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Acara Grey Quartzite
Acara Grey quartzite is a Brazilian natural stone displaying delicate grey veins across a stunning off-white backdrop. It is a sustainable decoration material, made-to-order by our skilled stonemasons, allowing us to reduce waste and put the most incredible attention and love into each worktop. Read More
Acara Grey quartzite is a Brazilian natural stone displaying delicate grey veins across a stunning off-white backdrop. It is a sustainable decoration material, made-to-order by our skilled stonemasons, allowing us to reduce waste and put the most incredible attention and love into each worktop.
Since this charming grey worktop is custom-made for you, production on this item begins the minute you submit your purchase. Allow one week for us to create and install your Acara Grey quartzite countertop from scratch.
This worktop comprises 100% natural stone and raw minerals. It is long-lasting, heat, impact and scratch-resistant. In addition, it offers the best stain resistance in granite and quartzite materials, making them easy to clean and maintain if you don’t have time for special care.
It is ideal for kitchens, bathrooms, utility rooms, gardens, patios, hallways, and dining spaces. So invest in a stunning Acara Grey quartzite worktop today!
Meet The White Quartzite Stone You Should Experience
This charming off-white quartzite offers a refined look, high heat, and stain resistance with various shades of white behind an exciting pattern of stunning linear veins in grey. In addition, Acara Grey quartzite rates as high as granite on the Moh’s Scale of hardness, making it a resilient and durable work surface.
Other names: The generic name of this stone is Acara quartzite, and if you are looking for slabs of this material for your home, we also offer this stone under the following terms: Acara granite, Grey Acara Quartzite, and Acara Quartzite Grey.
Unlike marble or limestone, his natural quartzite surface will resist etching, ensuring the worktop does not alter its pattern or colour.
Origins of a Lifetime Surface
Acara quartzite is quarried in the north of Brazil, alongside some of the most renowned stones from the region: Calacatta Brazil and Macaubas White quartzite. Made from one of the planet’s most refined and robust minerals, Acara Grey displays a rainbow of grey patterns with superior and versatile design outcomes. It is created by Mother Nature to outperform any other worktop you’ve ever had.
7 Advantages of Using Acara Grey Quartzite as Worktops, Walls, and Floors.
- Low upkeep: A Acara Grey quartzite worktop requires very little maintenance and is easy to clean.
- Refined Look: Natural quartzite provides a unique and exotic look to any environment, with unusual colours and patterns coming from remote locations.
- Everlasting Homes: With a quartzite kitchen worktop, you can create expansive kitchen islands and floor-to-ceiling panels. Quartzite slabs have larger sizes than marble, limestone, slate and onyx. With quartzite, you may cover the walls of your house with designs comprising the best possible natural stone—quartzite offers low-maintenance and long-lasting performance.
- Striking natural colours: Natural quartzite comes in various colours and patterns ranging from whites, greys, beiges, and blacks and uses the full-colour spectrum with its natural minerals. You will find veins, swirls, patches, iron ore, golden tints, and more. So choose quartzite and bring vibrancy into your space!
- Premium material: Throughout the mining and production of natural quartzite, we carefully choose suppliers with clear sustainable and social goals. After their extraction, quartzite slabs go to Italy for finishing. It is because Italy has an unrivalled legacy of artistic stone craftsmanship are among the world’s most proficient stone fabricators and carvers. As a result, quartzite is frequently shipped to Italy in blocks to be cut and finished by expert Italian stonemasons before coming to the UK.
- Radiant and brilliant worktops: the stone provides various white quartzite worktops, each of which is distinctive and elegant. Similarly, you will find that the polished quartzite offers a glassy look that attracts light. Even black quartzite can make a dark interior more luminous.
- A beautiful alternative to marble: Quartzite looks like marble, but it is not calcific. It is the perfect companion for cooks that use various colouring ingredients and don’t want to worry about worktop stains.
3 Great Ways to Combine Acara Quartzite In Your Kitchen and Bathrooms
- When it comes to traditional designs and wooden woods, there isn’t much that doesn’t go together. These off-white quartzite worktops look great with mahogany kitchen cabinets. Darker colours of white quartzite worktops such as this one are a good alternative if you don’t want to deviate enormously from the standard white kitchen worktops.
- White quartzite worktops do not have to cover the entire length of the kitchen surfaces. The worktops in large kitchens with wood cabinetry and copper accents can be designed entirely of white quartzite. The Acara Grey worktop features a somewhat symmetrical pattern allowing you to choose this stone if you have an area of the kitchen or bathroom that needs to stand out.
