Perry Holbrook
05-26-2022, 9:37 PM
The new house bath has cultured marble shower walls. When they were installed, one 5'x7' panel was damaged and rather than taking it back to be trashed, they left it with me. The plan was to use it for a countertop in the laundry room with the install to be done by the cabinetmaker. I was told yesterday that he didn't want to do it, so it's my project now. Should be no problem, the stuff cuts with standard ww tooling.
I plan to band the top edge with a 1 1/2" strip of the stuff and wanted to know the proper adhesive to edge glue the strip to the top piece for the best invisible glue line. I contacted the local company that made the panel for their advice on an adhesive. They said what I wanted to do could not be done because when the stuff is cut to size the saw cut edge becomes chalky, ie it no longer will have a gel coat on the sawn edge.
I refuse to believe that it would not be possible to recoat the edge with something. Just don't want to go thru the trial and error to find out what to use. There are some repair kits sold online that may have some promise. Just hope someone has already done this.
Thanks
I plan to band the top edge with a 1 1/2" strip of the stuff and wanted to know the proper adhesive to edge glue the strip to the top piece for the best invisible glue line. I contacted the local company that made the panel for their advice on an adhesive. They said what I wanted to do could not be done because when the stuff is cut to size the saw cut edge becomes chalky, ie it no longer will have a gel coat on the sawn edge.
I refuse to believe that it would not be possible to recoat the edge with something. Just don't want to go thru the trial and error to find out what to use. There are some repair kits sold online that may have some promise. Just hope someone has already done this.
Thanks