Choosing a building material for a project is never an easy task. There’s a range of questions you need to ask yourself or your client first to even narrow down the options: what will you use the material for, the style, commercial or residential type of the building, exterior or interior usage, and even the level of humidity in the area. Xiamen Aofei Building Materials experts are here to make this process smoother for you. In this blog article, we will look at the main differences and similarities between the two extremely popular building materials: quartz and granite.

Granite vs. Quartz: Real Estate Value

Granite slab walls and quartz countertops, as well as other implications of natural stone materials, improve the value of your real estate, especially when compared to materials such as laminate or ceramic.

Granite sometimes may be valued slightly better, as it is a fully-natural stone material.

Granite vs. Quartz: Cost & Price

Both quartz and granite fall into the premium building materials category and are not the cheapest options available. The two types of stone are quite comparable and generally cost about the same.

Surely, the prices may vary depending on your supplier’s quarry location, transportation costs, and specific types of granite and quartz. But most of the time if you are choosing between the two for your kitchen countertop or bathroom flooring tile, the price won’t be the decision making factor.

Granite vs. Quartz: Composition

Quartz is a type of natural stone, but most of the quartz building materials are engineered and consist of a small portion of other minerals and a large portion of quartz.

Granite is also a type of natural stone, though unlike quartz, granite building materials are made purely out of natural granite.

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