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Why DIY Quartz Chip Kits Usually Make It Worse
We get it — a chip kit costs $15 and a YouTube video makes it look easy. Here's what the video doesn't show: quartz chip repair is 20% filling and 80% color-matching, sanding, and polishing. Getting the fill color right against your specific slab is genuinely hard. Getting it flush without power sanding is nearly impossible.
The three outcomes we see from kits: a fill that's proud of the surface (a hard little bump you feel every time you wipe), a fill that's the wrong shade of white and now the chip is MORE visible, and a glossy blob that stands out under kitchen lights. Every one of those has to be ground out before a proper repair — more time, more cost. Save the fragment, photograph the chip, and get it done once.
Do
- Photograph the chip in daylight before anything else
- Let a fabricator color-match against your actual slab
- Save the knocked-out fragment if you have it
Don’t
- Don't buy the epoxy kit for visible areas
- Don't superglue a chip — it welds the wrong shape in place
- Don't sand a repair flush by hand — you'll dip the surface
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