Any ideas for a large burn mark in a fitted kitchen worktop ? it's only 4 years old but I can't find the same pattern anywhere.
As it would cost hundreds to replace the whole lot ( professionally fitted ) I'm trying to think of a way to hide the offending area.
Is it possible to inlay tiles on a standard chipboard worktop?
Chris
I'm watching the answers carefully, as we have the same problem...I've thought of fitting something 'ceramic' proud of the surface and sealing the edge. Haven't done it yet due to lack of tuits.
How big is the burn? - I'm guessing about the size of a saucepan bottom? :-p
Personally i wouldn't attempt to cut out so that the tiles were inlaid, I would simply affix a wooden beading to the worktop in a diamond shape and tile inside that, and use gripfast or silicone instead of tile adhesive. A lot of it depends on where the burn is too, if it could become the new tea-making area then the kettle / teapot wouldn't look out of place on it...
How large, and in what location?
If it's the right shape/size, and in the right place, you could recess in a slab of granite to act as a hot pan surface.
======================= I remember seeing something like this quite recently which is designed to be let into a worktop - possibly in Argos:
Have you considered ignoring it?
Mary
I have seen a template for cutting a patch out and replacing an oval shape of you have a off cut still left
The problem with that is if you inlay them, then unless you get the sealing perfect, then you risk the chipboard swelling up. Routing out an exact rectangle, painting the inside with several coats of waterproof stain, and tiling in there, then grouting may be an option.
Buy a good chopping board, router about quarter of an inch deep out of the offend worktop area using the chopping board as a template, hey presto a chopping food area with removable CB for when it needs cleaning.
And the first time someone knocks a pint of milk over, hey presto a four inch thick worktop. :-p
:: Have you considered ignoring it? :: :: Mary
:-) lol that's what my 18 year daughter suggested, she was the offender !
Chris
Sometimes the young have sense.
Mary
67 yo:: :: How big is the burn? - I'm guessing about the size of a saucepan bottom? :: :-p :: close :-) , a crescent shaped part of a saucepan , the error was realised in a split second and the pan ended up on the floor .
Chris
:: Sometimes the young have sense. :: :: Mary :: 67 yo
sense of humour maybe.
Only if you're clumsy Phillip?
Yes I saw your toungie, but there is such a thing as varnish ...
Your idea would work but the cutout would need sealing first, either with silicon or gripfast / evostik. But your chopping board idea is a good one, and I'd say an inlaid glass chopping board would be better than tiles, especially if it was inlaid into black or white silicon (with no voids or bubbles) or an opaque glass board.
Well I did give an idea, and it doesn't take Einstien to work out sealing it first. :-)
The OP's has an 18 yr old daughter ...
Owain
Maybe you could ask her to repeat it and make it into a pleasing pattern?
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