Advices on choosing countertop for your kitchen cabinets
Advices on choosing countertop for your kitchen cabinets
-posted by Allen from Daban |countertop,kitchen
Advices on choosing countertop for your kitchen cabinetsAdvices on choosing countertop for your kitchen cabinetsAdvices on choosing countertop for your kitchen cabinets , the quality of your kitchen cabinet determines the level of your kitchen, and as an important part of the cabinet, the countertop is the most easy to be watched, and its material can reflect the value of the cabinet even the whole kitchen, so it is significant to choose a suitable countertop for your kitchen.
Currently, there are hundreds of different brands of countertop , so we can not make a decision just according to its
surface express and its price, we must take its practicality and various materials into account.The following lists are some types of countertop materials for your reference , including its brief introduction, advantages,disadvantages.
1 Artificial stone countertop .
Nowadays, artificial stone countertop is very popular in the market,, such as quartz seamless man-made stone countertop
is also widely used in kitchen. Thanks to the mature process in the society now, this material are wear-resistant, anti-acid, temperature resistant, impact resistant, hard to bend, water-proof etc. And it possesses perfect property of stain resistant due to its seamless clear surface, what's more, this material can be bonded seamlessly any whereany time, when two blocks bonded you will find that they are totally one, however, its disadvantages are obvious as its advantage , it is the high price. Note worth is the quality of artificial stone varies from the different process, so it is wise to choose the good reputation brand with what you really need.
2 Natural stone countertop.
Granite and marble are two kind traditional materials among natural stone and often used in the top of a kitchen cabinet,
so let's just talk to the two, they all have the natural grains and strips and hard surface, strong hardness to prevent scraping, and they are economical on price, various designs and colors are available for the two. Disadvantage is that their length is limited when we use, and the most apparent weakness is that they are inharmonious when two parts join together, what's worse is the crack there is easy to breed bacteria, and this material are fragile, it is very easy to break when get some heavy knock, Natural stone is formed after weathering of tens of thousands of years, so some of them may be inevitably
radioactive and toxic, note worth is we should care where they do somenecessary artificial process or not,and it is good to require suppliers do some testing of radiation.
3 Hpl board countertop.
Known as fire board, but the countertop is easily eroded and humid by water, if improperly used, can lead to unglued ,
distortions, stop expansion of the consequences.
Advantages: bright color , the performance of Wear resistant, high temperature resistant is good, it can give a person
with a new feeling, and ambry mesa height consistent, complementary with embedded gas burner, increase the aesthetic feeling, Weakness: easy to be wet by water erosion, improper use, degumming the expansion of the deformation of base material can lead to serious consequences.
4 Stainless steel countertop.
Advantages: strong hardness, easy to clean, good practicability. Disadvantages: giving hard and cold mood
from visual, its corner and constraints lack of reasonable and effective means of processing, less applicable to civil kitchen etc.