Wow.

Oh my - NOOOO!

Realtor needs to stick with just selling the house as is - no bad advice given!

At least the RE agent might have made sure it tied in with the floor in some way :)----

Might be tolerable in a utility room or laundry inside the garage, but not here!

Your laughing but I bet a 100 people just said hey why not and are on their way to HD as I type.

Epoxy counters are the new rage in some places. What's not to like? :)

Looks like the Rustoleum kitchen countertop refinishing kit. They tried to pass those off as new countertops in an apartment my daughter went to see when she was apartment hunting.

The Cook's Kitchen: Let's see those glossy epoxy tops in 6 months.

Any quick fix where the components are sold in kit form is a red flag for me

I would prefer not to prepare food on a garage floor

Those lower counters do look really cool. But I can't imagine that they wear.

Me too Linda. Pretty sure that stuff is toxic as hell. We had both our attached garages epoxied and even with the doors sealed, our entire house reeked of airplane glue for days. Also, we still got stains on our garage floors.

OMG - I just noticed the floors in that kitchen. I guess the RE agent didn't think that was a problem.

Not toxic it's ECO friendly

Pretty sure its not. I've got the lungs to prove it.

The installers were wearing hazmat gear.

How much more would you pay for a sh*t sandwich?

Another "Save A Buck Chuck" project.

What did you recommend that they do about it?

I guess my question is, did they agree to that sight unseen? If so, Oh well!

"What did you recommend that they do about it?"

My potential customer has inherited this home from her mother. Her entire approach to selling it is wrong. It is in a very highly desirable location (Beach Street). The original house next door has been replaced with a modern masterpiece and this is a very likely candidate for a tear-down. Yet this woman decided to put lipstick on a pig by having cheap plastic laminate countertops installed in the bathrooms. Her Realtor told the terrazzo refinishers to not pull the shoe molding in the bedrooms so there's a horrible unrefinished line around the perimeters. This is the same Realtor who recommended these guys do the epoxy tops. She hasn't paid for them. She's even purchased new appliances for a too-small kitchen with worn Kraftmaid honey oak cabinets.

When I walked into the kitchen, I burst out laughing. There was an estimator for a countertop fabricator taking measurements and making drawings; he can have this one. In my last picture, you can see the sliding doors above the sink. The pool is on the other side. This is common here, but very tough to detail properly. I've had to pull and reset those old sliders. PIA.

To answer the question, I've ground epoxy off solid surface counters and lost my butt on that job because the epoxy was done properly. I'd have this crap off in 10 minutes, but I'd wreck the plastic laminate underneath. Unfortunately, I have nothing for her. I'm not going to sell proper top support and door details on this one.

Another example of people not knowing what they don't know, although I don't know how you could miss the masterpiece next door. She shouldn't have put a penny into this place; it was built in the 50s-60s. I'll bet it still gets bulldozed. There are no houses across the street; that's where the beach access starts.

While the pictures tell the story of how these tops look, they don't address how they feel. Let's just say that if you had an itch on your back that you couldn't reach, you could just lie on these tops and you'd be sure to scratch it.

So, what did you suggest to them as a fix? Or, what did they call you about if not to sledgehammer it to bits?

It cost me $23.00 to go look at this top. I owe no one anything.

Just wondering what they wanted you to do about their kludge. Surely they can not have wanted you to put in an undermount sink. Or did they want you to smooth it out somehow? Surely it wasn’t to admire their work!

I was somewhat surprised to see a fabricator there, especially that soon.

I wanted to verify that the substrate was plastic laminate. You just can't trust customers to know. Had it been solid surface, I may have had something for her.

I could have probably knocked off the rough spots for a minimum charge, but having my name associated with this just wasn't worth any amount of money.

I bet the real estate agent will tell prospective buyers that this is the new trend in counter tops and that it's all the rage in Europe. It is also in trendy grey with pops of color - what more could you want?

Oh my gosh. Wow. Def not food-safe- not eco friendly at all. Probably would have been cheaper to just get a new laminate counter top!

I bet the real estate agent will tell prospective buyers that this is the new trend in counter tops and that it's all the rage in Europe. It is also in trendy grey with pops of color - what more could you want?

It could happen. And sadly, there may be more than one person who believes the real estate agent, and talks themselves into liking it.....

I suspect she told them to get a countertop epoxy refinishing kit and they got the wrong thing.

Look at that floor, and she's concerned with the counter??