We had corian as a standard for our kitchen top with our builder. We paid extra to have a small waterfall edge drop down on to our main kitchen counter top and a cupboard made on the outer side, facing the living room.
We said as it was corian we wanted to go for the seamless look, and thought the waterfall hub would look great, considering we were having a waterfall end panel aswell.
However, when the benchtop was installed they have used white silicone to join it up together near the small waterfalled ledge. It's in a highly visible area and looks shocking. Totally not what I was expecting or requested. Was advised by the kitchen people that it was an expansion joint. (I happended to be on site when they had just finished installing it). I think the "expansion joint" is rubbish, but am waiting for the builder to sort it out. Have advised the builder I am really disappointed and copy pasted the corian information to them about how it can achieve seamless looks ... They agreed it was poor workmanship, but when the kitchen people came back, they just tidied up the join and said that's it. I emailed our builder advising we are not happy with this, and were advised this was not how it should have been fixed. No other info!
It has been 2 months now, out benchtop still has the silicone join. Nothing has been done about it.
I am hoping that someone out there who is familiar with working with corian can advise if what I had requested is achievable, or was it something that just could never have been done in the first place (and if that was the case, I would have just gone for a corian hub top, and tiled/plaster edge.), but researching their website I believe it's quite acheivable, but I am not an expert or a bench installer so have no expertise.
I rang Corian in the Eastern States to ask their opinion, but they did not want to get involved and says I have to deal with it thru the builder.
I just want to know if it can be done, if it can then I will argue hard for it.
I probably am not making much sense, so am attaching a couple of photos to better understand.
Thanks guys, fingers crossed someone can advise me.
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