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I just saw samples of this relatively new quartz product, today. It is a really beautiful material that resembles granite in appearance and price in its finished state. Has anyone worked with this stuff yet ? I am interested in a few things :
Tooling: carbide or diamond ?
Ease of cutting ?
Level of finish on top surface from factory: does it need multi-stage finishing like Corian ?
Method of seaming ?
Is factory training necessary for install and purchase ?
If so, what does the schooling cost ?
Approximate cost of raw material ?
I am assuming that Zodiaq is worked in a similar fashion to Corian since there seems to be an association with the Corian type installers. ( as opposed to a Granite type install).
Thanks for the help.
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Tim
Did you check out Zodiaq's web site. It should have many of those answers. I believe that I read that it is worked more like stone than a solid surface material.
There are other brands around Silestone (or something like it) is another. They are all made in Europe.
*It's a synthetic stone, in that it is manufactured. There are two or three out there now, and yeah the solid surface people are picking it up as an addition to their ss line (natural stone being usually a totally different line of business). I'm a ss fabricator (lapsed, at present, as I'm doing something different), and my distributor is bringing a similar product online. In our case, the major fabrication would be done at a stone fabricators, and an investement of 3500$ to 7000$ Cdn. (as I remember) would get you the tools to install and do some small scale fabrication. But it is stone, not ss. The biggest advantage I can see is colour selection; pricing is higher than ss, and with cheap Chinese and Brazilian stone knocking holes in the ss market, I'm not quite sure whre this stuff will end up.
*b WBA At Your ServiceThanks. Zodiaq's site is a high-glamour showroom and not the nuts and bolts I am seeking.
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b WBA At Your Service
I just saw samples of this relatively new quartz product, today. It is a really beautiful material that resembles granite in appearance and price in its finished state. Has anyone worked with this stuff yet ? I am interested in a few things :
Tooling: carbide or diamond ?
Ease of cutting ?
Level of finish on top surface from factory: does it need multi-stage finishing like Corian ?
Method of seaming ?
Is factory training necessary for install and purchase ?
If so, what does the schooling cost ?
Approximate cost of raw material ?
I am assuming that Zodiaq is worked in a similar fashion to Corian since there seems to be an association with the Corian type installers. ( as opposed to a Granite type install).
Thanks for the help.