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If you're going the new route, don't have the surround made of wood.
I don't feel the rest of the counters can't be wood (ours are, no problems), but in a wet zone, really?
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If it were a single piece of worktop, I would avoid wood like the plague, But the worktop is three 2m lengths of wood - only one of which has the undercut sink & rot in it.
Replacing 1 x 2m length seems acceptable, given that this is only going to be temporary.
Whatever I spend is going to be regretted spend, as I'll be ditching the lot in a couple of years, when we re-do the kitchen entirely.
NotThamesWater
There's room to use a router.
Although the installer has already used a router on the underside to install the tap, instead of just buying a 50p length of m8 threaded rod...
Which means that the routed underside is rotten too.
The resin route is looking increasingly like the way to go.
Although - I could just buy a new piece of wood, from worktop-express.co.uk, for £100, which is close the the amount that I am going to need to spend on tooling up.
And I'll be able to put a proper 2k polyurethane on it before putting it in place, and maybe not have to deal with rotting wooden countertops until I get to rip it out totally and put in a proper countertop.