Jacob":1jmpg31f said:
Corian is designed to be rapidly obsolescent. The idea is that you buy a new kitchen after a few years. .
Says who Jacob?
I've fitted hundreds of kitchens over the years and refurbished even more. Whilst I've never fitted a corian worktop from new, I have altered and refinished a number of them, I've also fitted more than a dozen Mistral worktops (am in the middle of fitting one now co-incidently), which are basically the same just 25mm thick instead of 12mm.
I have one customer for example with 3 kids 2 dogs and a careless husband. She has a very large farmhouse kitchen with corian worktops and double sink. It is now 23 years old and I refinished the surface last year without difficulty. It is in fact so good that whilst I will be changing all the doors and some of the units in a few months time, the tops and sink are staying put.
IMHO corian and similar worktops are as durable as hardwoord as long as they are treated with respect and certainly have a much longer life than laminate.
My own kitchen, utility and a table all have Mistral tops which can and do get stained and scratched in use. It takes me no more than 1 hour to refurbish them to as new - and we have a lot of it!
Stick to what you know Jacob :wink: :lol:
Bob