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Sounds like you hate it. £150 to last you for up to 5 years is not a big investment. Rip the sucker out.
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so another £50 for a jig
I can lend if you're anywhere near West London (outer reaches).
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Also worth noting that Howdens are having their annual discontinued lines sale - so you may be able to pick up something cheap from there if you know someone with an account or have an account yourself.
Also DIYkitchens.com may be worth a look.
If you can get the DIY resin countertops it's actually considerably easier than doing a mason mitre on a traditional countertop. The process is however slightly longer. The added bonus is you don't need a jig to do it.
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All of this kitchen worktop chat has really got under my skin now.
It's a wooden worktop - I'm guessing oak - which was installed badly.
It has an under-hung sink, but has been cut back too far and has no drip groove - meaning that it's got rot all over the shop.
The join to the other sheets is also coming apart, which I'll put down to warping (although I'm not going to take it apart to check).
The question, then, is do I bother to refurb like @Howard and his impressive effort, or do I splash out ~£100 on a new / used worktop and cut it to fit (so another £50 for a jig, which could be sold after), while also taking the opportunity to seal it a bit better than the current one.
We have a 5-year plan for the kitchen though (i.e. we'll do it up when we've done a whole load of other stuff), which makes spending money on it feel a bit profligate, but then if we refurb, we'll have to do it a couple more times, and likely won't fix the problem with the joins.