Does anyone have experience with Quartz countertops for the kitchen? We are considering it as an option instead of granite or solid surface (i.e. Corian). Thanks.
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I'm dying..really..I'm so out of touch not to have figured that those with more money than they can imaginatively spend would reach this far for their kitchen countertop -- quartz, what's next? Go home. It's over.
Isn't the Silestone product made from quartz and a binder?
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. T. Roosevelt
Yep, and so is Cambria, the first "natural quartz" countertop maker Google led me to. In fact, their web site proclaims "100% natural quartz" more than a few times. It's not till you get to question #9 in the FAQ that they tell you it's 100% natural quartz plus a little dab of pigment and epoxy.
Pardon my earlier rant. Now I get it -- it's an engineered product based upon quartz. Why did I initially picture a bunch of crystals glued to a substrate?
picture a bunch of crystals glued to a substrate Because somewhere, in a McMansion of questionable taste and excess money, that has probably been done.Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. T. Roosevelt
Ed, In Lafayette Louisianna I found a neighborhood designed by unemployed Casino Archys.
Think of Cesar's Palace done small next to Circus Circus and so on.
Only the neon lights were missing.
The one I was in had the full on Sub Zero kitchen with granit ect. Woman did not and could not cook.
An impressive display of "I have more money than the guy next door"
Joe H
Why did I initially picture a bunch of crystals glued to a substrate?
You mean like this...only horizontal?PJ
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I'm putting quartz among the two tons of stone I got for the base around my house under the siding. My kids and I went to those North Carolina places where you pan for gems and ended up with a bunch of pretty stones among which are some nice chunks of quartz crystals. I thought it would be fun to place them amongst the Cherry stone that I'm busting up to skirt the perimeter on angle iron against the ICF.
Sorry to butt into another thread, but your image of crystal countertops made me do it.
Jeff
http://www.caesarstone.com/
This is a quartz type of counter top, I built the kitchen cab's and also did the counter tops, never worked with any stone tops before.
I was able to barrow some of the necessary tools from the mason that we use and did all of the work.If the client would of wanted some sort of profile on the edge I would not of been able to do it.
Edited 6/13/2004 11:59 pm ET by Doug@es