An experienced distributor and fabricator of natural stone materials will know how to work with seams to ensure not.
Marble countertops with seams.
For marble kitchen countertops however nussbaum generally recommends sticking with white marble.
For most natural stone kitchen countertops seams places where two individual stones are joined together are often unavoidable.
It may be a luxurious white marble like calacatta borghini or a colorful granite like van gogh.
Most are less than 10 feet wide.
Then the production manager says that your countertop is going to need a seam.
Your feelings are understandable.
You couldn t be happier.
Marble and granite slabs are generally not wider than 10 or 11 feet.
Seams in your granite tops are inevitable to get continuous runs of countertop out of material that is limited in length.
There s going to be a seam in my new beautiful gleaming countertop.
If you ve seen a granite or quartz countertop with an unsightly sloppy seam like the one below odds are it was made by a person cutting slabs with a wet saw out of their garage something no reputable stone countertop fabricator does.
Don t fret and here s why.
That sometimes seems strange to customers when they see the huge piece of stone their countertop will be made from.
Granite countertop seams are an issue of concern for many buyers of granite counters.
Because acid etching leaves a whitish mark it is much more noticeable on colored marble than on.