Tips for refreshing the appearance of a tired looking work-surface anyone?
The main worksurface/breakfast bar in the kitchen is beginning to look "patchy" with wear areas and/or faded bits appearing.
I've tried T-cut/Mer car polish on it, but it hasn't helped. Anyone got any proven methods (other than total replacement with black granite/Onyx (which is what she would like).

I saw someone on a tv programme - Homes Under the Hammer? - and they had spread a gel coat, they did it on a floor too. Don't ask me what this is 'cos I don't know. :rolleyes:
 
Not done anyfink today. Anoyd wiv meself ferrit. Cant get mowtivaytid. Was going to move me outside bt line from down stairs ter up stairs. Just gerrin dark by the time eye started so stopped.

'ere I go again :rolleyes: I've got bt lines in three rooms! There is one in the living room, one in the kitchen and one in the main bedroom - all wiring comes out from the wall that the outlet is on.. Nothing to do with me, the person who had the bungalow built (he was an electrician) seemed to use this place as an experiment to put as much trickery in as he could - sockets by the ton, even down to floodlighting in the garden and a garden pond with a constantly flowing Lion feature. Needless to say, that is turned off from inside. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:.
 
Hee Hee! Love that as an excuse!!!
:D:D:D:D
"I'm too gross to move the sofa!!!!"
Wifey does all the gloss so if she don't feel like it I don't have to feel like doing the walls either!!! (It ain't that she is better at it, it's just that she thinks she is. who am I to disabuse her of the idea???!!!!;);););))

To be fair I left the painting to the misses last year, I done the ceilings cause she cant reach :rolleyes:
There's a wee set of steps over there which went down like a lead balloon lol
 
Tips for refreshing the appearance of a tired looking work-surface anyone?
The main worksurface/breakfast bar in the kitchen is beginning to look "patchy" with wear areas and/or faded bits appearing.
I've tried T-cut/Mer car polish on it, but it hasn't helped. Anyone got any proven methods (other than total replacement with black granite/Onyx (which is what
she would like).

So is formica, coloured plastic. It's already worn, ie workin through the colour layers. Polishing only accelerates the process. Basically it's fooked. Make it shiny, or puts glitter on it. Like a turd. :D
 
I was reading about this last week, clean with vinegar then use car wax as you would on yer motor
then buff up, spray an oil based laminate polish all over it & leave over night & buff the day.
We could be doing with noo worktops but I is procrastinating. :oops:

Herself says there's some kinda wax you kin get. Reckon you kin only put colour back on but would be an ongoing process, bit like a Tratter :D
 

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