Advisor on choice of material and execution of kitchen worktop - Stone products Mosaictech

The kitchen top is basis of every kitchen. The top suffers from the highest wear thanks to permanent working load.

From this reason, it is important to choose a good material. The kitchen top must withhold scratches, heat load and spilling with liquids usual in kitchen. Beside this, the top is an esthetical „crown“ of the kitchen.

Therefore, it is very important to choose correct colour, structure and surface of the top.
The kitchen top should also require an easy maintenance only.

When to select the worktop from laminate?

• If I have very limited budget for the kitchen, I do not require longer service life of the top
  

• If I plan to change the top in the future
  

• if I could protect the top always from the contact with hot and sharp objects
  

• if the top is more manipulation top than working top  
  

• if I take care anxiously about it after each pouring the liquids etc.
  

(The stone fabricator MosaicTech does not supply the tops from laminate, they are standard part of the kitchen bought by the producer/supplier of the furniture)

When to select the worktop from granite?

• If I do not have so much limited budget for the kitchen
  

• If I insist on quite authentic natural product
  

• If I want a top with high heat resistance (up to 250°C)
  

• If I want a top with high resistance to mechanical wear
  

• If I accept the necessity to impregnate the top against penetration of liquids after a certain time (1x for 3-10 years)
  

• If I accept also visible joints of partial sheets with length over 2.5 m
  

3 cm-thickness of the top is recommended

When to select the worktop from engineered stone?

• If I do not have limited budget for the kitchen
  

• If I insist on modern material consisting of 93% min. natural component (mainly quartz), with almost zero requirements on maintenance, where I can cut with a knife, knock Wiener Schnitzel etc.
  

• If I want the top which I could protect from very high temperature
  

• Against the granite, the colours and patterns of engineered stone follow the prevailing fashion
  

• It is a very trendy material
  

• I accept also visible joints of partial sheets with length over 3m
  

2 cm-thickness of the top is recommended, 3cm just for the case of expected heavy heat load of the top

When to select the worktop from solid surface?

• If I do not have limited budget for the kitchen
  

• If I do not mind the slightly plastic look (the product contains about 30% resin)
  

• If I require no visible joints on the top
  

• If I require to have the top and kitchen sink from the same material and colour and having the absolutely rounded form
  

• I accept that the material gets easily scratched and does not resist higher temperature but always it can be simply get cleaned back
  

• It is a highly trendy material
  

When to select the worktop from large-format ceramics?

• If I do not have limited budget for the kitchen
  

• If it is planned to cook intensively on the top
  

• If the top gets in contact with very hot and sharp objects
  

• If I insist on minimum maintenance and unlimited service life
  

• If I do not mind the visible joints on sheets with length over 3.2m