Cultured Marble Countertops

What are Cultured Marble Shower Walls and Vanity Tops

In layman’s terms, cultured marble is a mixture of fiberglass, resin, and crushed limestone.
A more technical description is as follows: Cultured marble belongs to the family of cast polymers. Cast polymers are a mixture of an unsaturated polyester resin, highly filled with inorganic particulates and pigments. Fillers used are engineered calcium carbonates (for cultured marble), and aluminum tri-hydrate with a suspension of speciality formulated colour chips (for cultured granite).

Edmonton Bath Products offers a wide variety of Cultured Marble vanity tops, Cultured Granite and Tyvarian products, which have the appearance of stone at an affordable price, mold and mildew resistant, and best of all, easy to maintain!

Whether your needs are a result of new construction or bathroom remodeling, we have the product choices and the experiences to meet your needs for function, style, and durability. All of our finely crafted products are custom manufactured with premium quality materials and installed with superior craftsmanship.

• Over 40 colors available
• Cultured Marble Vanity Tops
• Cultured Marble Shower Walls
• Shower panels, Surrounds, Shower Stalls
• Bathroom Accessories

Cultured Marble Countertop Availability

Cultured marble countertops have been an available option for homeowners for several decades. However, in recent years technology has improved to the point that the material is much more durable and reliable. The ones that Edmonton Bath Products, Ltd. is making today look much more like genuine marble than the cultured ones that were made even just a few years ago. Today, it’s difficult to tell the difference between a genuine marble countertop and one that has been cultured. You have to take away the top layers of the cultured marble before you’ll be able to tell a difference. So if you’ve been thinking about putting in marble countertops but the price has been holding you back, give us a call at Edmonton Bath Products. We’ll show you some of the newest advances in cultured marble so that your guests will think you have the real thing…without draining your bank account.

Benefits of Cultured Marble Countertops:

Crushed marble, calcium carbonate, resins, pigment and other materials go into cultured marble countertops. Over time, these countertops last longer and are easier to maintain than genuine marble. You don’t have to invest in costly cleansers that claim to work only on marble, and you don’t have to watch that expensive marble chip away over time.

Even when the genuine marble countertops have superior craftsmanship, the material itself is the problem. Marble is porous, which means that scratches, stains and chips are simply a fact of life. You can put on a marble sealant, but you’ll have to keep reapplying those as time goes by, and even then, chips and scratches are just going to happen. Cultured marble countertops go in for a small fraction of the cost of genuine marble. Edmonton Bath Products offers cultured marble countertops in a wide variety of colors to match any decoratie scheme. You also can choose from solid colors, blended and veined looks.

What if you have an existing marble countertop and want to change the color without installing a new countertop? With refinishing, we can only apply solid finishes, there are refinishers that specialize in work on enamel or porcelain to change the color to match what you want. Cultured marble countertops can also be repaired in case of damage — if the necessary work does not involve alterations to the structure of the countertop. If you have a genuine marble countertop, repair is almost always impossible, making replacement necessary.

If you do get some stains, light scratches or other changes to the color on a cultured marble countertop, fine-grit sandpaper often works to bring those out. After you’re happy with the sanding, use a buffing pad on an electric grill to apply paste wax to the surface. In most cases, this will restore the shine so that it looks just about brand new. There are also some cultured marble cleaners available when you stop getting ideal results with standard bathroom cleaners.