Browse Forums Kitchen Corner Re: Recent kitchen makeover - Essa Stone has a chip! :-( 21Aug 26, 2014 9:24 pm Gee thanks for posting your experience Danien. We are considering stone with waterfall edges to our large kitchen benches. For the $7k investment, it's not good enough to be told to accept it could chip. Considering you didn't even do anything. If I got a response like that from a kitchen company, I'd be really unhappy. Again thanks for the enlightenment as it seems to be quite covert until a problem does appear. Good luck with the fix. I hope it turns out okay. Laminates look great these days. Maybe not so 'trendy' but that can be a good thing. Re: Recent kitchen makeover - Essa Stone has a chip! :-( 22Aug 26, 2014 11:36 pm And this is how they're made apparently http://youtu.be/yoQvodEQ3D4 No wonder they chip Re: Recent kitchen makeover - Essa Stone has a chip! :-( 23Aug 27, 2014 10:42 am Quote: And this is how they're made apparently http://youtu.be/yoQvodEQ3D4 False. That is a homemade concrete countertop made in someones garage not an artificial or composite stone like caesarstone made in a multimillion dollar factory to the highest tolerances. A world apart! Stewie Re: Recent kitchen makeover - Essa Stone has a chip! :-( 24Aug 27, 2014 12:58 pm TomCat Gee thanks for posting your experience Danien. We are considering stone with waterfall edges to our large kitchen benches. For the $7k investment, it's not good enough to be told to accept it could chip. Considering you didn't even do anything. If I got a response like that from a kitchen company, I'd be really unhappy. Again thanks for the enlightenment as it seems to be quite covert until a problem does appear. Good luck with the fix. I hope it turns out okay. Laminates look great these days. Maybe not so 'trendy' but that can be a good thing. Umm, you really don't have any idea about this product. Its the same as any natural stone like granite or marble. Its very very hard but can be brittle. Do you have the same opinion of the paint on your car? It chips to! Hit anything hard enough and it will chip. For anyone reading this thread quartz based stones are a great surface for your kitchen bench tops. They are generally hard wearing, allow many design possibility's and are priced well. Cutting Edge Kitchens and Cabinet Making http://cuttingedgekitchens.net.au http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cutting-Edge-Kitchens/290484196676 Mobile : 0419 430 575 PH: 9452 4772 Fax :9452 4772 cuttingedgekitchens@outlook.com Re: Recent kitchen makeover - Essa Stone has a chip! :-( 25Aug 27, 2014 1:00 pm TomCat And this is how they're made apparently http://youtu.be/yoQvodEQ3D4 No wonder they chip JUST WOW This is how internet rumors are started. This isn't even close to how they are made. Its like comparing a 1 year old finger painting with a Van Gogh!!! Cutting Edge Kitchens and Cabinet Making http://cuttingedgekitchens.net.au http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cutting-Edge-Kitchens/290484196676 Mobile : 0419 430 575 PH: 9452 4772 Fax :9452 4772 cuttingedgekitchens@outlook.com Re: Recent kitchen makeover - Essa Stone has a chip! :-( 26Aug 27, 2014 3:41 pm CuttingEdgeKitchens JUST WOW This is how internet rumors are started. This isn't even close to how they are made. Its like comparing a 1 year old finger painting with a Van Gogh!!! Spot on! Here's our video on the manufacturing process of Caesarstone if anyone is interested! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_RD3cGlqzU#t=137 Re: Recent kitchen makeover - Essa Stone has a chip! :-( 27Aug 27, 2014 4:18 pm Welcome Australia's best horizontal surface supplier to this forum . Quality is like buying oats. If you want good,fresh oats,you'll pay a fair price. However,if you can be satisfied with the oats that have already been through the horse, that comes a little cheaper. Re: Recent kitchen makeover - Essa Stone has a chip! :-( 28Aug 27, 2014 10:45 pm I was being funny. Obviously no sense of humour. And again condescending as I expected -- as you were to Damien. The worst kind of sales people to deal with.
