Asked on Apr 25, 2018
I have melamine cupboards. They’re chipped along edges. How can I fi
by Lisa
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I tried attaching plastic edging. Didn’t work. Tried melamine edging. Didn’t work either.
7 answers
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Janet Pizaro
on Apr 25, 2018
https://www.ehow.com/how_5065795_repair-melamine-chipped.html -
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Nancy Flemming
on Apr 25, 2018
If your melamine is lifting use a knife to lift back a little and squirt some glue down and clamp until dry. Then use wood filler to fill the chips, sand and paint, you can either paint whole cabinet or just touch up by blending in colours to matchyour cabinets. Another option would be to put a 2" wood border around the whole edge, this would update your cbinets to shaker style. Good luck. -
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Rachel's Trash~2~Treasures
on Apr 25, 2018
How did you attach them? -
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Bgoncalves5670
on Apr 25, 2018
I would fill the chipped edge with a little putty and then put some new trim on outer edges , either with finishing nails or some heavy duty double stick tape. Will up scale the look . Maybe some new door handles and it will look like you got new cabinets. Hope this helped. -
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Lisa
on Apr 25, 2018
Just a thought. Perhaps you can fill the chips in with wood putty and then sand and then paint the cabinets? -
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KattywhampusLOL
on Apr 25, 2018
Wow, LIsa, I never tried fixing melamine chips, but if it were ME, I'd probably visit a hardware sotre (or a big box store) and ask for some sort of putty filler to use, then lightly sand it when dry, and paint it a color to match your cabinets as closely as possible. Here is a link with some suggestions from other folks.http://forums.jlconline.com/forums/forum/jlc-online-expert-forums/finish-carpentry/34347-fixing-melamine-chipsGood Luck, and thanks for coming to Hometalk for answers :) -
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Rachel's Trash~2~Treasures
on Apr 25, 2018
The plastic and melamine edging you attempted to attach, how did you attach them?
Janet Pizaro
on Apr 25, 2018
Nancy Flemming
on Apr 25, 2018
Bgoncalves5670
on Apr 25, 2018
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