To be so sad new kitchen damaged already

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I just need to vent. Kitchen not even a month old and there’s damage to the corner of the sink. Kitchen fitter claimed no knowledge, but I don’t think it was damaged when received, we checked it.

Then the father in law dropped a tool on the work surface and caused a small chip. Whilst doing DIY for us so can’t complain.

But I want to cry, this has cost me all my savings and I just see these two flaws now!

Talk me down. Has anything similar happened to you? Please don’t feel the need to have a go at me, I know these aren’t life altering issues but I can’t help but feel disappointed.

AIBU to want to cry / scream ?! 😆

This happened to me. Crack in sink, chip in a door and installer took a chip out of the work surface. I just learned to ignore them and a year later I barely notice it now. So frustrating at the time but more chips and cracks will come.
You’ll stop noticing them soon

We had a new carpet fitted on our landing mid December. On December the 20th came home to find that the cat had been very poorly all over it, bang in the middle of the landing. Tried everything to get it out including a rug doctor and then professional cleaning which actually somehow made it worse! I'm so fed up with it.
We had just renovated the whole house following a house fire and just moved back in. I cried about it. So pissed off!
Will have to see if we can claim in the insurance but having had so many wrangles with them re the fire etc I can't bear the thought of having to speak to them again!

I had a new kitchen put in last year and I loved it sooo much and still do, but it does mean that every little thing that goes wrong is a bit heartbreaking. This was post-separation and I paid for it myself out of the last of my savings, so when the fridge shelf broke and I got a ring on the glass oven top, I did take it personally! I do sympathise with how you feel.

My mother lives with me, and she is awful for spilling / denting / scratching things - and never bothers to tell me.

It does upset me - I’m a single parent and have to really scrimp, save and spend every bit of spare time I have trying to renovate the house - but she just doesn’t care. Very much of the mindset that ‘a house is for living in’ - which I do get, to a point.

Had a new kitchen fitted in October - already downgraded quite a few options as I doubted before it was done that DM would look after it - now it’s done, I wish I hadn’t bothered 😕

Chipped paint, couple of sinks in doors, and just generally careless with upkeep - won’t wipe work surfaces / use a chopping board, etc. not to mention battering my plates, etc.

Am about ready to give up 😢

When fil was fitting our new loo he dropped a tool on the cistern and we had to buy a new one. He never offered... And dh refused to ask him to.

Gutted for you especially when you know you will be so careful.

I was ill over Xmas and had to abandon making Christmas lunch about half way through and go to bed. My mum and DH took over but my mum despite being asked repeatedly not to put down a hot saucepan on the wood counter tops and burnt a huge perfect black circle in the wood. I couldn't say anything to her as she did it helping out but it looks awful. DH said he can sand it back so I have a little bit of hope. She never even acknowledged it. Possibly didn't even notice.

I get it op! I had to get a new kitchen when I got my flat as it was a bit of a doer-upper. I adored it and fussed over any tiny mark. 6 years down the line I’m very much over that stage and there are dints everywhere- but I would definitely be upset like you if it was soon after it was new.

However agree with pps, the damage can probably be fixed. I predict you’ll just get used to it but if not, look into repair services. I once really badly smashed/cracked a sink by dropping a bottle of calpol on it (which didn’t break!) - I was amazed to find a ceramic repair service could fix it. They literally rebuilt it and you couldn’t see where the damage had been - for much less than the cost of replacing/refitting.

Not quite the same but I had a new carpet fitted in the hallway. Don’t think the fitter had even loaded his van to leave before someone trod dog shit on it 😱 x

My lovely new black glass induction hob was chipped on the edge within a week. DH is dyspraxic so it was always going to happened I suppose.

Can you claim on home insurance?

My oh-so-cute German Shepherd pup chewed the corner of my brand new freezer right down to the metal!! 😱😱 I tidied it up with enamel fridge paint, but… the perils of a puppy, I guess!

I also found that she had chewed the insides of my oak dining table… you can’t see it, but I know it’s there… Little witch😡

DP shared a house with a woman who wouldn't let anything touch her naice wooden worktops. not a dry cup, nothing. Coasters mandatory at all times. We used to laugh at how stressy it must be being her. Now we've got that kind of worktop and it's covered in scratches and water marks, dents where DP tried to break up some soda crystals and just ended up hammering the lump of crystals into the worktop (ffs lol) and even a bit that went a bit black mouldy when we didn't know there was a slight leak under the coffee machine. It's 'lived in' I guess you could say!

There’s a company called Magic Man too, we got them out to fix a chip in a quartz worktop

@Ayse1

ummmm….wrong thread, maybe??

One of the biggest rows we ever had was when I’d saved for a state of the art cooker 27 years ago and dh dropped a tool and damaged the stainless steel edging around the hob within a month.
We haven’t owned that cooker for 18 years now and my Bosch hob is scratched all over.
Time will change your perspective OP.

try magicman repairs - they can restore

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Fitted a new bathroom last year. My DP had just finished the floor and called me up to admire it.

I accidentally kicked over his drill which landed point down on the edge of a tile and took a chunk out.

It's right in the middle of the floor and not where a mat would be so it stands out like a sore thumb. Not worth the hassle of trying to replace one tile though.

We've also damaged the floor in the new kitchen and chipped a couple of cabinets too 😓

It’s just stuff.

I don't know if I'm any help at all as I seem to just lack the instinct most people have that means that I really enjoy shiny new-ness and seek to preserve it, which is why I have a 20 year old kitchen and a very lived-in car... But I'll try and explain how I see it in case it is of any comfort! A kitchen will inevitably have some minor, cosmetic damage and it's likely that would be fairly early on in the overall life span of the kitchen (some damage within months for a kitchen that will last years). If you wouldn't be upset if this had happened to a six-month old kitchen, why does it matter that it happened after a week? What's the actual loss you've suffered here - don't you just end up in the same place anyway? Presumably the kitchen is still hugely better than what you had before?

Talk me down. Has anything similar happened to you? Please don’t feel the need to have a go at me, I know these aren’t life altering issues but I can’t help but feel disappointed

Two days after we had a brand new expensive kitchen fitted, my husband shoved the knife drawer closed with his knee, and a carving knife just slightly sticking up.
Carved a slice out of the drawer above. I was gutted.
It's still like that 4 years later. I've got used to it.

That’s not gonna fix the damage. Unless you offer this option to the kitchen fixer person?

This would probably take your mind off the kitchen tbf.

Maybe this is what caused the damage to the sink in the first place.