Help Protect Your Countertops With Our Chip Minimizer
The edge around an undermount sink is one of the most frequently used and vulnerable areas of your countertop. Accent Countertops' Chip Minimizer is designed to help reduce the risk of chips caused by everyday impacts from pots, pans and dishes.
Chips Around the Sink Are a Common Countertop Problem
With an undermount sink, the finished stone or quartz edge is exposed around the opening. During everyday kitchen use, heavy pots, pans, dishes and other items can accidentally strike this edge.
When a hard object hits a sharp countertop edge, the impact is concentrated into a small area of the material and can sometimes cause the countertop to chip.
Sharp Edges Concentrate the Impact
A traditional sink opening can leave a relatively sharp finished edge exposed around the sink. When cookware strikes that edge, the force is concentrated into a small portion of the countertop.
By modifying the profile of the sink edge, we can help soften that vulnerable area and reduce the likelihood of common impact-related chips.
Heavy Pots & Pans
Cookware can create significant impact against an exposed countertop edge.
Exposed Sink Edge
Undermount sinks leave the finished countertop material exposed around the opening.
Daily Kitchen Use
Frequent use increases the chance of accidental impacts over the lifetime of your countertops.
Add a Chip Minimizer to Your Sink Opening
Instead of leaving a sharper exposed edge around the sink, Accent Countertops can fabricate the opening with either a rounded or beveled profile. This helps reduce the concentration of impact when cookware accidentally contacts the countertop.
Rounded Sink Edge
A smooth rounded profile removes the sharper exposed corner and creates a softer transition into the sink opening. This helps distribute minor impacts across a less vulnerable edge.
Beveled Sink Edge
A beveled profile reduces the sharp corner while maintaining a clean, contemporary look. This is the required Chip Minimizer option for rectangular or square sinks with sharp corners.
Why Choose a Chip Minimizer?
A small fabrication detail can make a meaningful difference in one of the highest-use areas of your new countertops.
Softer Sink Edge
Reduces the sharp exposed corner around the undermount sink opening.
Helps Prevent Chips
Designed to reduce the likelihood of common impact-related damage around the sink.
Built Into Fabrication
The edge profile is professionally fabricated directly into your countertop.
Added Peace of Mind
Protect one of the most frequently used and vulnerable areas of your countertop.
Built for Real-World Kitchen Use
Beautiful countertops still need to function in a busy kitchen. The Chip Minimizer provides additional protection specifically where cookware, dishes and other kitchen items are most likely to contact your countertop.
- Helps reduce vulnerable sharp sink edges
- Designed specifically for undermount sink openings
- Rounded and beveled options available
- Professionally integrated during fabrication
- Helps minimize expensive impact-related repairs
What If Your Sink Still Chips?
While the Chip Minimizer is designed to greatly reduce the possibility of chipping around the sink, stone and quartz can still be damaged by a sufficiently hard impact.
In the unlikely event that you chip the sink area even with an Accent Countertops Chip Minimizer, we will repair the chip for you at no charge.
Designed to Reduce Chipping — Not Make Stone Indestructible
Natural stone and quartz countertops can still be damaged by sufficiently hard impacts. The Chip Minimizer is designed to reduce the vulnerability of the exposed sink edge and help prevent the type of everyday impact damage that commonly occurs around undermount sinks.
Protect Your New Countertops
Ask your Accent Countertops specialist about adding a Chip Minimizer to your undermount sink and which edge option is best for your countertop material and sink style.
Contact Accent Countertops