Re: Recent kitchen makeover - Essa Stone has a chip! :-( 29Aug 27, 2014 11:02 pm CaesarstoneAU CuttingEdgeKitchens JUST WOW This is how internet rumors are started. This isn't even close to how they are made. Its like comparing a 1 year old finger painting with a Van Gogh!!! Spot on! Here's our video on the manufacturing process of Caesarstone if anyone is interested! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_RD3cGlqzU#t=137 Thank you Ceasarstone. It is your product I am considering for my home. $7k in the kitchen + $1.3k worth in other wet areas. What happens if a dish were to fall out of my cupboard onto to surface and it chipped? Is there a guarantee on the hardness, the kitchen suppliers above suggest that's bad luck. How do you determine the hardness factor and chip resistance. Your video mentioned crack resistance but not chip resistance. Damien who raised the problem had a chip. Thank you. Re: Recent kitchen makeover - Essa Stone has a chip! :-( 30Aug 28, 2014 9:46 am GBDesign Welcome Australia's best horizontal surface supplier to this forum . Thanks! We've been reading for a while now so figured it was about time to join! TomCat Thank you Ceasarstone. It is your product I am considering for my home. $7k in the kitchen + $1.3k worth in other wet areas. What happens if a dish were to fall out of my cupboard onto to surface and it chipped? Is there a guarantee on the hardness, the kitchen suppliers above suggest that's bad luck. How do you determine the hardness factor and chip resistance. Your video mentioned crack resistance but not chip resistance. Damien who raised the problem had a chip. Thank you. As tough as Caesarstone is - almost 5 times the impact resistance of marble and over 2 times the impact resistance of granite - it's not indestructible and chips can sometimes happen. It is very rare to see a chip in the middle of a benchtop though. Quartz itself is one of natures hardest minerals, ranking 7 on the Mohs Hardness scale (Diamonds are 10), but we also determine hardness and chip resistance in accordance with international standards, the results of which are available on our website. As chips are caused by an impact rather than a fault with the product these aren't usually covered under warranty unfortunately. But as Caesarstone is essentially compacted quartz it means chips can be repaired quite easily and the end result is almost seamless. As Damien has not used Caesarstone it is difficult for us to comment on his exact situation, but hopefully this provides a bit of perspective. Re: Recent kitchen makeover - Essa Stone has a chip! :-( 31Aug 28, 2014 10:01 am TomCat I was being funny. Obviously no sense of humour. And again condescending as I expected -- as you were to Damien. The worst kind of sales people to deal with. Don't worry TC! I knew you were having a joke and a laugh... CaesarstoneAU GBDesign Welcome Australia's best horizontal surface supplier to this forum . Thanks! We've been reading for a while now so figured it was about time to join! TomCat Thank you Ceasarstone. It is your product I am considering for my home. $7k in the kitchen + $1.3k worth in other wet areas. What happens if a dish were to fall out of my cupboard onto to surface and it chipped? Is there a guarantee on the hardness, the kitchen suppliers above suggest that's bad luck. How do you determine the hardness factor and chip resistance. Your video mentioned crack resistance but not chip resistance. Damien who raised the problem had a chip. Thank you. As tough as Caesarstone is - almost 5 times the impact resistance of marble and over 2 times the impact resistance of granite - it's not indestructible and chips can sometimes happen. It is very rare to see a chip in the middle of a benchtop though. Quartz itself is one of natures hardest minerals, ranking 7 on the Mohs Hardness scale (Diamonds are 10), but we also determine hardness and chip resistance in accordance with international standards, the results of which are available on our website. As chips are caused by an impact rather than a fault with the product these aren't usually covered under warranty unfortunately. But as Caesarstone is essentially compacted quartz it means chips can be repaired quite easily and the end result is almost seamless. As Damien has not used Caesarstone it is difficult for us to comment on his exact situation, but hopefully this provides a bit of perspective. That's really interesting info, thanks CaesarstoneAU. We have just had our Caesarstone benchtops installed, in Jet Black. They look divine... I really preferred the colour options you had over other brands, and was happy our builder used Caesarstone. Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=66299 Slab: 16/6/14 Frame: 4/7/14 Roof: 22/7/14 Lock Up: 20/8/14 Fixing: 26/8/14 PCI: 9/10/14 Handover: 20/10/14 Re: Recent kitchen makeover - Essa Stone has a chip! :-( 32Aug 28, 2014 10:15 am deluxes We have just had our Caesarstone benchtops installed, in Jet Black. They look divine... I really preferred the colour options you had over other brands, and was happy our builder used Caesarstone. Fantastic! Very glad to hear you loved our range too, we like to think we have the best choice of colours and designs in Australia! Re: Recent kitchen makeover - Essa Stone has a chip! :-( 33Aug 28, 2014 7:20 pm Thank you. Stainless steel is looking good right now. Deluxes' black bench tops looks awesome ... Make sure hubby keeps them polished. Mr TC is not worthy of such glamour Scared he's the one to do