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How to take care of your Silestone worktops Made of 90% quartz, one of the toughest natural materials, Silestone is easy to care for and difficult to damage. Despite knowing it’s literally tough as rock, many people are wary of using the wrong product on their new Silestone worktop. Below you’ll find what you need to know to keep your Silestone worktop in great shape for years – or decades – to come. Daily cleaning of Silestone worktops Silestone is easy to maintain. For most day-to-day cleaning, all you have […]

Granite Kitchen worktops, where the granite comes from Granite, mostly known for the stone used in common granite worktops, are igneous rocks formed by slowly cooling pockets of magma trapped beneath the earth’s surface.  It can form to become a part of continental crust layers made up of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks which form the areas of shallow seabed close to the shore.

I recently stumbled across an amazing artist who works solely in slate! The nature of the shape of slate creates stunning visual effects in terms of shadow and light. The image shows Alan Turing, who “did more than any other to make possible the breaking of the German Enigma codes at the secret Station X at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire.”. On his website http://www.stephenkettle.co.uk, Stephen explains that the process takes a great deal of time, an average of 60 hours per week! He goes on to say that this process […]