How To Repair Countertop Behind Sink

One of the great things most Corian is that it's repairable.  Corian is a durable production but sometimes it does fissure.  I recently repaired a fissure coming out of the corner in an L-shaped counter-top.  Meet the motion-picture show beneath.

Crack goes into the front border

One of the reasons this cracked was because the corner was but a 1/two″ radius.  The DuPont standard is a minimum 1″ radius in a corner like this.  I corrected that with the plug repair.

This type of repair requires material from the original installation.  When the counter-top is first installed the fabricator is supposed to leave backside a scrap slice, usually the sink cut out.  That doesn't always happen, but fortunately for this client, they had it.

I picked up the scrap and fabricated the plug in my shop.  This takes some time and does create dust and so I prefer to get that prep work done ahead of time.  I so went back to the customer and did the repair.  Hither are the pictures with step by pace descriptions:

Top part of the cracked area has been removed using a template as a guide.

The rest of the edge is removed.  From this angle y'all tin see that Corian is 1/2″ thick.  To create the i 1/2″ edge two pieces are added to the main piece.

Here I've add the piece I prepped in the shop.

Now I've added the top slice, as well prepped in the shop.

It's glued and clamped, waiting almost 30 minutes for the mucilage to dry.

Mucilage is dry, at present to sand and finish the edge.

All done!

Completely invisible repair and the radius has been corrected.

And that's how you practise a plug repair!  If you take a similar upshot with your counter I'd love to hear from you.  Delight telephone call at 973.875.8638 or email at info@buccieriscustomcountertops.com.  Thanks for reading and I hope to hear from you!

Source: https://thecountertopguy.wordpress.com/2016/04/30/plug-repair-for-cracked-corian-countertop/

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