Kitchen Sink, Stone VS Stainless Steel VS Ceramic

In order to avoid any Amway motivation, I will introduce in detail the characteristics and main uses of each material sink. As for which sink is the most suitable for use, after reading it, you can have some points in your heart.

Stone sink.

Stone sink is divided into many types, artificial stone, marble. Quartz stone and so on, I will collectively call it stone sink here, and then analyze their common characteristics.

The history of stone sink is relatively long, I believe everyone has seen it when I was a child. In the 1980 s, the outdoor vegetable washing pool, mop pool, washing pool and so on in schools or some units were terrazzo, which was the earlier stone sink. Some problems or characteristics of the stone sink have always existed in essence from its appearance to the present. What problems were there in the stone sink at that time, and what problems will there be now. Just said that the development to now, the stone sink more and more beautiful, the more sophisticated process. Surface treatment has also improved a lot. Many stone sinks, you go to touch its surface with your hands, you can't feel the stone at all, but it is slippery, it is a layer of resin.

① Appearance problems. This problem is not much to say, after all, everyone's aesthetic is different.

The weight problem. Stone sink, is stainless steel, stone, ceramic, three materials inside the heaviest one. When you install the sink, you must consider the load-bearing capacity of the cabinet. Especially when installing, if you install the basin under the counter, you must ask clearly if the master can guarantee to fix it for you. Don't use the "clang" to fall down, heartbreak!

③ Hardness problem. The stone sink is very hard, hard and brittle. Your kitchen sink is to clean kitchen utensils, what kind of pots and bowls, one hand slipped off the stone sink, either broken kitchen utensils or cracked sink. Moreover, the corners of the stone sink are also relatively crisp, crisp like biscuits and very untouched. If you are accidentally touched by a big iron pan, you will be sad for a while.

④ Staining problem (permeability). The kitchen sink, often come into contact with some oil salt sauce vinegar tea. Due to the permeability of the stone, the colored liquid can easily penetrate into the stone, and you can't clean it at all. Especially after there are some small scratches, cracks, missing edges and corners in the stone trough, the dyeing speed bar can be seen with naked eyes. Anyone with experience should know that stone countertops in the kitchen are a good example. Some water stains on the table natural volatile dry, will leave some watermarks, stains. Then you can't clean it. Unless polished with professional tools and then coated. So you use a stone sink in the kitchen. It won't be long before you even want to see it. After all, dyeing is a big problem, which is why most stone sinks are dark. If you really like stone sinks and can afford high prices, it is also good to put a stone sink on the balcony for washing clothes or a stone mop pool in the corner.

Stainless steel sink.

Since the 1990 s, stainless steel sinks have entered the domestic market. Because of its light, strong, affordable, Yan value and other reasons, popular with consumers. At present, 95% of families use stainless steel sinks as kitchen sinks. Stainless steel itself has the characteristics of oil removal, anti pollution and so on. And because its hardness is not very high, it has good workability. Makes the stainless steel sink modeling diversification. The one-piece drawing is directly stamped out of a water tank with a steel plate, which greatly reduces the production cost of the product. So the sink market, the proportion of stainless steel sink is high.

All products have high and low end points, stainless steel sink is no exception. In addition to the material difference, the process is also very different. Stretching and handwork are obvious examples. Their specific characteristics are not described in detail here. Interested can look at the column: buy kitchen sink need to pay attention to what the cat? There are detailed introduction. Here I will generally introduce the characteristics of stainless steel sink.

① stainless steel sink of light and degreasing anti-fouling.

The weight of the stainless steel sink is determined by the thickness of the material. The stretch sink is thinner, so it is much lighter. Manual sink is heavier, it is also relative to stretch the sink in terms. Therefore, when installing, as long as there is no structural restriction, the platform and the platform are installed at will, and there is no need to worry too much about the load-bearing problem.

A stainless steel water tank, the surface treatment process has mirror light (can be used as a mirror), wire drawing (with uniform texture), matt 2B plate (the original plate does not need processing), because wire drawing treatment is used more, I will also talk about a characteristic of manual wire drawing.

A high-end hand-made sink, the surface of the drawing texture must be uniform and delicate, with the hand feel very smooth, no rough feel. If you enlarge the above picture, you can see that the wire drawing texture of the sink is generally evenly distributed from left to right. This is conducive to the smooth flow of oil, will not hang oil. The four inner corners of the sink are R10 rounded corners, which also determines that the sink will not hide dirt.

② stainless steel sink easy to wipe flowers, scratch characteristics.

Stainless steel sink is easy to make flowers, which is also a common fault of stainless steel products. Of course, products of other materials will have this problem, but the material of stainless steel is relatively more. Some people would say that the most serious problem with stainless steel sinks is rust. I don't refute here, I will talk about it later.

