Monday, July 20, 2015

The Granite Countertops Alabama Residents Want Are Naturally Beautiful

By Jana Serrano


There are many rooms, such as bathrooms, kitchens and assembly areas that need a clean, sanitary counter top. One of the best looking surfaces is still a granite counter top. They are installed all over the world and many of them are right here, in the United States. If you are looking for one to improve the look of your home, contact those companies who provide the granite countertops Alabama homeowners depend on.

The source of this material is in the ground, in stone outcroppings in many parts of the world. The process for turning these 40,000 pounds, or larger, chunks of stone into a small enough piece for your bathroom or kitchen is a long one. It involves Geologists, explosive technicians, heavy equipment operators and all of their gear. That is just to get it out of the ground.

It then takes heavy hauling trucks, more equipment to cut it in various stages, and a craftsman to work it into the right piece for your home. All of this takes weeks if not months and, in many places around the world, years to get to this point. The selection of the right colors, striations and grain takes up a good portion of this time.

After all of the cutting is complete, at the quarry site, it is hauled to the shipyard for shipping to the United States, England and many others. When it arrives it is displayed in stone shops for your selection. These craftsmen can help you in finding the best piece for any application.

All of the stone pieces that get to the craftsman shops are displayed for your final approval. You will find a great many sizes. A lot of those variables will be the ones you use to determine the best piece for your counter. One of those variables will be the overall color. It can be anything from white through the greens, browns and into the black. There also might be some color running through the pieces as an accent. This might be gold or silver or some variation. This pattern could be straight lines, curly ones or swirling bursts of colors that can be unexpected. Grain is something that must be considered as it might be coarse and open or fine and tight. Both of these factors will need to be looked at as they can enhance the room in which it is installed.

These granite tops are beautiful and can be cleaned easily. They are fragile, as well, and can be marred by many chemicals. They can be chipped and broken because of the relative thickness to its weight. They must be installed on a substructure that can hold that weight and installed in such a way as to protect the corners.

One of the reasons this material is so good for this industrial use is because of the very fine grain that can be selected. These pieces are valuable to many companies and part of it is that they are so easy to clean. This cleanliness also helps in the critical measurements they use this surface for.

In your kitchen or bathroom, these counter tops will add beauty, enhance the sanitation of the room and inspire admiration from visitors. They are a good, solid surface for food preparation and excellent as a resting place for cosmetics and medications. They are also perfect to display your hand picked flowers in a nice vase.




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