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Laurie Crum
Co-Authors: Stacy Gilmore

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As an interior designer for home renovations, I get questions about the pros and cons of various types of counters frequently.Of course, any kind with their good and bad, and not only an important factor in the overall look that you achieve in the renovation project, durability and ease of maintenance. Daunran some of the most common types of materials and their strengths and weaknesses of the counter is here as follows.

Granite: a few good reasons that granite has become fashionable lately.

Pros: It’s beautiful nature, unique work of each, it is quite generous, strong, easy to clean with a damp cloth, and they heat very durable, it has a variety of colors. To argue why it is not very difficult. If you seal every few years is usually required. Some suppliers of granite, which is currently in force, the sealing means 15 years or life, this product is expensive.

Disadvantages: It can be expensive, but it can stain – bright colors, especially for some people – and seal a few years, they need more care. Each plate is because you do not trust that look the same sample, if you buy it, you must select the exact drive.

Quartz Design (also generally Caesarstone Silestone, Zodiac, Hanstone, also known as Cambria and many others).

To: artificial stone is made of 93 percent quartz and 7% consist of resin and pigment. It is available in a wide range of colors to resist with a non-porous surface to resist scratches. It is without repetition is necessary to seal natural stone, maintenance is easy. In addition, each plate will provide a consistent look, the same as below. It is not stable and all cracks and crevices of course, it is suitable for food preparation and clean up easily with mild soap and water.

Disadvantages: Expensive, is not proof of the heat.

Soapstone: Soapstone is a metamorphic rock called soapstone.It has three different elements, talc, magnesium and chlorite – So, how difficult it is, in relation to each of these parts in some of soapstone, which is softening. Talk is often involved, is a softer stone. Therefore, it is used to counter the laboratory are generally inert and is resistant to acids and alkalis. It feels a mild soap, so it has a name. It also varies in color from dark gray to bluish green and black. Because it is a natural product, it can change the color and pulse of the plate.

Pros: It is inert, so damaged by harsh chemicals spot again, it gives the appearance of a relaxed atmosphere, a very shy to fireplace chimneys pizza stones are heated typically used, etc.
Disadvantages: It is easily scratched, they worry if you by polishing with sandpaper to remove scratches must be repaired.Most people turn oil soap to the end of the regular maintenance means dark. There is also a bit expensive – about average quality granite or high-end.

Concrete: be for the finished product, including sinks and counters used to design many in those days. The owners of some, please try DIY concrete counter, but will strengthen a shape, color, make, as long as the abilities of a professional to seal the concrete and we advise you to reconsider your position.Professionally made up on the concrete, usually made of plastic, was sometimes added to the sentence.

Benefits through an almost infinite number of colors and edge details of the concrete can be finished in concrete to part of a benevolent design and drainage will create embedded board is shown that the heat is usually the seams. The joints, or can be shaped into any desired shape, and it is possible to form an integrated sink.

Disadvantages: Sealed Although this seal the stain resistance of a margin he needs at regular intervals – it is still stained, cracked or broken concrete – can be strengthened in order to minimize this, but is likely still is, and the need to work to which can produce up to be expensive, as much as granite.

Solid surface (Corian is a common brand battery Haim, Avonite, Wilson Art, Formica, and many others, among them). Prior to the solid surface is to be done in relation to nature can not receive, allow a man of color and texture patterns.

Pros: You get a very consistent pattern and color – your counter is selected as the sample, they are easy to clean, can be permanently integrated into the rule can be formed on the sink, you can manufacture products as drainage stone plate, which they expensive the need to essentially prevent not maintain, you can not see the normal joint function has a variety of colors and aggregates.

Disadvantages: It can be scratched and there is no heat, stains and other high-end products to see how.

Stainless steel: The material used for a long period of commercial kitchens and more popular for the modern home-style cooking now.

Pros: As the name implies, there will not stain, it is easy to clean, it is permanent, it needs not a seam, which made to withstand the heat, very professional, and offer a contemporary look.
Cons: scratches, dents, is that you can not hide the fact, but it is expensive, some people can see that it is cold and sterile.

Wood / Butcher Block

Pros: It comes in a variety of wood colors, provide a pleasant feeling of warmth, it can be easy to clean, specialty, and it can be more expensive than other types of meters.
Disadvantages: You have been sealed with beeswax and mineral oil on a daily basis, the wounds, burns can be cut and dyed must have, can, by the action of water c ‘is the time to be damaged.

Ceramics and porcelain.

Advantages: The tiles are relatively inexpensive, durable and easy to clean and can range from homeowners and experts, and some spirit to be installed, but it has a heat resistance, color and texture and almost unlimited design and a variety of ways.

Disadvantages: The tiles can chip or break contaminated seals, which can be colored or joints, will create an uneven surface counters.

Laminate: Laminate, so it is relatively inexpensive, maybe it’s generally easy to clean, sustainable and appropriate use of meters long been the norm. It is now necessary to look more upscale, not a favor to ask of most homeowners. Popular brands, Wilson Art, Nevamar, Formica and to understand. The manufacturer of laminate has a good job of making the laminate surface, as only a solid surface or granite look. So for a limited budget, a good laminate can mimic the look of luxury.

Pros: Sturdy, easy to clean, inexpensive and come in a variety of colors enables high-end product that you basically mimic the maintenance.

Cons: Excessive exposure to moisture, can be stained, you can scratch and chip – it can be detached from its base, the product does not tolerate heat like stone, usually appears as a seam.

And all the choices and the pros and cons of the counter, it might seem overwhelming to choose one for your home. Summit Design is the designer of the renovation is more than happy to choose the best for you. We, the 703 service to all customers and the Maryland suburbs of Northern Virginia can be reached 537-0930.