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Granite For Your Kitchen
If you have a big budget then you will surely go for the beauty and strength of granite when replacing your kitchen countertop. The high quality goes with the high price. And it’s because it is so expensive that helps give it such a high status in the market. Even with the proliferation of outstanding alternative countertop materials in the market, granite is still able to hold its place among the top countertop material choices. Buying granite countertops are indeed astute investments, as many ritzy homeowners have found.
If you are buying a quality product, you can’t expect a budget price tag. With granite’s extraordinary strength and its gorgeous natural colors, its expensive price is very much justified. There are a lot of expenses incurred in bringing a beautiful granite countertop right at your doorsteps. We can’t change the way granite is processed, but there’s a way by which granite fabricators have classified granite to work for the benefit of the average homeowner.
Granite suppliers have now made granite available in different grades. Whole granite slabs will still be the most expensive. You can expect to pay from around $60 to $120 per square foot. Sometimes, the price can go even higher at $200 per square foot if the granite slab has very unique colors and vein patterns.
What would take the interest of the average homeowner are the affordable granite grades. There are several of these types of granites. One is prefab granite which is definitely smaller than granite slabs, therefore significantly lower in price. They come in two sizes: the 26 inches by 98 inches and the 42 inches by 98 inches. Another class is the granite tile, which is even smaller than prefab granite, therefore much less in price as well. They are available in 12 inch by 12 inch sizes.
The lowest priced granite is the granite remnant. These remnants are in irregular shapes since they are basically left-over pieces from granite slab cuttings. You have to exercise your imagination in using them to build granite countertops because their shapes and sizes are truly irregular. All these lower priced granite are still essentially made of granite stone, with the same quality, beauty and strength.
