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How to Care for Quartz After a Professional Repair
After a crack fill, chip repair, or resurfacing, the repaired area is structurally sound immediately but finishes curing over the first days. Treat it gently for a week: normal wiping is fine, but skip scrubbing the spot directly, don't place hot pans right on it, and don't test it with fingernails or keys.
Day seven, do a daylight inspection: the repair should be smooth to the touch, close in color under your kitchen lighting, and showing no edge where fill meets stone. Report any lift, cloudiness, or color mismatch right away — a good shop stands behind the repair and touch-ups in the first weeks are simple. Long-term, a repaired spot needs nothing special: clean it like the rest of the counter, and it'll age with the stone.
Do
- Be gentle on the repaired spot for the first week
- Inspect the repair in daylight at day seven
- Report any edge, lift, or color mismatch early
Don’t
- Don't scrub the fresh repair directly for a week
- Don't set hot pans on the repaired area while it cures
- Don't pick at the edges to 'test' the repair
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