Maintenance Tips to Prevent Quartz Countertops from Cracking
Quartz stone is a favored material in recent years, due to its density, hardness, quartz stone has a very good scratch resistance. It is not easy to scratch penetration, stain resistance, corrosion resistance, high temperature resistance, green, can be in direct contact with food.
However, from the point of view of physics, Quartz Stone still has a slight thermal expansion and contraction, there is a certain contraction stress, impact toughness, elongation at break and other mechanical properties, when the material can not withstand thermal expansion and contraction brought about by internal stresses and severe external impacts will be cracked. Below we take the quartz stone countertop as a case to explain some of the conditions and explanations of quartz stone cracking.
Quartz Countertop Cracking Classification & Causes
1. Countertop center part cracking: high temperature, impact by external forces, not flat cabinets or pads, internal injuries to the plate and so on;
2. Corner cracking: The countertop is too tight against the wall without leaving a seam, an uneven height between the two cabinets, uneven shrinkage of the countertop due to external impacts or temperature changes;
3. Cracking around the basin on the countertop: Not leaving a gap between the basin and the basin holes, unpolished basin holes, uneven shrinkage of the countertop due to external impacts or temperature changes;
4. Cracking around the stove hole: not leaving a gap between the gas stove and the stove hole, not polishing the stove hole, uneven shrinkage of the countertop due to external impacts or temperature changes;
5. Back water bar cracking: Cabinets are not level or pads are not flat
6. Countertops splicing joints cracking: installers do not align the seams when splicing, not evenly coated with glue, or add too much curing agent or accelerator in the glue, making the splices more brittle, and then easy to suffer from minor impacts in the process of use and then cracking
Preventing Quartz Stone Cracking, Care Should be Taken:
1. In order to ensure the installation quality of the countertop, before installation, you need to pay attention to the following points:
2. In the design of plane splicing, the physical properties of quartz stone should be taken into account to avoid the consequences of joint cracking due to thermal expansion and contraction or stress concentration. When selecting the splicing position, the force of the plate must be fully considered. Avoid jointing in the corner or furnace mouth position.
3. In the design of countertop corners, should give full consideration to the stress concentration, resulting in countertop corner cracking, so in the processing should be done at all corners to maintain a radius of 25mm or more rounded corners.
4. Design hole position, the hole should be greater than or equal to 80mm from the edge of the countertop, to prevent cracking of the hole position; The corner of the hole should be maintained at a radius of 25mm or more rounded corners
5. When installing the countertop, there should be a 2-4mm expansion gap between the countertop and the wall to effectively ensure that the quartz countertop does not crack due to thermal expansion and cold contraction. The maximum distance between the quartz countertop and the support frame or support plate should not exceed 600 mm to reduce the deformation or even fracture of the countertop;
6. In the daily use process, it is also necessary to avoid cracking due to external factors, such as: do not hit the quartz stone table by gravity, do not put the extremely high temperature pot or utensils directly in contact with the table, etc., you can pad a layer of insulation.
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With 30+ years of professional experience, Yeyang Quartz Stone is the leading exporter and manufacturer of quartz slabs in China sice 2012. We offer more than 300+ quartz slabs,including white, black,blue,green,beige,red, gray quartzslab etc.
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