Quartz stone quality distinguishing method

The standard thickness of quartz stone is generally 1.5-3cm.  Quartz stone is mainly made of 93% quartz and 7% resin, hardness can reach 7 degrees, abrasion resistance, easy to clean, belongs to a relatively heavy stone.  Quartz stone processing cycle is long, commonly used to make the cabinet table, quartz stone made of the cabinet table is beautiful and generous, easy to take care of, but also very durable, very popular with consumers.  

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Quartz stone kitchen countertop price  

The price of quartz stone kitchen countertop is mainly related to the finish and hardness of quartz stone,. If the degree of finish and hardness are higher, the price is more expensive.

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How to distinguish good and bad quartz stone  

Quartz stone quality mainly depends on its  degree of finish. The low degree of finish will absorb color, because quartz stone is mainly used to make the countertop,it is hard to avoid soy sauce, cooking oil kind of color liquid. If it is easy to absorb color infiltration into the worktop, the top will become flower, very ugly after use for a short time.  Identification method is to take a marker on the quartz stone table a few strokes, after a few minutes to wipe, if you can wipe very clean on behalf of the smoothness is good, and will not absorb color.  Otherwise, don’t buy enough. 

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Hardness is an important index for quartz stone to be qualified. Hardness mainly relies on abrasion resistance to identify, because the real quartz is very hard, ordinary metal can not scratch it. You can ask the boss for an edge material and scratch with their steely knives. If we can draw a mark, and there are on powder on both sides of mark, that means false quartz stone.  Real quartz stone is difficult to be cut by steel knife and there will only leave worn mark by knife.

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Quartz stone countertop maintenance  

Although quartz stone countertop hardness is very high, it is not particularly heat resistant. It can only withstand the temperature of 300 degrees below. If above, it may cause countertop deformation and cracking.  So soup pot should not be directly on the table when just off the fire.

In addition, person should not directly stand on the cabinet table, which may be uneven due to stress caused by countertop cracking.  


Post time: Aug-20-2021