Has anyone installed Silver Cloud granite countertops? We are doing an upgrade in our 15-year old kitchen (keeping the hickory cabinets, keeping the tile floor) and replacing appliances and countertops. We fell in love with a granite/gneiss called Silver Mist that is helpfully not being quarried any more. We have about switched allegiance to honed Jet Mist (we want to stay in the American/Canadian gray/black with movement category) but are having trouble dismissing Silver Cloud, which is quarried in Georgia but distributed in Canada. We have gotten some pictures of slabs but after thoroughly web searching I haven't read any feedback or seen any good pictures of Silver Cloud installed. We can get slabs from Quebec but before seriously pursuing this option I'd love to hear about other installations. Thanks to all on this forum, by the way -- I'm a recent joiner and the collective wisdom is a great resource.

I haven't seen either of these in person. I am giving the guy at the stone place names of stones that I'm interested in. It's a very weird process. None of their slabs are priced, so I can't tell the $/sq ft to compare stone A to stone B. And quite frankly the inventory that they had onsite was not so great. So, I'm looking at different suppliers to get ideas of some stones for him to price for me. I guess this time around what is easier is I know I like a lighter stone, with movement, tend to lean towards the grays, taupes, whites rather than the golden or dark colors. So at least I can look at photos to get an idea, and this allows me to give him names of stones to price out for my builder. I think I'm driving them crazy. They probably have no idea where a regular human being is pulling these photos from...geez, another person to pull into the 21st century. And I thought it was just the KD that I was dragging in. fks3, these pictures are from PMI International, a stone importer. The fabricator for my current kitchen pulls inventory from them. I'm hoping my future fabricator can develop a relationship with them. Or at least find me slabs to look at. Here is a link that might be useful: PMI

Pictures?

You can probably poultice the contaminated stone to match the stone protected by the mat. You've got a porous stone. On second thought, it's probably UV light degradation of the resin on the exposed stone. Leave the mat off for several months and see if the light area catches up.