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Choosing the right flooring for your home or business can be daunting as it’s often a big-ticket item in a renovation project and is one you’ll use every day for years or decades to come. As modern technologies make luxury stones, like granite or marble floors, more affordable, stone floors have seen a surge in popularity, with interior designers across the UK stripping back carpet and installing stone. Advantages of stone floors Durable – Surrey marble floors have lasted decades or even centuries Hard wearing – scratch and chip resistant […]

Kitchen worktops, as we know them today, started to appear around 1920 yet marble was in use throughout the home long before that. At Surrey Marble and Granite we often work on period properties and are fascinated by the details of home decoration and embellishment we see in these beautiful houses. Marble and granite have been known for their strength and beauty for thousands of years, yet some of the forms you see today are really quite new. Here’s our short jog through the history of marble.

Quartz stone kitchen worktops have certain advantages over some of their competitors. Quartz is non-porous, it is particularly resistant to corrosives and stains (for example coffee, wine, lemon juice, olive oil, vinegar, makeup and other products of daily use) and it is solid enough, retaining the same uniform composition throughout its thickness. This makes for a great material, as the integrity of more natural stone throughout a worktop may be questionable. However, all natural stone kitchen worktops may be tested to guarantee their integrity.