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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am in the process of buying a house with silestone counters... and I did not even KNOW what they were.  They looked cheaper than granite to me, and my realtor kept insisting "No, no, these are a step up from granite!" and she's ESL so I had no idea what that meant.  So I think most buyers are still looking for granite.[/quote]
Silestone is fake granite.
The agent was trying to make the sale.[/quote]

It is more expensive than granite because it is ground up stone mixed with [b]resin[/b] and doesn't need sealing.  I wanted to get Sillestone, but didn't want to pay $700 more for something that didn't look as nice as granite. I like the fact it doesn't need sealing. [/quote]

Isn't resin another word for plastic? So ground up stone mixed with plastic is better than a natural material?

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Er, yes. It's far better to manufacture a material, preferably using recycled components, than to dig massive holes in the earth, excavate the granite, and ship it in giant fuel-guzzling barges around the world. Is this really rocket science? Granite is very environmentally unfriendly. The areas will they mine it will take decades or more to recover, as bad as the mountain top coal mining sites. And this for kitchen counters. [/quote]

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