The Granite House Blog

Quartz surfaces are a manmade alternative to granite. Produced using crushed quartz, which is the second most abundant mineral within the Earths crust, the manufacturers then add dyes, resins and other ‘ingredients’ to achieve their individual colour ranges. This results in an incredibly strong, non porous material, ideal for use in kitchens and bathrooms.

The Granite House is poised to have one of its busiest Februarys’ to date. The cold weather has not stopped our customers visiting the workshop and with a record number of installations booked in, there is plenty of work to keep the boys warm. We have also had our web team working hard on our testimonials page, so you can see even more examples of the projects that we have completed over the last year.

The Guild of Master Craftsmen is the UKs leading trade association, consisting of high quality, reliable tradesmen and women and companies. Applicants to The Guild have to undergo a rigorous inspection process, including confidential references from customers, before they can be accepted as members.

The Granite House is pleased to announce that we have recently been accepted as a member of The Guild of Master Craftsmen.

One of the advantages of choosing stone worktops is that you are spoilt for choice in terms of colour and material. Quartz surfaces allow you to keep things soft and neutral, like CaesarStone Latte, or be daring and bright with a Cimstone Recife. If granite is your preferance, then Lemon Spice offers you striking patterns while Black Antico gives you simplicity with texture.

After a nice long Christmas break, everyone here at The Granite House is back, refreshed and ready for another busy year ahead.

Straight back in at the deep end, Wayne and Andy have been out onsite while the team in the office have been busy sending out estimates and samples. It has been a productive first week and a good start to 2012.

Its been a busy year for The Granite House, so we are all looking forward to the Christmas break.

We will be closed from Friday 23rd December until Friday 6th January inclusive, re opening our doors on Monday 9th January.

We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our customers, past, present and future a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Here at The Granite House we pride ourselves on providing a completely bespoke fabrication service. Along with a huge range of colours and materials we also offer a wide variety of features that you can choose from to make sure you get the worktops of your dreams. We recently did an installation where our customer wanted a slightly more unusual edge detail, they decided to go for an Ogee and you can see how it looked below.

The Silestone Sports Series is one of the newest collections to the Silestone range of modern, quartz surfaces and this colour, White Platinum, is a beautiful combination of white with metallic silver highlights. This kitchen includes upstands; polished bowl; drainer grooves; window sill and a peninsula with curved corners.

With just 3 working weeks left till Christmas, The Granite House is a hive of activity. We only have a couple of appointments left for installations, so if you like the idea of having beautiful granite or quartz worktops in time for the big day, then give us a call.

Don’t forget we also offer a supply only service, so if you only need a vanity top or maybe a fire hearth, this is a good way to update your decor and keep the costs down at the same time.

Forest Black is a stunning granite, swirls of black and gold are interspersed with ‘blobs’ of white crystal giving it real movement and epitomising the beauty of natural stone.

With stone like this, which is very variable across the slabs, we work very closely with our customers to ensure that they have exactly what they want. For example with this install they did not want any large crystal ‘blobs’ on the island piece, so we discussed what parts of the stone would be used where and achieved exactly the look they wanted.