Kitchen Quartz countertops let you bring the best of both worlds - nature and science - to your kitchen, bathroom and throughout your home. Explore the drama and beauty of nature without sacrificing the performance of science. Quartz countertops are incredibly durable, are resistant to scratches, look fabulous and are the new worry-free, elegant alternative to other high-maintenance options for your kitchen. Granite au Sommet offers Silestone by Consentino, Caesarstone, Samsung Radianz and Hanstone quartz surfaces.
Quartz offers a sophisticated elegance and timeless beauty and delivers distinctive depth, brilliant clarity, glimmering radiance and a cool, solid unique feel to natural stone. You've seen and felt it in homes, in your local trendy shops, banks, restaurants, spas and hotels. Quartz surfaces have been used in upmarket homes around the world for more than 15 years but have more recently entered the Montreal and Quebec market in grandiose fashion. Granite au Sommet offer premium kitchen quartz countertop: Silestone, Caesarstone, Santa Margherita and .
Thanks to increased manufacturer product development, quartz premium countertops are in high demand as a must-have in new and remodeled kitchens, homes and businesses.
Quartz countertops are experiencing incredible growth which is driven by the style, luxury and durability. Quartz are growing in popularity because they have the appearance of natural stone with none of the maintenance.
Quartz is the most durable manufactured stone kitchen countertop you can purchase for a worksurface. Granite is a very hard but because it is a natural product you have variations of hardness and porosity inherent within the material as you would with hardwoods for example; these are not issues that are consistent within quartz.
Quartz (Silicon Dioxide) is the most common mineral on the earth's surface. It is present in nearly every geological environment and is a component of almost every rock type and exists in an impressive range of varieties of patterns and colours. Kitchen Quartz countertops are manufactured with up to 93 percent quartz and seven percent pigments and resins and with quartz being a man made material the colour of each piece is laboratory controlled so in areas requiring the use of multiple slabs of material, colour variation is not an issue. There are mottled as well as singular colours available along with other finishes such as antiqued, leather and honed. The colour options for quartz amount to an impressive 600+ if you take all manufacturers into consideration.
A quartz countertop doesn’t need to be polished or sealed like granite countertops . Quartz countertops are man made and are non-porous so staining, mould and bacteria are not an issue. Owing to being non-porous certain quartz countertops have kosher certification.
Quartz is naturally scratch-resistant. Only three other natural minerals - diamond, sapphire and topaz - are harder than quartz. Quartz is a seven on Mohs Hardness Scale (diamond is a 10). So, while a careless slip of the knife will scratch most other countertops such as laminates and solid surfaces, it won't leave a mark on Quartz countertops . Although durable, it is not scratch-proof; it could be damaged with excessive force or pressure. Quartz stone surfaces have four times the flexural strength and double the impact resistance of granite while impressively outperforming marble.
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