- When designing a white kitchen, you can craft it tastefully down to the smallest detail. For example, you can use the cooking section of your worktop in black marble and the kitchen island in Acara Grey quartzite. It is an excellent approach to generate an impressive aesthetic and a distinction between the sections you use for doing the washing up and those you use for cooking.
We Seal Your Quartzite Worktops, So You Don’t Have to
Every time we receive a delivery of natural stone, our team of expert stonemasons seal the slabs before starting fabrication. Then, we shape your worktops, splashbacks, walls, and other pieces to perfection. After that, we will come to your home to carry out your kitchen worktop installation. Before completing your project, our worktop installers will seal your Grey Acara quartzite worktops for a second time, ensuring no dirt or bacteria can penetrate their surface.
In addition to repelling and absorbing liquids, our sealant acts as a barrier to protect the quartzite surface’s original sheen. Finally, we clear your countertops from any debris and leave your kitchen ready for use.
We recommend waiting a minimum of twelve hours from installation to the time you start using your worktops, giving the appropriate sealant time to embed into the countertop’s surface.
Acara Grey Quartzite Sizes, Thickness, Finishes
- Sizes: The slabs have a minimum dimension of 2.80 x 1.75m and a maximum size of 3.25 x 2.05 m.
- Finish: It is readily available in a polished finish. If you prefer honed quartzite or leather finish quartzite, we will treat it for you.
- Coverage: With one slab of natural quartzite, you can cover an area between 6 and 6.5 square meters of surface.
- Protection: All our quartzite worktops are pre-sealed and ready for regular use.
- Thicknesses: Acara Grey quartzite is available in 2 or 3 cm thickness.
Our production team specializes in creating bespoke Persian Green quartzite work surfaces, backsplashes, upstands, or installations to your specifications.
Use & Care of Acara Grey Quartzite
Caring for Acara Grey quartzite requires minimal effort. Our quartzite worktops come pre-sealed so that the surface shows no marks, stains, or blemishes and boasts incredible stain resistance.
Maintenance: To keep the worktop looking new, clean it with a light dish detergent or a PH-neutral cleaner. Cleaning using warm water and a moist cloth and gently stroking the surface layer produces the best outcomes. You must wash and dry the worktop after cleaning it to clear any residues from the surface.
Below are five simple recommendations to help you keep your quartzite worktops pristine for many years:
- Avoid placing very scorching things directly on the worktop. To avoid scratching the stone, we recommend using a chopping board.
- If any liquids fall on the worktop, wipe these up right away.
- Don’t chop straight on the worktop to avoid potential surface scratches.
- Avoid using harsh cleaners like metal scrubbing pads. Instead, to avoid damage, lightly brush the stone.
- Avoid using alkaline cleaners and highly acidic chemicals to avoid the potential harm to the granite or quartzite’s surface.
About Quartzite
Are you considering using quartzite as a kitchen worktop or splashback? -We want to ensure that you receive the finest advice, from material selection to completion of your project, and that your worktop fits your daily routines, style and lifestyle.
Here are four questions you may want to know more about before purchasing quartzite for your home, office or business:
How Is Quartzite Made?
Quartzite is a natural stone that was originally sandstone. Over millennia, the heat and pressure from biological processes transform the sandstone into quartzite by crystallizing its structure, providing the glassy appearance of the material.
Where does the name quartzite come from?
This stone’s term is ‘quartzite’ because it comprises primarily natural quartz (silica).
Are Quartzite and Quartz The Same?
Don’t confuse it with ‘quartz’, the generic term for engineered quartz. Quartz is the common term given to artificial stone materials currently on the market by brands such as Silestone, Caesarstone, Quartzforms, Compac Surfaces Company, etc.
Can Quartzite Handle Heat?
Yes. Quartzite can withstand temperatures of over 200°C without altering its surface. Furthermore, the melting temperature for quartzite starts at 625-650°C and has a maximum temperature of 900-1000°C. Unlike manufactured quartz, natural quartzite does not contain polymer resins, ensuring it never develops surface burning or scorching.
Would you like to know more about Acara Grey quartzite worktops? – Get in touch with our team to know more about this unique natural stone!
Quartzite is an ideal choice for any home or office space, especially for kitchens, and bathrooms.
It offers considerable benefits for interior applications, such as high resistance to staining and scratches. Please see below six additional advantages of using quartzite:
- Our natural quartzite collection is available in three distinct finishes: Polished, Honed, and Leathered.
- Quartzite is outdoor suitable, making it perfect them perfect for external worktops, garden walls, and floors.
