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Bought a toilet roll holder and two towel holders for the van last year. Needless to say the cheap Chinese sh@t fell apart, leaving the self adhesive pads behind! Despite heating them up with a hairdryer the pads ripped off the paper veneer leaving 3 unsightly marks 3 inches wide x 2 inches tall! Anyone come up with a way to disguise these? Been looking for sticky back plastic in wood finish to make “patches” but to no avail 😐
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Gingernuts said:
Bought a toilet roll holder and two towel holders for the van last year. Needless to say the cheap Chinese sh@t fell apart, leaving the self adhesive pads behind! Despite heating them up with a hairdryer the pads ripped off the paper veneer leaving 3 unsightly marks 3 inches wide x 2 inches tall! Anyone come up with a way to disguise these? Been looking for sticky back plastic in wood finish to make “patches” but to no avail 😐
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You could try using fine felt tip pens to recreate the grain. Of course, you'd have to do a colour match first and practice on some paper to get used to doing it.

EDIT - It would help to go over the edge with some of the strokes, too, so you don't get a blunt 'join' between the original and the drawn on bit :)
 
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Gingernuts said:
Bought a toilet roll holder and two towel holders for the van last year. Needless to say the cheap Chinese sh@t fell apart, leaving the self adhesive pads behind! Despite heating them up with a hairdryer the pads ripped off the paper veneer leaving 3 unsightly marks 3 inches wide x 2 inches tall! Anyone come up with a way to disguise these? Been looking for sticky back plastic in wood finish to make “patches” but to no avail 😐
Help!
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You will never find a patch to match. I would stick on another holder or something decorative.
 
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Get a set of coloured crayons with "matching" browns (assuming wood grained finish) and colour-in to disguise. Use different shades to give grain effect.
 
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The difficulty you will have is where it has taken the surface off it will be ultra absorbent. If you are careful with a small brush put some clear varnish, or possibly just PVA and let it dry thoroughly before attempting to colour over it. You will need a steady hand and loads of patience if trying to recreate the grain effect. If you buy something like a Perspex plate or splashback to cover it, (glue it on) and then fit the new holder on top.
 
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I have in a previous van removed a shelf, in my case a hugh cupboard shelf, and left it to soak in water, l was then able to carefully remove the whole of the shelfs upper surface and used that to affect repairs to a shelf that was non removable, a perfect match.
I then simply varnished the bare surface of the donor shelf which was plywood as it could not be seen.
 
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rosalan said:
Can you not match the original paper?
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Always difficult. If it was melamine it's relatively easy, but you really need the manufacturers to tell you what boards they used then approach the supplier.
 
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Gellyneck said:
Get a set of coloured crayons with "matching" browns (assuming wood grained finish) and colour-in to disguise. Use different shades to give grain effect.
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Or alternatively, why not use wax sticks as used to cover furniture scratches.
I believe available in a wide range of brown shades.
Still think a picture might help though.
 
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meanders said:
Always difficult. If it was melamine it's relatively easy, but you really need the manufacturers to tell you what boards they used then approach the supplier.
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The coverings used are known as 'foils' Ibelieve, and are widely used in the Kitchen unit industry.
They are paper based and laminated to board using high pressure bonding.
You could always try google to look for such a manufacturer of bonded sheet board as I belive their are a few in the UK who make for the kitchen cabinet industry.
Try www.skai.com.
 
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