Practical guides to countertop materials, costs, fabrication and care. Find the questions to ask before you choose, and the details to look after once your surface is installed.
The quartz industry is reformulating its products to remove crystalline silica because of a serious lung-disease risk to the workers who cut and polish slabs — not because installed countertops…
Read articleIf new countertops are part of your 2027 kitchen renovation, start planning three to six months before the date you want the kitchen finished — and choose your fabricator well before you need the…
Read articleHeading into 2027, the strongest countertop signals all point the same direction: warm, earthy colours instead of stark white and cool grey, tactile matte and textured finishes instead of high…
Read articleThe important countertop technology change heading into 2027 is not a gadget — it is chemistry: the industry-wide reformulation of engineered quartz into low-silica and silica-free products,…
Read articleNobody can honestly tell you what countertops will cost in 2027 — and we won’t pretend to. What we can do is explain the forces that will move prices: the CAD/USD exchange rate, freight and…
Read articleDespite the near-identical names, quartzite and quartz are completely different products. Quartzite is 100% natural stone quarried from the earth; quartz is engineered — ground stone bound with…
Read articleQuartzite and marble can look almost identical — both are natural stone with soft, flowing veins — but they behave very differently. Quartzite is much harder and acid-resistant ; true quartzite…
Read articleQuartzite and granite are both 100% natural stone, and both are excellent, hard-wearing countertops. Quartzite is generally harder (Mohs 7–8 vs granite’s 6–7), tends to deliver a brighter,…
Read articleQuartzite is a hard, natural stone that delivers a marble-like look with far more durability — excellent heat and scratch resistance, and (in true quartzite) no etching from kitchen acids. The…
Read articleQuartz is the go-to for indoor kitchens — it’s non-porous, comes in hundreds of consistent colours, and is easy to live with. But quartz is not UV-stable and is not warrantied for outdoor use, so…
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