Can You Repair a Chip in a Quartz or Granite Worktop? (A Hereford Specialist's Guide)

By Mark, Head Fitter | Updated: October 2025 | Reading time: 4 minutes

It's a heart-sinking moment: a dropped pan or bottle leaves a small but noticeable chip in your beautiful worktop. But is it a disaster? In most cases, no. This guide, part of our complete worktop care series, explains what's possible when it comes to professional worktop repairs.

What Kind of Damage Can Be Repaired?

The vast majority of repairs we carry out are for small chips. These are almost always repairable to a high standard.

• Most Common Repair: Small chips (less than the size of a 5p coin) on the edge of the worktop or around the sink, usually caused by an impact from a cast-iron pan or heavy bottle.
• Surface Chips: Small chips on the flat surface of the worktop, often caused by a heavy or sharp object being dropped from a height.

What is difficult to repair? Large cracks that run through the slab or heat damage (like scorch marks on quartz) are much more complex and often cannot be repaired invisibly. It's always best to send a photo for an honest assessment.

How Are Chips Repaired? The Professional Process

A DIY kit will rarely give a satisfactory result. A professional repair is a multi-step process requiring skill and the right materials:

1. Cleaning and Preparation: The chipped area is meticulously cleaned with a special solvent to remove any dirt or grease, ensuring a strong bond for the repair material.
2. Colour-Matching and Filling: This is where the artistry lies. The technician mixes a specialist, UV-stable resin or epoxy, carefully adding pigments to perfectly match the colour and pattern of your specific worktop. For granite, this may include tiny flecks of ground stone. The paste is then carefully applied to fill the chip.
3. Curing: The resin is cured and hardened, often using a UV lamp to speed up the process and create an incredibly strong bond.
4. Sanding and Polishing: Once cured, the filled area is carefully sanded down with a series of progressively finer diamond polishing pads until it is perfectly level with the surrounding surface. It is then polished to match the sheen of your worktop, whether it's high-gloss, honed, or leathered.

Will the Repair Be Invisible?

This is the million-dollar question. A skilled technician aims for a repair that is 95-99% invisible. The success depends on the material:

• On patterned or multi-tonal worktops (like most granites or marble-effect quartz), a good repair can be genuinely impossible to find once you know where it is. The pattern helps to camouflage the filled area.
• On solid colour worktops, especially polished black, it is much harder to achieve true invisibility. You may be able to see the repair if you look for it in certain lights, but it will be a vast improvement over the chip and will be unnoticeable to a casual observer.