How to fix chips on kitchen bench?

[gardenia8888]

Hello,

Can you please tell me what I could do to fix these? They are chips that have come off kitchen bench. Looks like it is marble kitchen bench but not sure. Have put tape over them and coloured them in for now.  

[witchipoo]

Oh dear. Maybe take better care of it.. don’t think it’s marble, looks like laminate. IKEA sells fabulous products for hot kitchen pans/fryoans…trivets. Please invest in some so this doesn’t happen. 

[JacobZ]

Hi @gardenia8888,

Thank you for your question.

The solution is to use a multipurpose filler to fill and smooth the surface, give the filler a light sand and then paint it with a suitably coloured paint to match the benchtop. If the surface is marble, make sure you are only sanding the filler as you won't want to sand the stone. It is worthwhile wearing a mask while sanding to protect yourself.

To select your paint, I would suggest heading in-store and grabbing a few colour cards that look close to your benchtop. Take them home and compare them to the benchtop to select the closest match. Once you've selected your colours, head back in-store and have the team at the Paint Desk mix you up some sample pots of paint.

Some craft brushes will come in handy to give fine detail to the paint repair. Aim to match the colour distribution in a similar way to the benchtop.

Let me know what you think.

Jacob