Dull worktops - advice please.

I rub a little bit of olive oil over my worktops once a week, leave it about half an hour and then buff it up.

I give the worktop a good hot wash (and dry) each week before doing it to stop any build up.

www.hunker.com/12433599/how-to-shine-a-dull-laminate-countertop

You really cannot ask the wrong thing on GN.

Lakeland have a product called 'work top wonder'.

lizzypop, I saw that but wonder if it was just for marble and granite type worktops. Has anyone on GN used it?
Grampie, I saw that too and did the first part, the cleansing part but was unsure about the car wax. Wouldn’t it be toxic?
Thank you for replies.

Try varnishing them .

Nandalot it is advertised for granite, marble and stainless steel but I have seen it recommended for laminate on other sites although Lakeland does not mention laminate.

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I've used it on my worktops Nandalot. I don't have granite or marble, just ordinary laminate. It's a hard surface (as it suggests on the can) but it's difficult to see the difference in my worktops because they're meant to be matt! The nearer half of the second pic has been polished. I think the effect would show more on a worktop that's meant to be smooth and shiny.

That picture is no help! I can see the difference but the camera can't!

If you were in Northumberland, you could have a go with my can, Nandalot...

If you can afford it, new worktops can really lift a tired kitchen.

I used something similar on our original worktops but it's so long ago I can't remember what it was, sorry. In the end we did change the worktops but now the whole kitchen needs doing!

I like your worktops lizzypopbottle - it looks like wood but probably easier to maintain.

Now I have an advert coming up on the righthand side urging me to buy some Lakeland Worktop wonder to revive my worktops.

I would worry about using any substance on a worktop that might transfer chemicals to the food I put on the surface. That is why I use olive, in fact any cooking, oil rather than anything else.

It is cheaper than any of the other suggestions.

Interesting thread... I keep considering replacing my work tops myself but need to saw hole for sink and oven top. Can't afford to get a professional in.

Have watched few videos. Onlt thing is at present I have those but joints which are done with a special machine.
I would have to use those metal joiner things on mine and I'm not sure if they look old fashioned now

Watch this space, will report back if I pluck up enough courage.
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Work top wonder from Lakeland brings my benches back to looking new again it's
not something I use all the time maybe once twice a month but it does the job

The product does contain:
Aliphatic hydrocarbons
non-ionic surfactants
perfumes
coumarin

It would be any fumes that would worry me as I don't tend to put food on the worktop itself - I always use various boards for food preparation.

Thanks lizzypop. I think I might try the worktop wonder.
It is a relatively new kitchen - two years - so I don’t want to replace the worktops just yet.

I can’t get my head around putting oil in the worktops though some of you seem to use it very successfully. I keep thinking the grease will aprobablyattract dirt and also build up.

WD40. works on counter tops, stainless steel, scratched laminate surfaces. And squeaky wheels.

*Nandalot,I give it time to harden and then buff it up, so that the surface is not greasy. I also wash the worktop thorough every week to clean it all off and repeat the procedure.

Monica I have now olive-oiled my smallest work top and will buff it up in a half hour. All being well, the rest will follow. Looking great so far.
Thank you.

Thanks to Monica and olive oil my kitchen work tops are now 'as new'.

Even dh has commented on them.

Which of course led me to reorganise, move the microwave etc etc so that there was a long expanse of worktop with my beautiful Spanish pasta bowl out on show.

Oh. I am so pleased, but you will have to repeat it every week, when you wash the worktops down when cleaning.

Yes, but it's no hardship to do.