Used Granite

I had a granite worktop installed last September but the surface has been getting worse and worse and looks smudged and horrid as if liquids are being absorbed. Just was surfing the forums and was recommended to get the granite surface sealed. So I've been doing my own research and found some sealers here

Granite should not absorb anything.

Try first of all degreasing with caustic or oven cleaner and then use a limescale remover to remove any of that

In extremis polish with fine wet and dry paper

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Indeed. However, many "granite" worktops are not made of granite but some other rock which often is absorbent.

John

Then it isnt granite is it?

Is it just an advert for that site mentioned ?.

Of course.

Unfortunately, 'granite' has become a generic term for any stone worktop used by the kitchen and bathroom design business regardless of petrological accuracy.

That doesn't stop the people who sell such worktops calling it granite, nor does it stop people who own them thinking it is granite and then complaining about it getting stained.

John

Granite is hard wearing but does have small pores in it so It will never be uniform as its natural stone after all. Brian

I don't agree, I have a granite table lamp and one can clearly see , well other can, a stain where my late grandmother spilled something on it over 40 years ago! Brian

Well what do I know of grannies and granite... Quite a lot. Brian

It is granite, but all granite is not the same quality. Its probably a bit like our local train station forecourt finished in York stone. All the way from China, apparently. It is standard paving faced with York stone in fact, not quite the same thing. Brian

Yeah, we believe her Brian.

Where did she bury the body :-)

Andrew

Granite worktops I could believe. There are some damn great big lumps of granite about. But one company tried to sell us a quartz worktop... which I don't believe.

(we went with acrylic, with mica flakes to make it look pretty. Trouble is you can't see crumbs on it.)

Andy

quartz is great, I've got a bathroom kitted out in quartz tiles

Good practical work top

Very nice. But "granite", not granite. Granites are light coloured - grey or pink, even red. But not black. Probably basalt or gabbro.

Basalt. Definitely not gabbro.

To a geologist. Not to a kitchen supplier. To them its 'granite'

Its tough as old boots. Recommended

Not cheap tho

Really?