Apparently so, I'm afraid to say. I had 2 slabs installed into my new kitchen after searching high and low for the marble look but granite strength that all 12 stone distributors/fabricators told me I would get with quartzite. I am shocked that after very light use (ie: eating on and sons doing homework with staples in paper) that we are seeing scratch marks-silvery hair-like scratches on our 3 week old countertop.

I have the sample pieces that were given to me and I tried the glass experiment (which it passed) and leaving vinegar, tomato sauce and oil on it (which it also passed). I didn't think after so many experts had assured me of its strength that any kind of metal passing over it would mark it.

I am writing to ask for any help anyone can provide? I have a call into my fabricator who said he would call me this week about it. Will more sealer help? Am I cursed now with a countertop as fragile as marble in a house full of boys??

I feel hoodwinked but most of all desperate that we just wasted thousands of dollars on something we thought we were getting but didn't and now have damaged goods for all intents and purposes.

(fyi-i have read here on houzz several comments about how not all slabs are created equal--that many slabs being marketed as quartzite really are closer to marble in its properties. Someone said that their local dealers are actually classifying their quartzite as a kind of marble after [presumably] too many complaints. This is astonishing since even though I did get samples, the fact that EVERYBODY said it was as tough as granite, is simply not true.)

Help?

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