summat nasty to them Re: Recent kitchen makeover - Essa Stone has a chip! :-( 34Aug 29, 2014 11:11 am TomCat :) Thank you. Stainless steel is looking good right now. And wont after a couple of years! Go and have a look at a professional kitchen sometime. The stainless is all scratched up! Its perfect for industrial kitchens but I think it looks ordinary in home kitchens. Just my opinion though! Cutting Edge Kitchens and Cabinet Making http://cuttingedgekitchens.net.au http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cutting-Edge-Kitchens/290484196676 Mobile : 0419 430 575 PH: 9452 4772 Fax :9452 4772 cuttingedgekitchens@outlook.com Re: Recent kitchen makeover - Essa Stone has a chip! :-( 35Aug 30, 2014 12:19 am I wish I had put stainless steel benches at the back of my kitchen, next to the stove. And then still had my stone island. It would be nice to lift a pot out of the oven straight onto the surface. Some people like the scratches, as it adds character. I like it in modern kitchens that feature concrete and timber. Re: Recent kitchen makeover - Essa Stone has a chip! :-( 36Aug 30, 2014 9:36 am joannek . Some people like the scratches, as it adds character. . Yep agreed. I find it a love or hate thing. Some people really love it and others just cant live with the scratching. Cutting Edge Kitchens and Cabinet Making http://cuttingedgekitchens.net.au http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cutting-Edge-Kitchens/290484196676 Mobile : 0419 430 575 PH: 9452 4772 Fax :9452 4772 cuttingedgekitchens@outlook.com Re: Recent kitchen makeover - Essa Stone has a chip! :-( 37Aug 30, 2014 10:11 am Agree too. About fifteen years ago I worked for a mate doing a large reno to a multi-million dollar apartment in inner Sydney and we got talking to the client about his new marble benchtops that had just been installed. Some of guys including the kitchen installer were there telling him he had to be careful not to chip or stain the marble ( it was a very light greyish white colour ). Then he told us about the time he rented a Tuscan farmhouse and a cook for a couple of months for his extended family. When they got there the old girl was cutting up a couple of rabbits and chooks in the kitchen. She was just chopping them up directly on the marble with a meat cleaver. There were stains, cuts and chips all over the marble benchtop from the blood, wine, olive oil and a few thousand meals that had been prepared on these tops over the last few hundred years. He reckoned it was one of the best looking benchtops he'd ever seen and all those imperfections just added to the look especially the patina. He wasn't worried about his new benchtops at all and thinks we get a bit prissy and over protective these days about our houses. They are meant to be lived in so it is inevitable that the working surfaces like floors, sinks and benchtops will get chips, scratches, stains etc. Stewie Re: Recent kitchen makeover - Essa Stone has a chip! :-( 38Aug 30, 2014 11:37 am What a great story. They love their marble benches in France as well. Nice and cool for pastry and chocolate. They really do use them as a work surface don't they? Hmm a Tuscan farmhouse and a cook for a month. Sounds lovely right about now! Re: Recent kitchen makeover - Essa Stone has a chip! :-( 39Aug 30, 2014 4:04 pm Him, his wife, their two sons plus their wives and their six grandkids used it as a base to go all over Europe plus numerous friends that dropped by for a week or two that summer. Sometimes there would be twenty people sitting down for dinner - all cooked in the classic Italian farmhouse style. It wasn't just a house either more like a compound with a grand villa as the main part. Knowing that his wifes investments/property was worth $120 mil alone I don't think cost was a factor. Stewie ( in a rather ordinary house on a wet and cold Sydney day ) Re: Recent kitchen makeover - Essa Stone has a chip! :-( 40Sep 22, 2014 5:12 pm CaesarstoneAU As tough as Caesarstone is - almost 5 times the impact resistance of marble and over 2 times the impact resistance of granite - it's not indestructible and chips can sometimes happen. It is very rare to see a chip in the middle of a benchtop though. As Damien has not used Caesarstone it is difficult for us to comment on his exact situation, but hopefully this provides a bit of perspective. Sounds like I'm just incredibly lucky Dear Members I have to decide the Facade column size. My custom builder standard is 350mm with rendering, but i asked for 470mm plus stone or tiles and yet to get… 0 7493 Hi, planning on using the attached stone pieces in my bathroom. I want to remove stains and gloss seal. Can I get some advice on best way to remove stains and best… 0 6700 Re my second point – yes exactly. 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