{"id":528,"date":"2024-06-07T13:10:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T13:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbs.caricamedia.co.uk\/?p=528"},"modified":"2024-07-29T12:01:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T12:01:21","slug":"quartzvsgranite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbsstonecollection.co.uk\/blog\/quartzvsgranite\/","title":{"rendered":"Worktops – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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QUARTZ OR GRANITE?<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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When you are trying to create a new look or setting for your kitchen, selecting the perfect worktop can be difficult and time-consuming. There is a large selection of worktop materials available including Quartz, Granite, Marble and Sintered Stone – also known as Ceramic\/Porcelain.<\/p>

Choosing the right worktop material for your lifestyle, space and budget is super important. Your ideal kitchen worktop should have a unique style, durability and require low maintenance. In this blog, we\u2019re going to focus on two of the main worktop materials that we fabricate here in West Sussex – Quartz and Granite. Other surfaces and materials will covered in our next blog.<\/p>

When deciding on what material to use for your kitchen worktop, you can\u2019t go wrong with picking Quartz or Granite. Both of these materials will provide a wonderful solution for your new kitchen. Each worktop surface comes with their own benefits\u2026<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Quartz worktops are fabricated from natural quartz, one of the hardest minerals. Small amounts of glass or metallic flecks are added to create variety, resulting in beautiful worktops. Another advantage of quartz is that it is a non-porous material, its texture does not allow bacteria to grow and resists against stains, protecting your family and making your kitchen easy to clean and maintain. For this reason, quartz worktops never need to be sealed.<\/p>

Aside from the durability that quartz provides, this material is beautiful and its wide variety of colour options are sure to catch your eye. Your options are nearly endless as quartz ranges from natural colours such as whites, blacks and browns to other colours such as golds or blues. The design of a quartz worktop not only brings character to your kitchen but offers performance advantages that exceed other traditional materials.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Another one of the most commonly used materials for worktops is granite. Like quartz, this material is also very resilient. Granite is a natural rock that is cut in its natural state and is then polished for use in homes. Maintenance after each use is suggested to prevent staining with granite. To clean granite, use warm water and soap to help keep its shine.<\/p>

Such a strong material is difficult to scratch and is able to resist certain temperature changes. Kitchens will need to be planned around the slab that is chosen due to variation of block colours.<\/p>

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Affordable Marble, Granite, Quartz & Natural Stone Worktops.
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June 15, 2020 Worktops – Part 1 QUARTZ OR GRANITE? When you are trying to create a new look or setting for your kitchen, selecting the perfect worktop can be difficult and time-consuming. There is a large selection of worktop materials available including Quartz, Granite, Marble and Sintered Stone – also known as Ceramic\/Porcelain. Choosing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbsstonecollection.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbsstonecollection.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbsstonecollection.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbsstonecollection.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbsstonecollection.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/lbsstonecollection.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/lbsstonecollection.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbsstonecollection.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbsstonecollection.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbsstonecollection.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbsstonecollection.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}