Bringing the beauty of granite into your home
come into our showroom and feel the quality.

Unit 8f Whitesbridge Industrial Estate. Southend Road. Billericay, Essex. CM11 2UL

Please call 01268 270008 or fax 01268 270004

Granite - What is it?

Granite is one of the hardest materials known to man and so granite kitchen worktops can
only be cut and polished using diamond tipped machines. Granite is a totally natural igneous
stone, containing a high amount of quartz, which has cooled from a molten state inside the
earth over a long period of time and under immense pressure. Geologists define granite as a
plutonic rock made up of coloured feldspar, white quartz and ferromagnesian minerals
(Amphiboles, Pyroxenes and Olivines). These minerals vary in their composition and
hardness and cause granite to have an amazing colour range.

Polished Stone's Granite worktops have a unique pattern that was produced when it cooled
tens of thousands, if not millions of years ago. Granite has only recently been used for kitchen
granite worktops, but craftsmen have used it for thousands of years in the building of palaces,
statues, churches, monuments and stately homes. Granite provides an exclusive, elegant and
enduring material in a variety of colours and textures. Polished Granite has immense strength
and durability making it an excellent choice for granite worktops and other surfaces around
the home and in the garden.