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Originally Posted by DETRoadster
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Originally Posted by RickFLM4
Thanks! It is Brittanicca Quartz (from Cambria). Tiles in shower and on floor are all porcelain - no natural stone used. Some friends have used marble, which looks awesome, but requires a fair amount of maintenance. We decided functionality and lower maintenance were high priorities for the project.
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Ah, very nice. We looked at Cambria as well. Cambria definitely minis the look of natural stone very well. It was #2 on our list. The thing that tipped us over to the Pental was that they have a warehouse here in Seattle and allow the public to come in and select their slab. Haven't gotten to that point just yet. Should be this week though.
I hear you on the maintenance of natural stone. I found our granite counters in our last kitchen to be impossible to maintain; completely frustrating. There was always this haze on them.
Anyway, the finished product looks great and is inspiring to those of us who are part way through to keep pressing on. All the effort, expense, splinters, bashed fingers, etc. are totally worth it in the end!  |
Yeah we've had issues with our kitchen granite as well. We had a small crack behind the faucet. We got it repaired and now have another. We have had it for 15 years but expected it to last forever. Perhaps we will replace it with quartz if it gets worse but don't want it to turn into a kitchen remodel.
One thing we did with quartz is get 3cm thick vs. 2cm granite in kitchen. It looks better and isn't much more expensive. We think the kitchen cracks are happening because of metal inserted in the granite by the original installer that is rusting and screwing up the granite. That metal wouldn't have been required is we had 3cm granite. Hindsight is 20/20.