What is the best material for the countertops
Natural stone marble
Advantages: rich color, texture is more soft, natural texture, easy to cut or engraving;
Disadvantages: because it is a natural formation, fine and easy to break the crack, the stone is a porous material structure, production, transportation or construction, such as sewage infiltration, difficult to clean, prone to rupture. In the daily cleaning, there will inevitably be some residue and dirt with rag wipe and fill the cracks become a hotbed of bacteria. Natural stone in the long process of formation, due to the existence of heavy metal material more or less will have a certain radiation, may be harmful to human health.
Granite
Advantages: Granite density, high hardness, the surface is very wear-resisting, but also one of the materials used in family decoration, compared with natural marble can be used in the kitchen table materials, granite, the ability to resist bacteria.
Disadvantages: as a cabinet table material natural stone length is not long, so want to make the whole table (especially U type, L type table), it will be a joint, these joints are also easy to hide dirt.
Artificial quartz stone
Advantages: artificial stone lines and color rich, can be comparable with the stone, and the non toxic and non radioactive, easy to clean, can really achieve seamless splicing. Belong to the economic environmental protection and health type material.
Disadvantages: artificial stone is a processing industry, the technical requirements are not high, many small enterprises production of inferior products flooding the market, damage the interests of consumers. Some middle and low product also exist the problems such as fade color, anti - aging, oil and so on.