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Installing Quartz Kitchen Countertops
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" David Miller and his men are here to install our countertops and also to tell us about. Zodiac a new product from DuPont right DuPont quartz surfacing we're looking at one. Section over here talking about it what's it made out of well this is a natural silica quartz product 93%. Natural product so together with a polymer they actually go out and mine quartz veins and chop them up so that all little flecks that they're all white. It's all white before it gets into the mix actually it's big minutes. And then it's put together with a polymer binder it's heavy what does this stuff way cool I would say about sixteen to seventeen pounds a square foot a square foot. And the user slash backsplash pieces yes there the beautiful shot is over here where it's already been put in place one thing that we've. We were noticing earlier is that it doesn't have the high gloss of a natural granite that's correct the polymers do not. Shine up quite as much as the granite Steelers did to us a little bit more he knows it is a subtle look and makes it a little bit easier to care for actually. So we'll have the sink here and then we've got a nice corner section all the way to over here. What kind of joint have you made here this is called the masons miter and we do this because. The strength that begins. Back to the countertop itself. Instead of coming out of 45 -- straight line. He gives it an extra measure of security in the seam OK and then -- is the installation. Rather you know putting the seam together were just a proxy epoxy it's a special epoxy it's a polyester epoxy knife grade. Manufactured by DuPont. Every color has its own now a posse so that it matches perhaps what. Now I always think of the big challenge in you know islands and corners and all that. Installing stone or marble or whatever. Making your templates so did you -- when you when we're building a house in a factory do you come to the factory to make the templates -- what do you do we -- in this case we do normally 99% of what we do outside is done with templates -- makes a template. But here we get a digital image. From simplex right we take that digital image and transfer it into our computers and those computers either cut templates. Or information goes directly into the computer controlled routers which cut out the pieces to the exact size who got a lot of confidence in this kind of state of the art technology it works it works -- OK is this the via the -- splash for there. K and how does it install if you're putting it in vertically just also with a proxies. Is gonna be silicone on the back. Well after dozens of silicon sealer silicon sealer and that will be good enough. Directly onto the drywall. Directly into the -- and put a big bead down the bottom where the joint will be so that you that's correct make sure you don't have any water get back in there. This is a very nice detail that. Our designer owner thought up. Because we basically kept the counters out so that we could build that that shelf in into the frame. And then we'll look yeah it's a good look plus you end up with kind of a nice built in shelf where you can keep the salt and pepper or you know. Different things it's use -- and we are looking at the space exactly. Where we'll have the stove when this orphanage I keep getting in the way here. And that is the shocked I. And a little bit of shimming and you'll have been underway right."
