such and I understand it holds up better to use and repair too if needed. So far no good way to improve scratches in the early Corian counters from my experience. Sure you get rid of scratches but how to polish it too its correct shiny gloss surface?? nightmare starting with 5000 grit wet paper and spending 10+ hours!! who can do that??
Tom Ewing your describing quartz, they make that by recycling old granite remnants. This is a Corian video, and they are not doing it correct, if you want it done or want to know how to do it call through my website Countercrewfl.com
Was this live television or something? The objective was to illustrate that a scratch could be repaired not that the repair could be done in 8 minutes. They should have just edited the clip so they could show it could be done. When the guy scratched it extra deep they could have started over filming with a different sheet of Corian or the same piece after they had repaired the extra deep scratch. Had they started over the host could have learned the new word of the day "feather" off camera. Total blunder on multiple levels.
That was the worst advice I've ever seen. Imagine how that area would NOT match the rest of the countertop. Need to really consider taking down this video!
congrats on showing us a video on who not and what not to do to repair a countertop.
Can you imagine attaching your Corian with 60 girt and finishing with 150! MAMA MIA! I can hear the Corian screaming for MERCY!
They got rid scratches and destroyed counter top, great job guys.
Weird Question. I spilled spearmint oil on my counter that sat over a weekend I was away. It took the finish off and looks course. What can I do for that?
Please, let us know what grade of sandpaper is best for Corian?
How about water rings/stains?
I work with corian every day at work and I hate it especially when glueing build ups together it’s the worst. If you make a mistake it becomes scrap.
Great video. I have deep scratches in my corian countertop. What grit sandpaper should I start with?
The principle was correct. He just didn't have enough time to do the finer polishes. Personally I would have wet sanded beginning with a less coarse sandpaper, which would have required more time and diligence. I don't know why they didn't just edit to get the complete information in.
Now you have a little bird bath on your counter top with how much he took off lol
What about... uh, you cracked it in half? How do you repair THAT??? The two edges need to come together and then the crack needs to disappear from the top looking down on it...
You don't. A complete breakage needs to be replaced.
Can it be put back together? Sure temporarily, which is why you'll be hard pressed to find someone to put their name on that. Can't guarantee it will hold. No point in paying someone to fix it when it will just come apart again. Put that $ towards a new piece.
I wouldn't trust these guys with my garage work bench. That looks horrible.
Same work I in Saudi Arab
Um, you never bothered to mention what you were using after 150 grit.
What about a burn or a crack in the chorion surface? How can I put color back in to it?
Did you get a response ? I have a dark blue corian countertop & there are some white spots on it (looks awful)! Wish I knew how to fix that, all new tops would be thousands !!
You guys just made yourself look real bad. I would not have you touch my job I'm out
I am a certified Corian fabricator, I don’t fabricate and just do repairs, and these guys are clueless, they should have let their illegal alien polishers do it correctly, he never covered the different levels of gloss or how to obtain it... if you want to resurface Corian, get yourself a festool, a scratch like that I would start at 220-320 then to 500 then 1000.. then switch from festoolpaper to abrilon Pad’s, and use the 500 soft pad, then 1000... that’s Corians matte finish, if you want higher go all the way up to 5000 on the abrilon pads, then grab some Flitz and put a microfiber cloth on as paper and polish that to a mirror finish if you please..
Thomas Belcastro ya they hav no clue
Id agreevwith you critique of the vid/results. It wasn't necessary to denigrate undocumented people, who, in my experience are talented, skilled, conscientious, reliable, and hard working. It's the contractors who deliberately take advantage of their vulnerability who deserve the criticism.
Whatever. Reflects poorly on you, not them.
sounds like that would take longer than 8 minutes. LOL
Not sure why they tried to do it within a time constraint - proved nothing other than you can ruin your countertop if you rush the process.
RealRebster my point is that all shops use illegals who do amazing work, these guys look like idiots compared to what their real staff can do, they should have let them do the work for the purpose of the video
can you tell me what to do if I have a spot left on corian by acetone?
I’m sure if they were not pressed for time it would be back the way it was supposed to look, really a minute and twenty seconds to do the buffing, impossible.
