Quartz Countertops in Kenya: Engineered Stone, Fitted Properly
from KES 3,500 / sq ft
What quartz actually is
Engineered stone: roughly 90% ground natural quartz bound with polymer resin and pigment. It is not a slab of quarried rock, and that is the point, the resin makes it non-porous.
The practical differences from granite
No sealing, ever. Non-porous means it does not absorb oil, wine or hard water. In a Kenyan kitchen that removes the single most common cause of a stained worktop.
Consistency. What you see on the sample is what arrives. Natural granite varies slab to slab, sometimes considerably, which is why we insist clients see the actual slab. With quartz you do not need to.
Colour range. Whites, greys and solid colours that simply do not exist in natural stone, including the plain white many people want and cannot get in granite.
Where granite still wins
Heat. The resin in quartz softens and can scorch. A pan straight off the hob onto quartz will mark it permanently; on granite it usually will not. If your household routinely puts hot pans down without a trivet, we will say granite.
Direct sun. Prolonged UV can discolour some quartz. On a Nairobi kitchen with a large west-facing window, or an outdoor kitchen, quartz is the wrong choice and we will not fit it there.
Price. Quartz runs KES 3,500–7,000 per square foot against granite’s 2,500–6,000. Branded lines (Caesarstone, Silestone, Cambria) sit at KES 31,900–48,720 per square metre, which is about 2,960–4,530 per square foot.
Fabrication is the same discipline
Templated after units are level, seams placed deliberately, cutouts made in the workshop rather than on site. Quartz is less forgiving than granite of a cutout made badly: it will crack from the corner of a hob opening if the radius is wrong.
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