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Kitchen worktops can be expensive. But a kitchen worktop of any kind is often dictated in terms of price by the material used. Natural stone kitchen worktops can actually add more value to a property than they cost. Their solidity and strength are not an issue.

Manmade stone kitchen worktops compare in terms of price to granite worktops. Because of their resilience and durability, they frequently come with lifetime guarantees. Not only that, but they are also frequently greener than most of their plastic counterparts as they use both sustainable and non toxic materials that can easily be disposed of without harm to the environment. Various manufacturers of manmade stone will have copyright and intellectual property rights over numerous technologies and solutions to enhance the structural integrity, reactive qualities (to extreme heat, for example), tensile strength […]

Located in Wiltshire, Stonehenge is one of the most famous prehistoric monuments in the world. Archeologists believe that it was constructed around 3000 BC  from, in the most part, Preseli Spotted Dolerite. This stone, which is harder than granite is believed to have been brought all the way from the Preseli mountain range in Wales, a journey of around 250 miles. How the stones were transported this distance with the meager tools the natives are believed to have possessed has been deliberated for decades. The  glacial erratic theory suggests that […]