Work top maintenance advice needed please

tentickles666

We are renting a house, have been here just over 12 months. The landlord is the sort that will not replace anything until the last moment (gas fire only got replaced when it was condemned, the cooker breaks monthly but he would rather fix than replace etc)

The work top is very worn on one side. Its embarrassing, it looks dirty and if you put a box on it when its slightly wet still it sucks the colour out of the box and stains!

We cant afford and dont want to pay to replace the whole section. What other options are there? Help!

tentickles666

Alternatively what does anyone think a rough cost of just that side would be?

imho

What is the worktop made from ? Looks like marble to me.

C_Mababejive

Just get a nail rush and some rubber gloves and dip the nail brush in thin bleach. Scrub the worktop with it. It will soon come clean.

teddysmum

Astonish oven and kitchen paste is very good. It removed ground in tea stains form my surfaces, where other cleaners failed. It's about £1 from JTF , a little dearer from supermarkets and can be bought online.


I used to use Barkeepers friend, another cheap but good cleaner, but astonish works better and leaves no powdery residue.

Dan-Dan

imho wrote: »

What is the worktop made from ? Looks like marble to me.

If that worktop is Marble , i`m a chinaman

tentickles666

It's definitely not marble lol! Its mdf or whatever the usual type is.

The problem though is the black bits are the bit under the coloured top surface, even if we get the stains out they will keep coming back, i need a solution that leaves a usable surface as i have much better things to do than scrub all day haha!

Dan-Dan

i cant help just to say i have seen a million of these over my lifetime renting other peoples houses!!

tyllwyd

In a rented house, I think I'd clean it as best I could then put a large glass worktop saver over it. It's never going to be very pretty!

imho

Dan-Dan wrote: »

If that worktop is Marble , i`m a chinaman

But i couldnt understand why its soaking all the stains up.
What about Barkeepers friend
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Or bleach and old fashioned Vim.
It would drive me crazy being in that state.Failing that i would just get cheap white tiles and tile the worktop as i have done that before and none cracked .

Bricken

Some worktops are not coated in resilient formica and retain bad stains i had one peel there is no simple solution it will remain ugly i suggest on a roll vinyl used as a table cloth by many astute parents then protect it with wooden cutting boards
Some kitchen suppliers do offcut worktops from about £30