Gloss kitchen worktops

undercover_elephant_2

If you really want gloss, stump up for a decent material. Formica scratches easily, as do most plastics. If it's a gloss material, you will notice the scratches. you could try getting worktops where they've laminated them with a thin layer of granite/corian/etc. They aren't as cheap as a regular worktop, but will look much better for longer, and for a lot less money.

/Elephant

chirpy007

I want black gloss but everyone has put me off. I cant get a price of the "Speedstone" stuff which is the laminte topped with Granite. can anyone help. Every web site i find doesnt have prices and l have emailed them for quotes and never recieved a repy.Getting desperate now

loveandlight

Everyone including the sales people tried to put me off having high gloss black worktops. Even my kitchen fitter wouldn't fit them so I paid someone else to do it. I have had them a few months now and they get very heavily used. I love them! No scratches at all. Quite honestly, I think it's all a matter of common sense, like everything else, if you use the right chopping boards etc there's no reason why they shouldn't stay as new for a long time yet. I'm very happy with them!!

chirpy007

loveandlight wrote:

Everyone including the sales people tried to put me off having high gloss black worktops. Even my kitchen fitter wouldn't fit them so I paid someone else to do it. I have had them a few months now and they get very heavily used. I love them! No scratches at all. Quite honestly, I think it's all a matter of common sense, like everything else, if you use the right chopping boards etc there's no reason why they shouldn't stay as new for a long time yet. I'm very happy with them!!

Thanks for that, l have read a few posts now which have been positive. We have decided that we will take the chance. We are careful anyways, l dont have one mark on my old ones so do plan to look after them. I think because we had originally always said we would have them everything else just doesnt do it for me.

MGAstra

I bought a "Ebony Granite Gloss" worktop from B&Q about 12 months ago. (cheap, shiney, black with random grey bits for the pattern)

It still looks brand new to me and I would definately buy another one next time.

BUT: I DO use worktop protectors, I DO try to protect it from scratches, I DO NOT have kids/tennants abusing them!

abbecer

AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!! We had them and they were awful only had them a year or so and had to have them replaced with something else. I did also used protectors etc but i was sick of the watermarks and it always looking dirty. WE now have something called Capri, expensive but fantastic. It looks like matt granite but if it gets scratched you just fine sand it and retreat it and it's like new again. We got ours from Howdens joinery.

Rebecca x

robwend

My Kitchen Fitter Talked Me Out Of Gloos Tops, One Reason When They Miter The Worktops The Riskof Damage Is 100%, And Every Knife Mark Will Show , Every Rub With A Hard Cloth Pad Will Ruin It

robwend

chirpy007 wrote:

Thanks for that, l have read a few posts now which have been positive. We have decided that we will take the chance. We are careful anyways, l dont have one mark on my old ones so do plan to look after them. I think because we had originally always said we would have them everything else just doesnt do it for me.

... OOOHH SO YOURVE HAD HIGH GLOSS BEFORE , SO THATS OK THEN YOU KNOW YOURL CRY WHEN YOU SEE EVERY MARK LOL AS THERE NOTHING AT ALL LIKE OTHER WORKTOPS , NOT ONE TINY WINY BIT

tawnyowls

secretdancer wrote:

Any opinions on gloss laminate kitchen worktops - heard mixed reviews about them so just asking a wider audience for opinions.

I had a high-gloss black granite-effect worktop for 7 years, and it always looked fab. Dead easy to clean and food never seemed to stick to it in the same way it now does to my matt (slightly textured) worktop (it was installed when we got here; I'll be replacing it later). My worktop wasn't anything special, just got it through a local company, and I never treated it particularlly carefully. I did use chopping boards and worktop savers and never put hot pans directly onto the surface - surely that's just sensible practice? Granite itself is quite easy to mark (although obviously any scratches can be polished out), so you need to look after that too. Certainly anyone using a knife directly on their worktop shouldn't be surprised that it damages it.

I was warned off gloss cupboards at the time we had the new kitchen finished, and I spent the next 7 years wishing I hadn't been, because the textured surface was much more difficult to clean than the surface of the gloss worktop. My utility room now has gloss cupboards (Ikea) and they're much easier to clean than the textured ones and the textured worksurface in the kitchen. All I had to to do (and I think I was told to do this with the gloss worktop too) was to 'cure' the surface by washing it with a solution of washing-up liquid in water and leaving it to dry.

If you want gloss, go for it. There's no point getting something you don't want and wishing you'd got the stuff you did want.

tawnyowls

chirpy007 wrote:

I want black gloss but everyone has put me off. I cant get a price of the "Speedstone" stuff which is the laminte topped with Granite. can anyone help. Every web site i find doesnt have prices and l have emailed them for quotes and never recieved a repy.Getting desperate now

How about Granite Solutions? They do a similar product and will clad a worktop for you. https://www.granitesolutionsdirect.co.uk