The different types of patterns and veins in marble and natural stone give a unique personality to each variety and even to each piece.
Vein matching marble.
Whether the countertop is for the kitchen or the bath surface.
Surface encounters uses the latest in vein matching technology to produce matched vein for any marble or granite countertop.
All recent examples of vein matching we have done can be seen below.
Worktop vein matching here we take a look at colour and vein matching with some colours of granite and quartz.
The steady growth in big vein marble look quartz has led to our templaters sawyers and fitters being more conscious of this issue than ever before and it is right for our customers to have some awareness of the challenges too.
As if it were a fingerprint each type of marble or stone has a different pattern and in addition depending on the place and time of extraction this pattern can be very different.
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Vein matching for granite marble and quartz worktops.
In our vein matching process we combine and superimpose a digital image of your exact slabs the laser optic measure from your home and the cad drawing of your precise layout which allows us to determine the best possible.
In this case the stone or marble is normally cut from the same slab and kept in a sequence so they appear matched in order.
We use vein matching to ensure that two different slabs appear to be one continue slab with veins that match each other.
Usually granite will cause the biggest issue but due to the improvement and technology advances in quartz slab fabrication this is now also noteworthy for quartz worktops too.
As stone masons are constrained by the limitations of the size of the slabs the cost of a project may be higher depending on the skill and difficulty involved in matching the veins in the stone.
Vein matching is dissimilar to book matching in that the marble in the space such as bathrooms or kitchen splashbacks creates a sense of continuity.
What are the best types of stone for vein matching.
Marble and onyx tend to be better suited for this application because these stones generally have very defined patterns or veins.
Marble stirs the imagination in many ways.
If you are interested in getting a worktop installation with vein matching please contact us we can accommodate for your needs.
Where book matching is used the backs of the stone slabs will need to be polished and matched so the result seems flawless.
Perhaps the best plan here is to develop a brief understanding of marble and then move on to veins and veining.