Joining Corian

luckylister · 10 Dec 2010

Hi there, who can help me, i am trying to join 2 straight lenghts of corian but i am having a nightmare trying to find out what sort of glue to use. I have tried loads of places but no one seems to sell the dupont adhesive. Can anyone give me some tips or advice, is there another type of glue in can use ?. Cheers.

jasonB · 10 Dec 2010

If you don't want the joint to show you need to use the correct epoxy for that colour corian, small bits for craft work can be done with superglue.

Can't help with a supplier as I get my corian done by a local fabricator, Jonnyd is the man to ask.

Jason

Lons · 10 Dec 2010

Hi

I had a similar problem a few months back and there's a thread on here if you do a search.
Dupont won't sell the adhesive to anyone who hasn't undergone their training and registration schemes at a substantial £-cost (a way of restricting availability and protecting exclusivity).
They give the impression that it requires great skill to fabricate when in fact it's quite simple.

My need for for a repair to a 25 year old top and in fact the join would show anyway unless the whole tops were refurbished. My customer didn't care and wouldn't pay so I used one of the Araldite 2000 range which is suited perfectly to the job and I mixed corian dust to colour. Not a perfect match but not too bad at all. ( I took advice about the dust from the adhesive company first).

I'm about to install 2 kitchens, one my own, with very similar worktops (Mistral) who are quite happy to supply adhesives.

cheers

Bob

JonnyD · 10 Dec 2010

Lons":36on93ez said:
They give the impression that it requires great skill to fabricate when in fact it's quite simple.

Bob

It requires a fair bit of skill to do a good job but anyone with decent woodworking and router skills should be able to learn how to do it relatively quickly.

Interesting about mixing the corian dust and epoxy together as the dust is mainly white whatever the colour.

PM sent to OP

cheers

Jon

Lons · 11 Dec 2010

JonnyD":1l2lcgjt said:
Lons":1l2lcgjt said:

They give the impression that it requires great skill to fabricate when in fact it's quite simple.

Bob

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It requires a fair bit of skill to do a good job but anyone with decent woodworking and router skills should be able to learn how to do it relatively quickly.

Interesting about mixing the corian dust and epoxy together as the dust is mainly white whatever the colour.

PM sent to OP

cheers

Jon

Hi Jon
Just assumed the op has the woodworking skills but anyone able to use a router and ROS effectively can produce a decent joint using glue blocks or seaming clamps IMO.

White dust is a valid point - forgot about that but as the worktops in question were plain (ice) white it never crossed my mind #-o :lol:

cheers

Bob

jasonB · 11 Dec 2010

Its when you start adding coved upstands and thermo forming the edging to a curve etc that you need a bit more skill, just butting two parts together is relatively easy but they still need fabricating with the front edge and suitable MDF subrfame.

Jason