Elegant Granite Vanity Top Rundown!

Granite materials of all kinds have become a popular fixture in today’s homes and businesses. Its highly durable nature, combined with a naturally aesthetic appeal, has made it a popular upgrade in countertop and floor coverings among other applications. If you are thinking of installing granite in your home or business you may be interested to know a little bit about this incredibly abundant and unique material including its origin as a construction material, its properties and applications.

Granite is a significantly abundant natural igneous rock that has a medium or coarse grain texture. Granite rocks can be pink, gray or black in color or also some variation of the three which largely depends on their geological makeup. It has a color index of about 20% meaning that this is the percentage of the rock that is composed of darker minerals. Granite almost always has little or no internal structures meaning that it is consistent throughout making it one of the toughest substances. There are many forms and compositions of granite in nature and true granite rock is composed of specific mineral traces. A huge part of earth’s continental crust is made of granite making it obvious that it is one of the most plentiful minerals in the world. It comes from cooled magma that has intruded other rocks. These intrusions can be buried more than a mile into the earth’s crust however there are numerous variations of granite in formations suitable for mining around the globe.

Granite has been used for centuries as a construction material with some of its first applications being the Red Pyramid in Egypt which the 3rd largest of all the pyramids. The Egyptians used granite in a number of other construction applications as well. Modern day construction uses were use of granite as flooring for public buildings, monuments, and foundations. The rock’s unique durable nature makes it ideal for these applications. It is scratch and impact resistant and easily manipulated. Other popular uses for the stones include head stones, kitchen countertops, consumer flooring, or a granite vanity top and even stones used in the sport of curling!

An extensive production process is involved in mining construction and consumer grade granite, cutting it, polishing and honing it to be used in its various end user applications. This is partially what makes the cost and installation of granite and granite based materials so expensive. If you are considering using granite in your home or business you are sure to enjoy it for years to come because of its durable and attractive properties.