I cranked my corian kitchen sink , do you know anybody in Austin , tx area? Thanks so much
I would hardly call this video “complete corian repair”. It’s hardly a scratch .
My, My.. 60 grit!!! At 360P (resolution) I cannot tell what finish that the Corian was to start, but if it was smooth, satin finish, I would have not have finished with 150 grit. I would have proceeded to wet 400 0r even 600. Again, depending upon the final finish you'll probably want to polish the surface with an electric polisher and a liquid polish. The higher the grit number the shinier the finish. Water is added as a lubricant... You'll want to start with the HIGHEST grit or LARGEST number that will remove the scratch. 60 grit REALLY removes material and leaves behind the deepest scratch. The lower/smaller the grit number as in 60 grit the larger the more abrasive.
Good
Great video! Thanks for the tips. Ignore the naysayers below.
“Why is this gray” WTH do you think?
But don’t u put anything on it?
It probably would have looked amazing but the camera guy was counting down. The guy doing the finishing should have made the guy edited the video so we would not have be left with a horible reveiw of his work.
Took much longer than 8 minutes but that's not my concern. The finished product looked dull. My guess is more time with finer wet sanding.
The entire video is 8 minutes and 9 seconds. So it didn't take "much longer than 8 minutes". You are correct about the finished product. It's horrible looking.
scratch gone, surface gone.
Hi
shell wish i saw it a year ago but yes it would u just wouldnt use such a dramatic grain first
We have early type Corian counter tops where I work in the lobby of a theater..and they scratched easily when sliding a pan or similar over the counter..and it takes unbelievable hours hours of sanding with various super fine wet and dry paper and various concret sanding tools and everything else and its a night mare. Nothing works..good imo. The early Corian granite looking counters have apparently been replaced with a new type..before the whole thing was some sort of "emulsion liquid" with I guess no granite..if I understand correctly the new Corian is actually made from pulverized or powdered like real granite and poured into a mold and such and I understand it holds up better to use and repair too if needed. So far no good way to improve scratches in the early Corian counters from my experience. Sure you get rid of scratches but how to polish it too its correct shiny gloss surface?? nightmare starting with 5000 grit wet paper and spending 10+ hours!! who can do that??
Tom Ewing your describing quartz, they make that by recycling old granite remnants. This is a Corian video, and they are not doing it correct, if you want it done or want to know how to do it call through my website Countercrewfl.com
Sig ep Craig????
If I just trash the whole thing they won't notice the sheen doesn't match
Your fired
Cameraman's annoying.
That count down he was doing was downright obnoxious.
I'm finish with 1500 water look see meerer
Was this live television or something? The objective was to illustrate that a scratch could be repaired not that the repair could be done in 8 minutes. They should have just edited the clip so they could show it could be done. When the guy scratched it extra deep they could have started over filming with a different sheet of Corian or the same piece after they had repaired the extra deep scratch. Had they started over the host could have learned the new word of the day "feather" off camera. Total blunder on multiple levels.
"Why's this grey now craig?" What a bonehead question. Great video though. Thanks
I'm just gonna leave this here for those that want to see a proper removal in 9 minutes:
th-cam.com/video/E74ouOinsPg/w-d-xo.html
will that work for heat damage from my coffee pot?
Shell shelle no that’s thermal damage and more then likely affected the entire are the what touched
They didn't get it as shinny as it was. Executive FAIL.
I have a tiny chip, not a scratch, and it's deeper...can't be buffed out, need filling. Now what? Damn X tenants!
they really out here not even buffing out all the scores they put into it. wig
He said "feather" hehehe
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That was the worst advice I've ever seen. Imagine how that area would NOT match the rest of the countertop.
Need to really consider taking down this video!
TOM ARNOLD?
Blurb Burb he’s about as annoying
Rushed it because he did it before he built his business. Seen better
No huh! Wow. Jesus is dead
Nerds should stick to office work, looks terrible.
Finish looks awful. Guy with the mike should keep his mouth shut and let you do the job the correct way.
Click bait
Wow!! Lol
Horrible.