People who have used stainless steel countertops must know that stainless steel is a material that is easily scratched or scratched. Some important things are dragged over and over on the stainless steel countertop. Slight ones may be spent and serious ones may be scratched. Therefore, I have always recommended that the kitchen must use a better stainless steel hand-made sink. Because most of the surface of the manual sink is hand drawing processing. The uniform wire drawing texture of the sink surface and the repairability and recycling of stainless steel are very strong. Even if it's scratched or worse. Also only need to use scouring pad along the texture of the sink to push, serious scratches on a small piece of 240# sandpaper, along the texture of the sink to push, and then use scouring pad to simulate the manual drawing method, can make the stainless steel sink look new.

This is the legendary scouring pad and sandpaper.

The rust problem of stainless steel products.

Stainless steel is called stainless steel, because the surface of the steel adsorption of a layer of antioxidant purification film. This protective film is formed by the stainless steel sheet itself. It is because this film protects the body of the steel, so the material is not easy to rust. But as long as the material will be destroyed, and after the destruction is not cleaned up in time, there is no time for him to repair himself (re-form the protective film), so it is the cause of stainless steel rust.

Knowledge is not easy to understand, we take the actual life to illustrate.

No one can guarantee you that "stainless steel sink will not rust"! Because everyone's habits and living environment are different. Stainless steel, as a material that is not easy to rust, is also limited by many factors. For example: the coastal areas of humid air, salt content is relatively large, it is easy to corrosion of stainless steel products. Such as frequent contact with salt water, acid water and other corrosive liquids, and did not go to clean in time. For example, when cleaning the stainless steel sink, the surface of the stainless steel sink is wiped vigorously with tools with grinding effect, which destroys the protective film on the surface in a large area, so that the stainless steel itself cannot form a new anti-oxidation film in a short time. For other reasons, the stainless steel sink itself will be corroded and then rusted.

In more detail, everyone need not be scared. Because stainless steel is called stainless steel, it is precisely because he is less prone to rust than other materials. So an authentic SUS304 material stainless steel sink, normal household are not rusty.

But here is a special description of the situation. Many people responded that the house was decorated and bought a stainless steel sink. When they installed it and checked in, they were dumbfounded! It's useless, the sink is rusty! I bought a fake! Then fumed to find the merchant theory. Not all merchants are so professional that they can explain clearly to customers. Therefore, I would like to say a fair word for most conscientious merchants. They are actually quite wronged.

The new house decoration stage is also the stage where the sink is most easily corroded. Because of the dust during decoration, various disinfection elements in the new water pipe, putty powder, gypsum powder and so on in decoration. A lot of messy material all settled in the sink, and no one cleaned it for a long time. Then some fine metal objects on the surface of the sink began to rust and were adsorbed by the purification film on the surface of the stainless steel sink, 1.1. It's like stainless steel rusting.

This we call floating rust. That is, the sink surface debris rust stick in the sink surface, not easy to wipe off. Just like the watermark. The treatment method is also very simple, it can be removed by pushing with the scouring pad mentioned above. In fact, some floating rust, watermark, scratching dirt and so on, a piece of scouring cloth can be removed.

The characteristics of electroplating stainless steel sink.

This question is also added because a friend recently asked me why I don't recommend nano sink. Oil removal, anti-fouling, anti-scratch and so on. Sounds high up. In fact, this kind of sink has been on fire for a short period of time, because it is not favored by people in the industry, so it has almost disappeared recently.

Electroplated stainless steel sink, its processing technology is normal sink after done, and then sent to the electroplating factory for processing. Processing methods include electrolysis, electroplating, dusting, nano and so on. Although there are so many processing methods, the principle and performance are similar. In general, the surface of the stainless steel sink is plated with a layer of film, a thin layer, about 0.2mm thickness. A short time can indeed play a role in degreasing and anti-fouling, but over time, the plating layer will definitely have a series of problems.

The industry is also not optimistic about this process, because the stainless steel itself has the characteristics of anti oil decontamination. Re-plating, the majority of gimmick ingredients. In addition, the electroplating cost is also relatively high. For better electrolysis, the price is 150 yuan per square meter, and a sink needs almost 1.5 square meters. A sink requires an additional cost of more than two hundred yuan. And when we do the test, as long as there is a small scratch on the plating surface, the whole plating layer will slowly peel off. The scene is also not very good. Therefore, a kitchen sink, not only need Yan value, but also need to be practical.

Ceramic sink.

Ceramic sink, as a bathroom washbasin has been developed so far. Although we also have wash basins made of stainless steel, the order quantity is very small, so it is not included.

In the mainstream market of bathroom washbasin, ceramic sink is still very heavy.