Ouch! Where did this happen? Are you going to fix it?

yikes

I suppose there might be times to play with the material that way especially since it is not natural looking anyway.

No faucet holes. And the bowl is too far back. The pattern match doesn't bother me.

Weird, just weird

This happened in a local shop. I've been hired to fix it tomorrow morning. The bowl is farther back than I would have put it. They've got a sink cutout that was cut too large for me to fix too.

Why would they hire you to fix that? Why don’t they just cut another top? That was the last of the material and it’s cheaoer to fix than order another slab?

"Why would they hire you to fix that? Why don’t they just cut another top? That was the last of the material and it’s cheaoer to fix than order another slab?"

Excellent question, Sophie. Yes, it's less expensive to hire me to fix this than build a new one.

Corian's distributors sock fabricators with a cut charge, so if a sheet of veined material costs $700.00, a half sheet isn't $350.00, it's $450.00 or so. $450.00 plus $100.00 for the bowl, plus $50.00 for delivery, plus refabricating the whole thing, and the fabricator's cost on a vanity top is approaching $750.00 at least.

So yeah, if you've got remnants, you'd better find a way to seam them into profits, especially on little vanities.

I think you better hit that shop owner up with a sales pitch for training his guys. Beyond measure twice and cut once. If a fabrication shop can't do what you do, they overall are not the skilled individuals I'd want to use.

The Cook's Kitchen:

You're correct. What we're seeing isn't as much a fabrication failure as a skills gap failure. Every employee who was any good got the hell out of fabrication as the wages and benefits suck. When you're out of illegal aliens, you're stuck calling a high-dollar hired gun like me. Fabricators face impossibly low price competition on one side and a dearth of talent on the other.

His edges before, my edges after. You gotta rabbet this stuff.

You saw the before above, here is the after. I've got two seams, he only had one. Corian sinks have an overflow nipple. That's as small as the front rail gets with a 1" overhang.

He actually mounted this sink.

I shouldn't show this, but I'm weak when it comes to Houzz. Considering I had no material to "shop", this is pretty dang nice. His top was 40" and supposed to be 41", a disaster when it comes to material with movement.

Beautiful job! Unbelievable almost how it came out from where it started.

You gotta raise your rates. Especially to save contractor’s butts. They need to learn to invest in training their people as an economic investment. If repair costs them $100 less than buying a whole new sheet and the hours to start over, then they may start thinking about how skills make them money.

Who trains and certifies Corian guys in FL anyway? Because the pendulum is swinging back the other way and it is about to be in demand again. Could be an opportunity. Basics, Intermediate, and Advanced classes on what you’ve learned over the years.

This:

But not without having to fix my own screwup. Router drifted from my fence: