how to seal a kitchen worktop gap

hammy1988

We have recently moved into a New Build house (yes I've heard it all before...) and we have a small gap on the joining of the worktop to the next part of the worktop corner area. Its no more than probably a mm in width, but, it is close to our sink area and I'm concerned about water getting in the gaps.

We have told our developer about this and they have offered to sort it...however, being a new build, they are not being the fastest at trying to sort it... but we are pushing them...

until then...

Anyone that knows about kitchen worktops, can we seal it with anything ourselves until its fixed? The developer worst case scenario might replace the whole thing but it's not that noticeable, it's just as to where it is situated near to the sink that concerns me with the potential to get worse with water seepage.

Any ideas?

FreeBear

hammy1988 wrote: »

Anyone that knows about kitchen worktops, can we seal it with anything ourselves until its fixed?

Try this - http://www.colorfill.co.uk/ - It is probably what the builders would use anyway...


In the past, I have also used coloured wax that furniture restorers use for filling in cracks - Had the tiniest of a gap between two worktops, and the wax made the joint disappear.

chappers

colourful is probably what they used but it's not great just rubbed into a gap. really needs to be compressed as part of the joint.