Granite worktops
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We have a kitchen that has granite worktops, but the colour isn't to our taste particularly. Is there such a thing as a paint or other colouring agent that can be used to darken them (preferably from mottled grey to blackish)?
Thanks in advance to anyone who knows something!
>> Edited by sjc on Sunday 22 January 19:31
Thanks in advance to anyone who knows something!
>> Edited by sjc on Sunday 22 January 19:31
Try dropping Chelsea Tractor a line 
>> Edited by FrenchTVR on Sunday 22 January 19:12
>> Edited by FrenchTVR on Sunday 22 January 19:21
>> Edited by FrenchTVR on Sunday 22 January 19:12
>> Edited by FrenchTVR on Sunday 22 January 19:21
some friends of ours have just spent an absolute fortune having their kitchen redone........black marble worktops and everything.
We were complimenting them on how good the kitchen looked, and my Mrs was just saying how much she would like black granite worktops. "Dont do it" was the comment made to us. Although they looked nice, they were impossible to keep looking clean and it was the only thing that they didnt like about the kitchen. Even though it was the real reason they had the kitchen remodelled in the first place.
They wouldn't ever have black granite tops again.
I must say I heaved a big sigh of relief as I dont think you can get granite from my local Wickes, and if I could my roof rack couldnt take the weight. .......
Cheers,
Tony
We were complimenting them on how good the kitchen looked, and my Mrs was just saying how much she would like black granite worktops. "Dont do it" was the comment made to us. Although they looked nice, they were impossible to keep looking clean and it was the only thing that they didnt like about the kitchen. Even though it was the real reason they had the kitchen remodelled in the first place.
They wouldn't ever have black granite tops again.
I must say I heaved a big sigh of relief as I dont think you can get granite from my local Wickes, and if I could my roof rack couldnt take the weight. .......
Cheers,
Tony
Tony427 said:
they were impossible to keep looking clean
must be something wrong with her. i have black granite worktops and they're easy to keep clean. hot sponge and soap to clean and a damp cloth to wipe off the soap and hey presto.
clearly an inept housewife. i suggest her husband leaves her immediately.
Rob_T said:
they were impossible to keep looking clean
must be something wrong with her. i have black granite worktops and they're easy to keep clean. hot sponge and soap to clean and a damp cloth to wipe off the soap and hey presto.
clearly an inept housewife. i suggest her husband leaves her immediately.
Agree with that, I find it easy to clean ours too.
Trumpet600 said:
Granite always looks classy, until you spill alcohol on it. Even with the sealers that manufacturers recommend, unless you wipe your spills of immediately, glass rings or spils will show. Red wine being the worst.....even on black granite
Can't say thats happened ours. After 10 years of family abuse and parties to beat the band (you know the ones, too many people to bother with spills most of the time), and they are still perfect. Not a mark.
Just had a new kitchen with star galaxy ganite, not the easy thing to keep clean but not that hard, I clean it with isoproply alcohol. (edit - thats what I use, if the professionals recommend not using it then I'd probably listen to them, but it works for me!)
>> Edited by medicineman on Sunday 22 January 22:45
>> Edited by medicineman on Sunday 22 January 22:45
sjc said:
I'm not worried about the maintenaince as we already have granite, it's just the colour we don't like.
I don't think it would be possible. If you painted it, you wouldn't be able to use it for hot pots or whatever. Plus it would scratch easily? I would have thought that the seal would be too good to accept a stain without a sand and re-seal or something.
in answer to the original question, granite is porus to a degree (especially in not maintained - sealed every six months or so) but I doubt it would take a colour or stain.
If you really dislike it that much I would have thought your only option would be to change it.
What you have will still be of some value however - ring a few reclamation yards, they may well be interested.
If you really dislike it that much I would have thought your only option would be to change it.
What you have will still be of some value however - ring a few reclamation yards, they may well be interested.
Rob_T said:
they were impossible to keep looking clean
must be something wrong with her. i have black granite worktops and they're easy to keep clean. hot sponge and soap to clean and a damp cloth to wipe off the soap and hey presto.
clearly an inept housewife. i suggest her husband leaves her immediately.
Our kitchen supplier suggesting an E-cloth for cleaning granite. www.e-cloth.com It only needs a light spray of fresh water on the granite surface and it will clean and polish the granite to a shine with minimum effort. Keeps it looking great.
As for staining a hard polished stone surface.? Never heard of it being done.
Replacement granite worktops will run in to many thousands even for a small kithcen!
rich1231 said:
Many thousands.... only if you are Mr Gullible from Have Me Over road, in lower take the pee
Perhaps I should have said 'GOOD QUALITY granite COULD run into many thousands in an AVERAGE sized kitchen'
Ours was supplied at cost by a mate who runs his own firm. Still came to a few thousand pounds. However its not the amount of area that is the expensive bit , its the number of cuts required.
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