Quartz worktops in Guildford? Our county town? Just 45 minutes away in the vans? Where our boss lives? You can bet that we are VERY happy to quote for, take orders for, template and install Guildford quartz worktops. The town may have a reputation for being a little bit conservative, but when it comes to home renovation, Guildford people are very open to technological advances and contemporary looks. Quartz worktops fit the bill, and we are in the town practically every week to install modern kitchen worktops.
Guildford is actually a good mix of Old and New. It has one of the oldest religiously founded hospitals in the UK, together with one of the newest cathedrals. It incorporates fine traditional houses and very modern homes. With easy connection to London, many locally-based companies, and one of the best universities in the South East, Guildford is a happy place in terms of employment and general standard of living. It is no surprise to find Guildford people maintaining their homes to a high standard, and that means solid stone worktops.
Guildford Guildhall, at the heart of Surrey’s County Town
Photo: Kreepin Deth licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Old – Abbots Hospital Guildford
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New – Guildford Cathedral Interior
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Looking through our work in Guildford over recent years it is obvious that traditional, natural stone granite worktops have lost some ground to quartz worktops. This is as everywhere else: it isn’t so much that we are doing fewer granite kitchen worktops, but that more and more people are looking for stone countertops in their kitchen, and it is quartz that has grown into that market. Man-made, engineered stone is composed of about 93% sand, glass, quartz and other minerals, and around 7% plastic resin. For more about the differences between granite and quartz worktops and their respective advantages, please see here.
Guildford Quartz Worktops:
Radianz Lucern lake – a lovely natural-look stone which we now stock
Guildford Quartz Worktops:
A beautiful family kitchen fitted with B-Stone Blanco Massa tops on the Guildown Road side of town. Click for full case study.
Guildford quartz worktops reflect the same tendencies that we see right across our region: a strong trend to marble-look materials, with increasing numbers of soft, earthy tones, sometimes in combination with an industrial look and feel.
Guildford Public Library
Photo: Photo collage found on Pxhere – photographer unknown
An example of our comparative quartz images: the “concrete-style” look, with an industrial-yet-warm quality which is currently on trend.Â
Guildford isn’t just Guildford, of course! As with most towns, villages have been enveloped by its growth, and there are surrounding villages and small towns too. All of them are familiar to us as we have installed quartz worktops just about everywhere in this part of the county!
Bluebells in Chantry Woods by Sharron Green – a Guildford winner in our recent photo competition
Godalming Pepperpot
Photo: Warofdreams at English Wikipedia GNU Free Documentation License.
Shalford Pill Box – looking for some quartz worktops, perhaps?
Photo: Simon Burchell Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Spring Daffodils in Merrow
Photo: Colin Smith / Spring in Merrow /Â
In our recent “Surrey Living” photo competition we had more entries from Guildford and surrounding area than from anywhere else. Here are a few favourites from our competition and from other sources.
Guildford Spoons by James Hancock.
Whether you love or loathe Wetherspoons, there is no doubting the quality of this great night shot from the very heart of Guildford.
St Martha’s – Sharron Green
Guildford and its satellite villages are at the heart of the real commuter belt – here is Worplesdon station.Â
Photo: Ben Brooksbank / Worplesdon Station /Â
Quartz worktops from our factory at Charlwood in Surrey can get to Guildford well inside an hour. Because we have senior staff living in the area, templating can even be done en route home from work. If you are in Guildford and looking for solid stone kitchen worktops, you need to include Affordable Granite as a local, high quality, good value and customer-focused firm as you research products and installers. If you are considering a new kitchen, or upgrading the worktops on your existing one, please don’t hesitate to contact us for a quotation, or just call for advice and support on 01293 863992.
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