How To Choose Good Engineered Quartz Stone

How To Distinguish The Quality of Engineered Quartz Stone 

With so much freedom of choice, you can create your dream kitchen with an engineered quartz kitchen worktop. 

Design beauty aside, artificial quartz has other great benefits. It is stain-resistant, scratch-resistant, and chip resistant. This makes for an incredibly tough, durable, high-performance material. Be confident that your quartz countertops will last for years.

So that will be a question. How to know if the engineered quartz stone is good in quality or bad? Below are 6 tips you should know.

1-Look At the Quartz Stone Surface

Good quality quartz stone slabs or countertops, quartz stone particles small and clear, with uniform distribution of particles; and fake particles of different sizes, distribution is not uniform.

2-Listen to the Sound of Quartz Knocking 

Take two pieces knocking each other, and listen to the sound, high hardness sound crisp, and the quartz stone content is relatively high, on the contrary, if the sound is dull, and sounds like plastic, it means that the quartz stone content is not high; this is the simplest way.

3-Knife Scratch the Quartz Surface

In regular production, quartz crystalline content of quartz stone has reached the standard hardness of Mo 6.5-7, with a hard object with - scratches, such as keys, or knife, there will be a shallow scratch, but it is easy to wipe off; if - scratch marks are very obvious, and can not be wiped off, it means that when processing added inferior materials.

4-Burn the Quartz 

Engineered Quartz stone contains resin and other trace pigments, a long time of burning will certainly leave traces, but very good clean-up, but 300 ° below, will never deformation fracture. When you buy, you can light a cigarette or use a lighter to burn for a while, there is no trace of good-quality quartz stone. (But it should be noted that many people say quartz stone burning is not bad, this statement is not accurate)

5-Rub the Quartz Stone Surface

Good quartz stone surface after more than a dozen process treatment, the structure is very tight, and the product's internal density, and water absorption rate is very low; so you can pour ─ point soy sauce on the material or other colorful liquid can also be, half an hour after wiping away, if there is no trace left, indicating that it is a high-quality quartz stone.

6-Vinegar Test

High-quality quartz stone countertops will generally add 90% premium all-natural quartz powder, with a tablespoon of white vinegar poured on the artificial stone and quartz stone countertops, after 30 seconds, if many tiny bubbles are produced it means it is fake quartz stone because the calcium carbonate in fake quartz stone will react chemically with white vinegar and produce bubbles. (Note: must be white vinegar, aged vinegar food vinegar is invalid)

In words: 4 tips will be enough for testing the quality of engineered quartz

1-Watching through Observation the surface of quartz 

2-Scratch the quartz surface with a knife

3-Burn the Quartz

4 Acid Test