Zenith Quartz counter, seams - help please!
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Comments (13)$1000 is a lot of money (stating the obvious here). I don't have quartz--we got carrara. We have a few seams. They are noticeable. I don't mind because I kind of prefer the look of aged, messy, "patina-ed" stone. I don't think, however, that is the look you are going for with your quartz. I would ask lots of questions of the fabricator about how the seaam/epoxy color will fare over time. Epoxy is supposed to be stainproof but I do see some discoloration (graying) where whitish epoxy was used and our install is 1 month old. Of course, it scrubs up real well, but I am a slob in the kitchen. Also, when they instal...hover. The installer can do a messy, slight seam or a messy thick seam. They mix the epoxy color on site and they can match it really really well if you hover and insist. I had a chip on the edge of my counter and the first epoxy job they did to patch it was depressing. I asked them to dig out the epoxy and re-mix the color. The difference was night and day. Now the patch job is impossible to locate, where before it was painfully obvious. Tell your fabricator that you are persnickety about how the seam will look and see how they react. Good luck!...See MoreNeed help with Quartz Countertop for my island: I have to put a seam!
Comments (30)Blue222q: thank you for the compliment on the kitchen! I made a mistake in my measurements because we went through a few modifications on the island and I wasn't reading the most recent modifications when I posted the measurements. The wood counters are 24 1/2 inches each, and the quartz is 78 1/2 inches, giving a total of 127 inches. I love the wood counters. I have a lot of counter space around the perimeter of my kitchen (which is the same quartz as the island) and it really needed something to break up all the white marble looking quartz. Plus I have grayish marble floor tiles. The wood adds warmth to it and I really like the 2 surfaces. I have only had it for a few weeks now but I absolutely am grateful my kitchen designer thought of the wood. It is raised a little above the quartz which I suggest as well. So the wood is not flush with the quartz, intentionally. I could have gone with a thicker wood but for every inch you add on a wood counter, the cost really goes up and I didn't think I really needed a thicker piece of wood. The quartz was put down first in the middle of the island and then the wood on the ends. So the wood is not sitting on top of the quartz. The guys that put in the quartz, ran white caulk(I think that is what it is) on the seam where the wood meets up with the quartz. You don't notice it at all. I'm assuming the wood counter is glued onto the cabinets in the island but I wasn't around when the wood was installed. The book match is good and I'm assuming the more pattern your quartz has, the more you can hide the seam. I don't have a lot of pattern and you do see a very slight line that runs horizontal in the middle of the quartz. You really don't notice it. I'll have to take more photos for you to see it....See MoreQuartz counter corner seam repair, help please!
Comments (4)QSCCREL I know you struggle with context, so I'll try to help you out. You notice i didn't say "That's positively a contaminated miter." No, based on an internet picture, I speculated that it may be a contaminated miter and offered a viable solution if it were. Your burn supposition is a good guess too....See MorePlease help!!! Is quartz seam acceptable?
Comments (21)Diagonal seams are not acceptable. They are the weakest, require much more support, and have the most chance of a color and pattern mismatch because they are the largest possible joinery seam. They have the most chance of shifting as cabinets settle and move, giving you a large area of lippage vs a small one. They also waste the most material, which costs you more with the extra slabs needed, and in general, just look ugly with any stone with directionality. That diagonal is not a good look. At all. . A french miter is always the preferred seam for a corner. Quartz is not natural stone. It has zero predictability in color pattern production. You need to have that expectation on the front end. You will not get a pattern match like bookmatched natural stone. Ever. It's not printed from a pattern like tile. The individual solids colors are mixing as swirl paintings that are different every single time. No manufacturer or fabricator anywhere warrants a seam to be a perfect match, because the product has no predictability. Each slab is individually patterned and colored and is unique, and can not ever be a perfect match. That is a as well done a seam as any Quartz manufacturer would promise. It an acceptable match. It does not fall outside any industry tolerances....See MoreSina Sadeddin Architectural Design
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