Hello, I was interested and wondering if there are any unique and difficult designs out there...i am taking on some lines of Quartz to offer and I was wondering if anyone does Inlays, different color borders, or any other type of designs other than the square slab with a sink in it..has anyone tried drainboard grooves?

please submit pics, I wanna try different applications with it...I guess im kinda asking if there is a Sterling Surfaces type facility for Quartz fabrication?

Gene,

Our quartz and granite fabricator offers sloped and grooved drainboards, but they can cost as much as $1100.00.

Paul

Paul,

Thanx... thats what i wanted to know cause i havent seen too many designs in Quartz...the price might limit designs I usually see just the basic slab and then running a piece down the side of the cabinet

Most of the unique design possibilities comes from adding a backsplash.

Actually a lot can be done with Quartz. This is what you would expect to be done with SS.

Here's a couple of display pieces in Silestone that we cooked up a couple weeks ago for a show.

These are made from 3 CM Silestone and the joints are almost invisible. The shower is really tough to hide the joints as there are 4 corners that have to be perfectly matched and square.

We didn't make them of course!  The company that we have partnered with "Granit Design" in Stanstead Quebec produced them for a show. We went to visit them last Friday and had a tour of the plant and got to see these pieces in their warehouse. They are a great group of people and showed us a wonderful time.

Paul

Paul,

That's a pretty awesome design. How did they curve those ends? In Solid Surface no problem, but with quartz. See if they'll let you in on that secret.

Are the corners one piece or are they seamed?

They are seamed at the corners. The corners are fabbed and then seamed to the straight sides and top. The seams are so good that someone not familiar with quartz probably would not notice them at a casual glance. Truely exemplary work! The best seams I have ever seen on a stone product.

Paul

I have been told and seen photos of Quartz being thermoformed by using hot watter, others may have seen this also at the last ISSFA show. It was really cool looking stuff !

Quartz is still young and there is much to learn about it, its good to see some pushing the envelope with fabercation and installs.

Thats what I was lookin for...oh yeah!  thanx Paul..thats great, I know that the the only one who would really appreciate that is someone who worked with quartz...

the typical customer wouldnt even know all the work that it took to do that, they would problay just ask "How Much"?

dats when ya get em in da headlock and point to the seams and polishing blisters on your hands, let alone the carpal hands from polishing and grinding that curve...I knew sooner or later quartz would be more than just a slab with a sink in it

That is some cool looking work, but white quartz gives me the hee-bee-jeeb-ees.

That stuff will pick up a metal mar if you stare at it really really hard.