Black Granite Worktops
Black Granite Worktops
A black granite worktop is one of the most striking choices you can make in a kitchen. Deep, dense and endlessly versatile, black granite pairs with almost any cabinet colour and carries both traditional and contemporary kitchens with ease. A 100% natural stone, each slab is formed over millions of years and finished by our craftsmen into a black granite kitchen worktop that is unique to your home.
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Why Choose Black Granite Worktops?
Black granite is a popular choice for homeowners who want a worktop with presence. As one of the hardest natural stones available, it withstands heat, knocks, and the daily use of a busy kitchen while giving the room a sense of depth and quality that lighter surfaces can’t match. Black granite kitchen worktops suit almost any scheme: they sharpen a white or cream kitchen through contrast, and they add richness to wood, navy or sage units. If you’d prefer a lighter surface, our white granite worktops offer the same natural durability in paler tones.
Black Granite Worktops
WHAT IS GRANITE?
Granite is a coarse-grained igneous rock formed from magma that cooled slowly deep beneath the Earth’s surface. Its name comes from the Latin granum, meaning grain, a nod to the visible mineral crystals that give the stone its speckled appearance. Its dark colouring comes from the minerals within it, amphibole and biotite in particular, sometimes broken by flecks of silver, gold or grey.
As one of the hardest natural materials on Earth, granite is highly resistant to heat, scratching and everyday wear. It is quarried from sites across the world, cut into large slabs and polished to a finish. Being a natural stone, it is slightly porous, so it is sealed to guard against staining and resealed every couple of years to keep it performing.
No two slabs of granite are ever the same. Each piece is formed over millions of years and carries its own pattern of colour, vein and crystal, which means every black granite worktop is unique to the slab it is cut from.
Why Choose Granite?
Features of Black Granite Worktops
Hard-Wearing and Heat Resistant
Black granite is one of the hardest natural stones available, second only to diamond. It resists heat, scratches and everyday wear, so a hot pan or a busy morning won’t trouble it. A well-fabricated black granite worktop will last decades and often adds long-term value to your home.
A Wide Range of Finishes
Black granite is available in polished, honed and leathered finishes, and the finish changes how the worktop performs as well as how it looks. Polished is the hardest-wearing and easiest to wipe down, with a reflective surface that shows depth. Honed is smooth and matte, softer underhand and less reflective. Leathered has a subtle texture that hides marks and fingerprints particularly well. We’ll talk you through which finish suits how you use your kitchen.
Easy to Clean and Maintain
Black granite worktops wipe clean with warm water and mild soap. As a natural stone, granite benefits from being resealed every couple of years to keep liquids from sinking in, and our team will guide you through the simple routine. On a polished black surface, water marks and fingerprints show more readily than on a lighter or busier stone. A quick buff keeps it looking its best, and a honed or speckled slab hides them almost entirely.
More than lighter stones, yes, particularly the near-solid blacks in a polished finish. It’s the one trade-off of the look, and it’s easily managed: a quick wipe and buff keeps a polished black granite worktop pristine. If you’d rather not think about it at all, a speckled black granite or a honed finish hides marks far more effectively, which is worth discussing before you choose.
Yes. Like all natural granite, a black granite kitchen worktop should be resealed every couple of years to stop liquids penetrating the stone. It’s a simple job that takes minutes, and we’ll show you how.
Decades. Granite is one of the hardest materials on Earth, and a properly fitted and maintained black granite worktop will comfortably outlast most other elements of your kitchen, which is part of why it so often adds value to a home.
Very. Granite is formed under extreme heat, so a hot pan straight from the hob won’t damage it. We still recommend a trivet for the sealer’s sake rather than the stone’s.
Price depends on the slab, the size of your kitchen and the edge and finish details you choose. Black granite spans a wide range, from accessible everyday blacks to rarer, more dramatic slabs. The best way to get an accurate figure is to send us your rough measurements for a no-obligation quote.
Black granite ranges from near-solid blacks through silver- and gold-speckled slabs to dramatic veined pieces, in polished, honed and leathered finishes. Our current range is shown in the grid above; because natural stock changes, the best way to see what’s in is to browse the live selection or visit the showroom.
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