We recently had a new kitchen fitted. The old kitchen had solid wood worktops and the new kitchen has marble effect laminate worktops. The new kitchen follows the same basic plan as the old kitchen, it’s not a very big space and not much else you can do with it.
In the year or so before we got the new kitchen we started to notice quite large black marks on a particular area of the worktop. They were circular or “blob” like in shape and looked kind of like ink. The area of worktop was away from the rest of the kitchen at the side of the draining board, above the washing machine. The only thing on the worktop was a small metal bin for food waste.
We were at a complete loss as to what was causing the marks, which also wouldn’t wipe off. It didn’t seem to be caused by the food bin and there was nothing dripping on it from above.
Today I was wiping the new surface in that area and noticed some very faint, very small black dots on the surface. They won’t wipe away and are in the same area as the marks on the old worktops. I’m at a complete loss as to what could be causing them and I’m really worried about them getting bigger, as the others were quite unsightly.
Does anyone have a clue what they could be??