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Nowadays, more and more families choose quartz stone as a countertop for cabinets.
However, the quality of quartz stone on the market is uneven, and there are many fakes, so that consumers do not know how to identify them. In this issue, if your home is about to be renovated or has already begun to renovate, and you also pay special attention to quartz stone, then you should read it carefully, because the content is of great reference value, allowing you to understand how to distinguish whether the quartz stone on the countertop is high quality.
About Quartz Stone
For quartz stone, it has the advantages of high hardness, strong anti-fouling ability and sufficient toughness. After being used on the cabinet countertop, it is guaranteed that there will be no problem even if the ribs are chopped on it, and at the same time, it can effectively prevent oil pollution. Therefore, once it is launched, it is deeply loved by consumers.
At present, the quartz stone countertops used on the market can be divided into three colors: single color, double color, and zircon. Among these three colors, the price of single color is a little lower, and the price of solid color fine particles is higher.
For the thickness of quartz stone, there are currently 10, 1.2, 15, 18, 20 mm.... The thickness of inferior quartz is only 1-1.3 cm; while the thickness of good quartz is 1.5-2.0 cm.
From the perspective of quartz stone production technology, there are currently two types: die-casting production and casting production.
Die-casting production is that the particles on both sides are evenly distributed, the specific gravity is large, and it is not easy to seep oil.
Casting production is uneven distribution of particles on both sides, and the specific gravity is smaller.
It can be said that as the processing technology of quartz stone becomes more and more mature, it is now entering the era of numerical control. It can achieve high processing precision and no dust pollution. In this regard, the most representative is that the rear water stop can be made into an integrated effect of an inner arc. But this can only be done for large businesses, and for small workshops, it can only be done with straight edge effects.
If it is good or bad to distinguish the quartz stone used for cabinet countertops?
Because the advantages of quartz stone are so obvious, so popular with merchants, and at the same time as consumers, they like to bargain, so merchants have made imitation quartz stone, which is simply fake quartz stone, but it can't be seen from the surface, only It can only be known through the use of professional equipment and time. For this reason, many consumers need to know how to distinguish whether the quartz stone they buy is good or not when they buy it.
If you want to know whether the quartz stone you choose is good or not when you buy it, there are actually many methods, which are also very simple, and can be directly effective. The specific method is as follows:
1. Anti-scratch test:
When selecting quartz stone, you can directly scrape the surface with a knife. If there is no trace, it proves that it is an authentic quartz stone.
Because for quartz stone, its own hardness is very high, usually reaching level 7 or above, so it is not easy to be damaged, even if a knife is scratched a few times, there will be no obvious traces.
2. Anti-fouling test
When the quartz stone is produced, it is polished for many times to ensure that the surface is smooth and flat, without obvious cracks, and oil stains and condiments are not easy to penetrate.
It can be said that the countertop quartz stone is dirty, and the stain can be wiped away by directly rinsing with a rag or clean water. This is the real quartz stone.
At this time, according to this characteristic, pour some soy sauce directly on it when selecting, and see if it is wiped clean with a cloth to see if there is any infiltration. As long as it is clean and easy to scrub, it is good; otherwise, it is not good.
3. Fire test
Quartz stone has good stability, does not react with oil, and is resistant to high temperature. It is especially suitable for kitchen countertops.
When selecting, you can also use this feature to identify. You can directly use a lighter to burn it on the table for a while to see if there are imprints. The authentic ones have no traces; otherwise, if there are imprints, it means that it is not good.
4. Test with acid
Quartz stone is very grainy, we should pay attention to the sparseness of the grains on its surface.
Use oxalic acid to drip on it and see if there are bubbles. This method is the most direct and effective.
Good quartz stone is dripped with oxalic acid, it will not bubble
On the contrary, the inferior quartz stone will bubble when dripped with oxalic acid.
For the selection of quartz stone countertops, there is one more thing to pay attention to, that is, when doing so-called seamless splicing, don't believe it!
This is because of the high hardness of quartz stone, it is inevitable that there will be traces after cutting. No matter how you handle it, there will be slight gaps on the table, which cannot be changed at present.
If the merchant says it can be done, then basically it is to polish the surface of the quartz stone to make it appear matte and matte, and then do not protect it with a polishing layer, so that it looks like a seamless connection. In fact, as long as the polishing process is performed, The gap appears. Unpolished countertops can easily seep into oil and condiments, so pay special attention.
About how to deal with quartz oil pollution
At least half of the quartz stones currently on the market are not real, because this has an advantage in price, allowing consumers to bargain when choosing.
Moreover, when consumers choose countertops, they basically only look at the hardness and color, and basically ignore other things. This also gives merchants a chance to make fakes. Only when they find that the countertops are bleeding after use, will they know that they are buying fakes. Quartz stone.
In the face of this popular phenomenon, it is a matter of great concern to deal with the problem of color bleeding on quartz stone countertops.
Because it is useless to use detergent at this time;
Bleach is useless;
Heaven is useless;
It is useless to polish with sandpaper above 2000 meshes;
Moreover, using these to scrub the bleeding position of the countertop, the more you wipe, the less effective it is, and it is easy to stain the countertop. Later, my parents told me to use a special cleaner for quartz stone to scrub. Unexpectedly, a magical thing happened.
The quartz stone cleaning agent is harmless and non-corrosive, and can completely replace the existing pickling process. It only takes 2-5 hours at normal temperature to clean the dyeing problem of the quartz stone surface.
All kinds of stone in the home, including wall tiles, floor tiles, quartz stone consoles, and marble bay window countertops, etc., can be used to solve the problem of color bleeding.
However, please be rational. Bleeding cleaners are not a panacea. They mainly deal with dyeing problems. You must determine the dyeing problem before starting. If it is a dyeing problem, using a bleeder cleaner is definitely not effective.
Finally, let’s talk about the decoration and summarize it for you:
Although there are many ways to distinguish, for consumers, they basically don’t use it because they only care about price. For cities like county-level cities, there are too many inferior quartz stones, and it is too difficult to find high-quality quartz stones. This is also a reality that cannot be changed at present.