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 ?! 😆

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I don’t think the new kitchen worktop would take it!

I mean.....on the bright side, you'll not be tiptoeing around trying to keep it pristine! The damage has been done so hopefully you can relax in it now.

We were absolutely skint when younger and desperately needed some flooring in the kitchen. We were living with half dirty concrete and half those cheap, poorly stuck down tiles that had half been removed. You couldn’t clean it and it just looked horrid. Dh’s grandad died and left us £500 so we bought some beautiful laminate and put it down, it looked gorgeous and we were so happy with it.
A week later the washing machine broke and we needed a replacement (typical when we’d just spent the £500!) I was going to fit the new washer myself but DH was adamant he would, turns out he didn’t screw the water pipes on correctly on the thread so it wasn’t a tight seal. Came home after leaving a wash on and as soon as I stepped on the floor by the washer, SQUELCH! The kitchen had flooded and it was all under the new flooring. I cried haha we managed to take up the floor and let it all dry out but many planks were all bubbled and warped and it never looked the same when we put it back down, annoyed me every time I looked at it.
He’s also torn several holes in our current vinyl flooring moving the oven in and out and fitting another washer, silly bugger 😂drives me bonkers that he won’t wait for my help or listen to me when I want to place towels under the feet of appliances before moving them. The gouges in the floor still piss me off.

Another one here pitching in to say I get it too, we've had loads. Moving in day. Pristine original unpaired wooden window ledge dented by movers. Liads since then, fridge dented. New counter top and sink chipped a few times when DH dropped something heavy. Hallways especially the stairs, always in need of repair/redecoration. Another time i came in to the kitchen and DH was gaily using a knife to stab the inflated packing bubble things so they could go in the bin. I think i may have screamed "what are you doing?!" For that one. I'm not perfect, i once accidentally spray painted carpet once, that's a big deal, but otherwise I'm not not prone to this kind of thing.

Sorry wrong thread

Similar experience. Won a small amount of money. Had lived with a disgusting purple and orange swirled carpet in my new house as I had used every penny I had for the purchase.
So pleased to finally tear it up and have laminate flooring properly fitted.
Barely a week later my son brought his bike into the front room and dropped it sideways. The pedal gouged a large chunk out, right in the centre of the room. I could have cried. Had to buy a cheap rug to cover it.

I get it completely. It was the reason I wouldn’t have quartz worktops, I knew we’d chip them almost immediately and I’d cry.

It's so frustrating. You kind of know stuff's going to happen but you want to enjoy it for a while before it does. We took delivery of our new sofa yesterday. I am too scared to sit on it because I'm worried about ruining it which I know is ridiculous. But it cost us so much money.

No way!

It's shit but you will forget about it.

I bought a beautiful roll top bath. My husband chipped it carrying it upstairs. Wouldn't wait until there was another person to help. He then left a wet sponge that he had used while decorating on the oak vanity which left a big stain.

I don't notice the bath chip now and a got the vanity top swapped a couple of years later.

Oh yeah, he also bashed my brand new fitted wardrobes with the hoover and knocked the corner off them 🙄

I had a cry at the time but soon forgot and everything has more scuffs and scratches now xx

I often wonder what doctors that do plastic surgery did on their days off 😆

Oh I have had many things damaged during two house renovations mostly done by tradesmen sadly. I had just had my kitchen walls plastered and painted, worktop installers gouged a big bit out of the wall when installing. Wooden floor scratched, tiler chipped bath and found one tiler cutting tiles on top my new toilet seat - scratched to pieces, plumber literally ripped out half the back of kitchen cupboard repairing a leak, plumber dropped a shower frame and dented the bottom of it. Carpenter mid measured bathroom units and worktop so the sink didn’t fit, he also cracked two sinks. Tradesmen leaving tools on worktops so again scratched. Most of this work I had to pay to get repaired myself. And believe me I didn’t go cheap with the tradesmen I hired.

What material is the sink? You can get repair kits for enamel, ceramic etc and probably a quartz worktop filler.
What I usually do is buy the repair kit and then realise 3 years later I hadn't been bothered enough about the chip to fix it!

I feel your pain. A 'handyman' wedged my brand new dishwasher in so hard under the worktop, (didn't bother to remove the worktop) he bent the door out of shape. It still works, it just looks really weird.

Not read full thread, but noticed you have kids. To be honest, in some ways it is good to have got the first bit of damage out of the way, because damage will definitely happen over time (quite often no-one’s fault, eg open a cupboard door and a tin falls out and chips the worktop (how on earth does this happen????!!!). What it does mean is that when the kids damage part of your new kitchen (as you can guarantee they will) it won’t be so devastating for you (which would be really upsetting for the kids, and they would prob feel bad about it for years, depending on their ages). I was the first one to damage our new worktop (bit of a chip in the middle of the island - oh dear), but after that it wasn’t so bad when the kids did bits and bobs. I think damage to furniture and fittings is just a part of life - a bit like stretch marks and wrinkles!

I was going to suggest that @Ayse1 's advice would definitely take your mind off it but wonder whether it referred to the kitchen fitter or the FIL. But some spoil sport's deleted it 😪

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New sofa, DH's pen leaked on one arm, cat's been sick on the other arm.

New kichen, DD's boyfriend chipped the inset hob the first week.

New coffee table, first night I knocked a glass of red wine all over it and it immediately seeped in.

Such is life.

I've just remembered my new arm chair, a magpie came down the chimney and pooped on it.

I feel your pain OP- I paid a handsome amount to have some dressers custom built for our room- a few days later as my husband was moving them, this happened- a large angry crack on the side of one of them. I cried. Really ugly cried. I still notice it but try not to look in its direction. The chip on my butler sink I refuse to forgive so that will be getting replaced by my husband.

I get it OP. Have only ever had one new kitchen and it felt like such a big deal. Spent ages on the design etc.

So this isn’t from my experience but gleaned from a woman in the trade who I chatted to a lot during the process. In her professional experience, damage was almost never caused by the person whose kitchen it was, or who spent a lot of time cooking in it, or just took ownership of it as ‘their kitchen’

Treated myself to a fancy new Samsung fridge after using a second hand one for the last five years in our first bought home. Within the week it had a massive dent in it from our youngest driving his scuttle bug into it 😆 can't say I've noticed the dent in a long while but I was gutted when I first noticed it...

I always remember my DF came to stay (he has always been a stickler for keeping his shoes nicely waxed and polished), and asked if he could use our shoe polish. Later that day he had a lie-down (in his shoes) on our cream leather sofa (about a year old, most expensive item we had bought), and later that day I noticed it had quite a large brown patch on it, which never came out. I have always thought it was the shoe polish, but didn’t mention it to him at the time.

I’ve had some rooms redone recently, including a kitchen, and also shared the same frustration when things weren’t right/damaged or didn’t meet my expectation/had gone a bit wrong.

I grumpily ranted to my husband, all my family members, etc. Felt quite put out and not happy.

then… kind of forgot about it all 😆

the issues are still there. Some will be fixed, some were oversights and down to us. But can’t be changed.

I don’t really see it/notice it now. So that’s good!

I recently had a kitchen floor tile repaired through a specialist repair company. It was called Snag Doctor, I think they operate nationwide so they should be one local to you. I emailed them a picture of the damage and they sent me a quote. Might be worth a try