What is the reason for the cracking of artificial stone countertops

Once the artificial stone countertop is improperly maintained, it may cause its cracking phenomenon. However, in addition to maintenance, buying high-quality artificial stone is also a way to prevent artificial stone from cracking.

How to buy artificial stone

1. Observe whether the style, color, flatness, and tone are uniform and whether it contains Impurities, the back of the stone should be free of tiny holes. If the stone has small holes, the water resistance is poor.

2. Texture, hand touch on top of good quality stone is delicate and smooth, there is no astringent feeling, if there is an uncomfortable feeling, it means that there is a problem with the quality of the stone.

3. Good-quality or pure stone has no peculiar smell, so we must distinguish it through our sense of smell.

4. Wear resistance or scratch resistance Two stones of the same batch or the same quality are not easy to break when they hit each other. Scratch the surface of the stone with a coin, the stone of good quality will not be scratched.

5. Two stones of the same batch or the same quality are not easy to break when they hit each other.

Reasons for cracking of artificial stone countertops

Cracking caused by uneven force: If the countertops are installed without reinforcement pads, And the position of cutting vegetables is exactly on the part where there is no liner. Therefore, this is more like cutting vegetables hanging in the air. If the hardness of the artificial stone countertop is not high enough, cracks will form in the purely stressed parts after a long time. Therefore, it is necessary to protect the stressed area of u200bu200bthe countertop before restoration.

Cracking caused by backing board problem: The cracking of the countertop may also be caused by the problem of the backing strip and backing board under the countertop, such as poor backing board material, water seepage or leakage in the sink, and the backing board will definitely encounter this situation It will swell, causing the countertop to crack; in addition, there are cases where the entire board is not cushioned under the countertop, or the cushion strips are unevenly cushioned and cause cracking. In this case, it is necessary to reinforce the backing plate and the cabinet body before repairing the countertop.

Cracking caused by improper hole opening: Whether it is the hole of the sink or the stove, its circumference should be curved. After the hole is opened, a backing plate should be added around the hole to increase the bearing capacity. Otherwise, it is easy to cause the countertop to crack.

How to distinguish between artificial stone and quartz stone

It is difficult to distinguish between artificial stone and quartz stone, and merchants usually introduce which is artificial stone , Which is quartz stone. But in order to avoid being fooled by some unscrupulous merchants, we still have to rely on our own 'hot eyes.'

Quartz stone is harder than artificial stone, so artificial stone countertops are also easy to scratch marks. Although quartz stone is also a kind of artificial stone, it has 92% quartz crystal, which is high-purity silicon dioxide, so it has stronger hardness, more resistance to abrasion, scratch, and collision. Consumers can take the key they carry with them and scratch the back of the sample stone. The artificial stone can be traced, but the quartz stone cannot be traced.

In addition, when the two quartz stones are beaten, they will have a burning smell, so you can be sure when you buy Be careful.