Reasons for Choosing Quartz Worktops for Your Home

REASONS FOR CHOOSING QUARTZ WORKTOPS FOR YOUR HOME Quartz worktops in interior design have swiftly become the material of the present and future both and for a number of reasons. These are primarily for aesthetic reasons, maintenance and cost. The following paragraphs outline these advantages in detail.

Aesthetics Unlike many other worktop materials, and these include such materials as glass or various laminates, quartz easily allows you to create a customized appearance for your worktop. The manufacturer can, without any issue at all, produce slabs of quartz to order in exactly the pattern, texture and the colour you require to bring the best out of your kitchen interiors. Additionally, since quartz is not mined like some other materials used for worktops such as granite nor then requiring being cut into the correct shaped slabs, the manufacturers of quartz worktops can create surfaces that are incredibly beautiful and exceptionally easy to tailor to specifications. Also they can be created with a variety of different finishes from a shiny surface to a more conservative muted satin appearance.

Colour is also another area where the aesthetics of quartz worktops are at an advantage, most other worktops materials being dyed for commercial uses, whereas quartz is utilised in its original natural form. The colours will not fade through regular use and will maintain the same appearance years down the line as they displayed from the first day they were produced.

Similar to granite, quarts worktops also have seams that are somewhat visible upon occasion but these are far easier to hide in quartz than in granite. Choosing a dark quartz worktop or a worktop with a flat solid colour will aid this, but seams can also be coloured, polished and coated to help mask those remaining seams that are still apparent to the eye.

Maintenance Because quartz is non-porous, harmful micro organisms such as bacteria present no problem.

Providing no nooks and crannies for the said organisms to thrive and survive you end up with a far more sanitary surface. There is no need for the use of expensive anti-bacterial cleaning agents and solutions as can be the case with other materials. The worktop surface can be easily washed down with soap and water which is enough to maintain appearance and cleanliness both.

Quartz is also a highly durable material, as you would expect from a stone (which quartz is of course) which results in an extremely tough substance which proves stronger than the majority of its competitors. One of the greatest advantages of this is that it is extraordinarily scratch and stain resistant and will look great far beyond the number of years that you'd expect from a worktop which is subject to day after day of use and abuse.

Cost Although so much more beneficial on so many counts, providing beauty and durability in equal measure, quartz is nonetheless far more affordable than other materials such as granite. Prices do vary of course depending upon requirements, the same as anything else, but you can be sure with quartz that you never have to break the bank to get the very best in quality and looks.