- Each quartzite slab has unique patterns you will not see elsewhere as a natural material.
- Quartzite generally resists temperatures of 650 degrees Celsius.
- You can choose from an unlimited range of patterns and colours.
- It is available in thicknesses of 20mm and 30 mm.
Quartzite is a metamorphic rock that was once a sandstone. When sandstone suffers exposure to natural pressure and heat over long periods, it crystallizes its silica (natural quartz) content, becoming quartzite.
Quartzite has the following mineral composition (petrographical classification):
A siliceous natural stone composed primarily (90-99 per cent) of natural quartz. It may also contain trace amounts of iron oxide, zircon, magnetite, rutile and mica.
The compositions of quartzite change depending on the minerals composing each rock and its origins.
As a natural stone material, Acara Grey quartzite does not come with a product warranty.
However, if you are interested in purchasing quartzite with a warranty, you can select from our Sensa, Naturamia and Granith collections.
Acara Grey quartzite belongs to our Price Group 4 (four), representing a medium to a high price point.
The final cost of an Acara Grey quartzite countertop depends on the size of the pieces you require, the location, and the accessibility of the property for its installation, dictating the number of worktop installers your project requires.
Acara Grey quartzite comprises 100% raw minerals and includes natural quartz, feldspar, biotite mica, and garnet. There are no additives, colourants or resins. Thanks to the lack of calcific minerals, green quartzite's surface doesn't etch when exposed to acidic substances.
One of the critical features of quartzite is its longevity. According to the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, a natural stone worktop such as quartzite can last up to 100 years.
Yes. Unlike manufactured stones such as quartz and engineered marble, Acara quartzite comprises 100% natural minerals and is suitable for outdoors applications. In addition, the lack of resins in Grey Acara quartzite ensures that its colours don't fade or alter even when you install them outdoors.
Yes. Although the material is available in honed, another popular quartzite texture is the leather finish because it provides a matte surface with a delicate tactile finish.
Yes. Acara Grey quartzite, like any natural stone, is porous due to its surface's micro-permeable nature.
When a stone is porous, it can absorb liquids through micropores and its interfacial texture. To minimize quartzite's porosity, spread a natural stone sealant over the surface every 18-24 months.
Yes. If the chip or scratch in your quartzite worktop is over 5 mm deep, this part of the stone may discolour.
You can repair chips on Acara Grey quartzite by applying colour-matched stone resin, restoring the non-porosity in the affected area. A professional worktop installer may also buff the top layer of the quartzite to remove superficial scratches.
Yes. Acara Grey is a perfectly suitable quartzite for kitchens because, unlike other natural stones such as marble or limestone, it is not affected when exposed to acids from foods, juices, and other substances. In addition, Acara Grey quartzite has more impact resistance than granite and offers a higher heat resistance than quartz.
Here are the cleaning products and methods you can apply to clean Acara Grey Quartzite:
Depending on the type of stain on your quartzite worktop, you can use various poultices. Poultices are absorbent blends that you can apply to the worktop to remove tough stains from the surface. For example, when you mix two substances, you will create poultices that can remove deep stains from granite and quartzite.
These come as paper, gel or powder. Moreover, some poultices are absorbent and excellent for eliminating specific stains. Here are the nine most effective granite and quartzite stones:
- Talc
- Flour
- Chalk
- Clay
- Sepiolite
- Methylcellulose
- Sepiolite
- Diatomaceous earth
- Methylcellulose
Clay and diatomaceous earth are typically the best choices. However, if the clay or chalk contains iron, you should not use it. The acidic substances can react with the iron and create yellow staining, especially in light-coloured worktops.
RETURNS AND SHIPPING POLICY RETURNS
Except for damaged surfaces, all sales are final. Please call 020 39760029 or email HELLO@WORKTOPLIBRARY.CO.UK for more information before mailing exchanges or online purchasing return products installed in faulty or damaged condition.
SHIPPING \ TURNAROUND
We process all orders within one business day. However, specific stones may have longer lead times due to high demand or special-order items from other countries.
DELIVERY & INSTALLATION COSTS
We compute delivery and installation costs at the time of purchase. Our team of professional stone fitters install all stone surfaces.
Installation and delivery charges vary depending on weight, site access, and delivery location from our workshop in West London, United Kingdom.
INSTALLATION & DELIVERY ADDRESSES
Stone worktop installation is available in London and up to 150 miles of surrounding areas. Don't hesitate to get in touch with our Worktop Library Service Team at (20) 39760029.
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