My kitchen is only 5 years old but the worktop is wrecked. It's a laminate worktop which has blown at the joins and is badly stained and no amount of scrubbing or cleaning is sorting it out.
I've never really liked it anyway so it was a good excuse to replace the tops. I toyed with the idea of granite or quartz because it always looks lovely in showrooms but I thought of the weight on the units and also the fact that it has to come in through the kitchen window so then thought of the quartz on a chipboard substrate type top (Homebase do something like I'm talking about - Ezystone) but the guy at the local trade place told me that they stopped stocking it because the veneer cracked and split and they had nothing but complaints with it.
Then the guy that was doing some work for me said to get Easystone from B&Q - corian type surface on chipboard substrate. I was going to go for that - but got let down by the guy doing the work but maybe it's fate because I've heard a lot of complaints about it.
So now, I've no idea what to do. The kitchen units are walnut. Kitchen is north facing with not a very big window so it doesn't get a lot of light - so I really wanted a pristine white top to throw up some light and look good against the walnut.
Anyone got any recommendations please? Do I get the B&Q stuff or Getacore (same difference)? Do I stick with laminate - and would a pure white laminate be a nightmare to keep white?
Do I go back to the original idea of the Ezystone type stuff?
Help!
I've never really liked it anyway so it was a good excuse to replace the tops. I toyed with the idea of granite or quartz because it always looks lovely in showrooms but I thought of the weight on the units and also the fact that it has to come in through the kitchen window so then thought of the quartz on a chipboard substrate type top (Homebase do something like I'm talking about - Ezystone) but the guy at the local trade place told me that they stopped stocking it because the veneer cracked and split and they had nothing but complaints with it.
Then the guy that was doing some work for me said to get Easystone from B&Q - corian type surface on chipboard substrate. I was going to go for that - but got let down by the guy doing the work but maybe it's fate because I've heard a lot of complaints about it.
So now, I've no idea what to do. The kitchen units are walnut. Kitchen is north facing with not a very big window so it doesn't get a lot of light - so I really wanted a pristine white top to throw up some light and look good against the walnut.
Anyone got any recommendations please? Do I get the B&Q stuff or Getacore (same difference)? Do I stick with laminate - and would a pure white laminate be a nightmare to keep white?
Do I go back to the original idea of the Ezystone type stuff?
Help!