12mm quartz worktop?

[Littlepicklehead]

Does anyone have a 12mm worktop in quartz?

I'd like to have a silestone worktop in my new kitchen as want something pure white, but baulking slightly at the cost. Wondering if having a 12mm worktop might help keep the cost down but I'm wondering if a top this thin would only really work with a modern style kitchen (eg handle less)

I'm leaning towards shaker style white doors so perhaps it would look odd with such a thin surface?

Anyone have this or any opinions on what this will look like?

I've been investigating quartz recently. The suppliers told me 30mm for kitchens, 20mm for bathrooms.
12mm sounds a bit fragile, for the overhang.

We've just had a 20mm pure white quartz worktop installed and it looks amazing, that is in a white handleless very modern matt white kitchen though. We did a LOT of shopping around, probably got 15 different samples of different quartzes and spoke to many companies, and by going back and forth between our favourites we managed to shave quite a lot of money off the original quotes, we probably ended up paying less than two thirds.

We'd started off looking at Caesarstone and Silestone but found much better prices and just a good a product with different brand names - we ended up with Samsung Radianz in Diamond White through a company called Roann, they've been fantastic from beginning to end and we love the end result.

I'm not sure I'd go any thinner than 20mm unless it was a really high end very modern kitchen where sleekness is everything. It also affects things like overhangs on islands etc.

I was told that you couldn't have drainage grooves cut in a worktop that thin. Which is a deal breaker for me.

al long as you realise that pure white will show EVERY little coffee stain etc etc ...

12mm is fine proovided that the cabinets support the worktop properly, especially on units wider than 60cm. Drainer grooves a non starter.

However, cost wise the savings are limited. Fabrication and template/fit costs remain unchanged and the material isnt 40% cheaper than 20mm worktops so cost is the wrong reason to buy it.

Pure white will show spills and crumbs but its no worse for staining than any other quartz colour.