Phoenix Stone & Laminate

Phoenix Stone & Laminate specializes in the fabrication and installation of custom stone countertops. We are a small, family-oriented company that believes in the importance of doing things right the first time. Ruben and Annie have been working together since early 2009, co-managing a successful countertop fabrication shop in the Austin area.

Manufactured Quartz is an engineered stone. Fashioned from a mixture of crushed quartz and other various resin and bonding materials, quartz is a non-porous surface that resists scratches and is easy to maintain. It requires none of the annual sealing that is needed to extend the life of a natural stone product like granite or marble.

This is the very question that has been plaguing our industry these days. The scientific definition of quartzite is a metamorphic rock made almost entirely of the mineral Quartz. Its geologic cycle starts from simple grains of sand, compressed over time to create sandstone. The sandstone then gets compressed and heated again causing the sand grains to fuse together forming the durable rock we call quartzite.

The geologic definition of marble is a metamorphic rock predominately consisting of fine- to coarse-grained, recrystallized calcite and/or dolomite. It has a texture of relatively uniform crystals ranging from very large (inches) to very fine, small, uniform-sized crystals.