Hello. Welcome to Real Estate with Brenda K. I'm Brenda K with the Halifax Home
Selling Group we're here with Sean of East Coast Countertops. Don't go away
we'll be right back and show you some awesome solid surfaces.
And we're back. Sean tell us about this or tell our viewers about this. This is
an acrylic.
Yeah so acrylic solid surface countertops really is the only type of
countertop that's completely and easily repairable. So the only downside of
this countertop would be you should see scratches a little sooner but scratches
can be buffed out it can be easily polished out. Any gouges can be fixed.
Any, certainly if you ever melted it or do anything with heat.
That would have been my next question. What about, you have to be careful like this in with hot pots.
Yeah now you have to be careful with all countertops with hot pots a little
bit of a myth that you can put it on some, so you should be careful maybe
put a hot plate down on any countertop but this one you could definitely repair if you
ever damage it.
I want to show you guys something so because Sean
does the whole gamut here with sinks taps and we talked about the last time
we're here so this is a double stainless steel sink here and there just slide
this out so you've got a cutting board so all custom cut for your sink and then-
and this is really neat I love this
a drying rack.
a drying rack that you
literally just rolls up and put away.
And also good for put your pots on your countertop or your table.
that can be hot plate as well.
You could do that would do the same thing yeah so I know these
are the different types of of the acrylic, right?
Yep.
Okay and then over here tell us about your quartz and your granite.
So quartz and granite we
have well quartz alone we have well over 300 samples of quartz in the showroom
here it's about 340 now.
Wow.
from all over the world a lot we like to
sell the ones that are made in Canada we have some in the US, Korea, China as
well so lots of different options for different budgets and different styles.
Okay now quartz and granite what's the difference between quartz and granite?
Granite's natural stone so literally cut from a rock polished up and this is
what you're going to put in your countertop.
Okay.
Quartz is man-made so it's still stone but it's crushed up stone crushed up granite and quartz and
different stones and mixed with a resin. Each company has sort
of their own little their own mix of resin. Yeah so it is
man-made there's no sealing. So granite is very porous you should seal that
regularly once a year at least.
So what would you seal it with. Do you have it here?
A granite sealer, yeah. So with quartz, this one is quartz right
here you don't have to seal any quartz.
Yeah it's kind of hard to tell the difference, isn't it?
Sometimes it is, yeah. Quartz tends to be a lot more
consistent though. Granite you'll see especially exotic granite you'll see the
textures they'll be a little wild sometimes.
What about seams, Sean? if you have like one big long piece. Are there seams or can
they cut them off- this is beautiful.
Okay yeah this there's no obviously there's
no seams on this we could go like it approximately ten foot island we still
do with no seams.
That's a big that's a big piece of, you know, quartz or granite.
Now if you have a complicated kitchen with a few seams back to acrylic is the
surface because you don't see the seams. We can do that seamless, we blend it so you can't even see where the
seams are so some people have a u-shaped kitchen yeah this is a nice surface for that.
Okay, all right. So Sean is located here on Illsley Avenue what number, Sean?
71 Illsley Avenue and he has absolutely
everything to do with countertops sinks like you said sinks taps yeah backsplash
tile yeah so you have that cabinet hardware yeah come in and get a whole quote. Do you
guys go out to people's home measure it all out and give them an estimate?
Usually we can we can measure off approximate measurements.
Okay
that people can bring in. We'll certainly go to the house and do a laser template
when we're ready to do any fabricate it.
Okay before you cut it. Okay, well thanks
for having us in today.
My pleasure.
That was awesome. Can I come back some other time?
Yes, love to have you.
Okay all right I'm Brenda K with the Halifax Home Selling Group.
We're here at East Coast Countertops with Sean Mitchell and you've got to come in
and see all the things in this showroom it's absolutely amazing so I'll be back
next week with my Tour Around Town. Remember my purpose is real estate my
passion is you. See ya.
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