Engineered quartz worktops are the most common of all stone surfaces, with all round great resistances they are generally the better option for budgeting kitchen worktops. Most quartz colours, designs and patterns attempt to imitate their natural counterparts, granite, marble and limestone, leading to some vast and interesting variations.
What is
Quartz?
Why choose
Quartz?
Is Quartz
the best?
Natural granite is one of the toughest materials on earth, with its natural resistances, granite kitchen worktops are a great option to consider. With an endless choice on colours, patterns and veins, it is quaranteed that you'll have a unique worktop that anyone who visits will admire.
How is
Granite Formed?
Diverse in its colours, patterns and veining, marble breathes luxury in all its applications, however, it is not the toughest choice for kitchen worktops. Marble is well suited for many other household decorative projects such as vanity tops, luxurious bathrooms, hard wearing floors, table tops, fire surrounds and feature walls.
How is
Marble Formed?
Quartzite is literally the hardest natural worktop material and is rising in polularity, especially this year as kitchen worktops. With its striking veins, opacity and lighter colours, quartzite, has a quartz content of over 90% making for very high resistances. A quartzite worktop is a durable alternative to its parent rocks limestone and marble.
How is
Quartzite Formed?
Engineered for its extraordinarily high resistances, Dekton is a perfect material choice as large format tiles for walls & flooring indoors and out. Rising in popularity as kitchen worktops, it is plentiful in colours, designs and surface finishes, however, fabrication of this tough material does have some restrictions.
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Lapitec is an engineered, sintered stone, boasting 100% natural minerals and no resins in its nature imitating manufacturing process. Lapitecs High resistances as well as being completely weatherproof, makes its versatility in a wide range of applications in construction and furnishing projects difficult to rival.
Slate is a natural material with high resistances, making it ideal for applications indoors and outdoors. Slates durability, high heat resistance and rustic appearances makes it great as kitchen worktops, however, of late it has become a popular choice for many other applications such as hearths, tiling, outdoor bars, flooring and steps.
Manufactured from a mixture of acrylic polymers, minerals and colourants, Corian is a durable solid surface that is non-porous and easy to clean. Corian is renowned for its seemless installation and used for modern interiors, office, education, student accommodation, and slowly increasing demand for its use as ktichen worktops.
Natural Limestone Worktops
As a parent rock to marble, natural Limestone resistances are very similar. Limestone is popular for construction and architecture because of its durability. Recent fabrication of limestone have been for sills, floor tiles, steps, bath surrounds, it is not a likely candidate as kitchen worktops.
How is
Limestone Formed?
