More About Granite
Why Granite Tops?
Granite is a natural stone of immerse beauty; it is available in many colours and finishing styles and ideal for granite kitchen tops and bathroom vanity tops.
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Granite tops adds instant value to your home;
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Granite Kitchen Tops is strong, very durable and easy to clean as it does not attract dirt. Granite kitchens are extremely hygienic;
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Granite is water and chemical resistant, it does not scratch or stain and it is a good way to protect your cupboards against water and moist;
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Every granite slab is unique – each kitchen will be unique in its own beauty;
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Granite Tops is heat resistant and ideal to be used around your stove area;
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Granite is one of the hardest natural materials in existence. It does not usually chip or crack, but it is easily replaceable in the event of an unforeseen mishap.
Granite is more expensive than wooden tops but still affordable. Granite offers many benefits in high usage areas like bathrooms and kitchens. Granite is an investment which more than pays off over the years in terms of ease, convenience, cleanliness, low maintenance cost, durability and aesthetics.
There is no substitute to granite! A study conducted in the USA revealed that for every R5 000 spent on granite (kitchens, bathrooms, etc.) the value of your home escalates with R18 000.
Granite Facts
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Granite is a tough, durable rock composed primarily of three different minerals;
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These minerals are easy to see due to their different colours;
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The light gray, glass-like grains are quartz, and the black, flake-like grains are biotite or black mica;
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Granite usually has a medium to coarse grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals (phenocrysts) are larger than the groundmass in which case the texture is known as porphyritic;
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Granite can be pink to dark gray or even black, depending on their chemistry and mineralogy;
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Granite is an igneous rock and is formed from magma. Granitic magma has many potential origins but it must intrude other rocks;
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Most granite intrusions are emplaced at depth within the crust, usually greater than 1.5 kilometres and up to 50 km depth within thick continental crust;
