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Quartz

About your new quartz countertop

Like quarried stone, quartz has particulate concentrations (up to the size of a quarter size), some color variations, and dispersed white quartz. These small concentrations, color variations, and white quartz are natural.

Small samples may give you a different perception of color, texture, or patterns than when the entire application is completed. The installed color may be more or less intense, the particulate concentrations more or less pronounced, and the shading more or less obvious.

Like quarried stone, it is impossible to do a seamless or seemingly seamless installation of quartz. Quartz countertop seams and lamination lines are visible and can be felt. Countertop seams will be flush +/- 1/32” (the thickness of a credit card).

Granite & Quartzite

About your new granite or quartzite countertop

Since granite and quartzite are natural products, characteristics such as color, pattern, texture, and veining will vary from piece to piece. Many colors have significant variations within a room, such that individual pieces within a room will vary in shading, coloring, and or pattern from each other.
The characteristics of a particular sample will not be uniformly present in other samples of the same color. A sample serves only to show the color, markings, and texture typically found in a block of granite or quartzite. The samples you view may have been quarried at different times and may come from different areas of the quarry than the slabs used in your home; therefore, the sample will not match and may actually be quite different from the product installed in your home. Color, pattern, texture, and veining will also vary from countertop to countertop.
Countertop seams can be seen and felt. Artisan countertops will have more seam deviation due to the nature of the textured finish. Granite or quartzite slabs are not always perfectly flat, causing some seams to be uneven from front to back.

Engineered Marble

About your new engineered marble countertop

The perception of color, texture, patterns, etc. in a smaller sample may be slightly different when the entire application is completed. For example, the color may be more or less intense, the particulate concentrations more or less pronounced, and the shading more or less obvious.

Engineered marble seams are visible and can be felt. While the maximum size of a piece of engineered marble is 62”x95”, seam placements will vary and runs are NOT guaranteed to be full sheets.