1. Stainless steel desktop
Advantages: Stainless steel countertops are durable, easy to clean and very economical.
Disadvantages: stainless steel countertops are single in color, not warm and lack of warmth. They are no longer favored by people in the popular home atmosphere that emphasizes individuality and advocates returning to nature.
Reference price: 200 yuan/meter.
2. Natural stone
Natural stones include marble, granite, jade and other stones.
Advantages: natural stone is hard, corrosion-resistant, wear-resistant, waterproof, fireproof, easy to clean, natural and beautiful.
Disadvantages: The length of natural stone should not be too long. If the desktop is made of natural stone, there will be seams on the desktop, which will be difficult to clean and easy to hide after a long time.
Reference price: 300-500 yuan/meter.
3. Rock slab
A new material, which can be understood as an upgraded version, is a new category derived from large ceramic plates and thin ceramic plates. It consists of natural minerals, which are pressed by a press of more than 10,000 tons and then fired at high temperature.
Advantages: extremely high heat resistance, safety, health and environmental protection, antibacterial and bacteriostatic, scratch resistance, corrosion resistance, high hardness, large specifications, beautiful appearance and special texture.
Disadvantages: expensive.
Reference price: 600- 1000/ m.
4. Quartz stone
Quartz stone is a large plate made of quartz stone crystal, resin and trace pigment by isomerization polymerization technology under vacuum. This is an artificial stone.
Advantages: hard and dense texture, wear resistance, pressure resistance, high temperature resistance, corrosion resistance, permeability resistance and other characteristics, rich colors, great texture, and most importantly, the price of quartz stone countertops is relatively economical.
Reference price: pure white watch 400 yuan/meter, 300 yuan/meter with small patterns.
Generally speaking, quartz stone has strong anti-pollution ability, acid resistance, corrosion resistance, wear resistance, easy cleaning and strong anti-pollution ability. Bright color, no pores on the surface, and oil stains and water stains are not easy to penetrate into it.
When buying kitchen countertops, I tried to compare the advantages of Shi Ying countertops with other countertops: First, it looks better than stainless steel countertops; Secondly, it can be bonded seamlessly at any length, and two pieces are polished with the same material adhesive, which is seamless, and natural stone does not have this characteristic; Third, the price of quartz stone has an absolute advantage over rock slab.
To sum up, quartz stone countertops have incomparable advantages over other materials, which is the most economical and practical choice for kitchen countertops and the final choice for my kitchen countertops.