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Old 07-12-2020, 06:52 AM
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Originally Posted by JerryLBell View Post
We just stayed out of the kitchen and bathrooms while the installers were here. Our houses aren't huge, but you can manage social distance in them.

We were going to buy quartz over granite for the same reason but once we saw some of the stunning granite slabs, the quartz samples struck us as about as boring and bland as the high-definition laminate countertops that we were replacing. So we're going to put up with a little extra maintenance (we've had granite before and know what that entails) to get the extra beauty. But everybody has different needs and tastes.
I keep hearing about maintenance of granite. In our last house, we had granite countertops for 20+ years, never touched them, and they still looked like the day we had them installed. I'm not sure how some people use their kitchen that requires all the maintenance.