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Had a new kitchen and bathroom installed last year. Most surfaces (kitchen counter, shower and general bath room) all Dekton or one of Cosentino’s other lines.

I was apprehensive: it is expensive and “not real stone”.

Super happy with it. Spilling red wine, putting sizzling hot pans on it, accidentally dropping big pans on it. Dekton brushes it off.

Go into debt if you have to.

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"Go into debt" seems like a terrible idea compared to just making due what's already there. My kid puts rocks on the counter. The old laminate doesn't shrug it off, but I sure do.

If it's not an investment, don't go into debt. And a premium finish is not an investment, unfortunately. If you sell soon, you won't recover the cost. And if you sell down the line, it will be out of fashion regardless of how well it physically held up.

By all means splurge on yourself if that's what you want! Just don't justify it by framing it as an investment that you should be taking on debt for.

I'm pretty sure it was just a joke on GP's part.

Sure, I'm all for jokes. I personally think HN needs more jokes. Jokes play on and reinforce social values though, which is what I am critiquing.

> shower and general bath room)...Spilling red wine, putting sizzling hot pans on it, accidentally dropping big pans on it.

You're either using your bathroom wrong, or have a vastly more interesting sex life than I do.

(Yeah, I missed the kitchen counter on first reading)

"Dropping big pans on it" is actually the weak point of Dekton. If you hit it hard it can chip away. Otherwise, the material is more or less indestructible.

Exactly why we changed it to natural stone at the last minute. Otherwise Dekton seemed pretty awesome. But we needed something literally indestructible, even if its thicker than Dekton ;)

Our Dekton countertops are great, although we have managed to put a tiny chip in it - I think it was dropping a small glass jar from about 3-4 feet up?

The reason we went for it because it appears to be the only way to get a light-colored stone countertop that won't stain when you spill red wine or tomato sauce on it. It has been excellent, hasn't picked up any stains at all.

Slate countertops are excellent for stain and heat resistance.

Considering how much she paid for it, my jaw dropped when my mom first scolded me for putting a hot pan directly on her brand new quartz counter top. I'll take my cheap (probably fake) granite any day over such a useless counter. Like your Dekton, it just brushes everything off.

On general principle I’ll probably put some sort of pad down. Likely unnecessary but it takes 10 seconds.

I wouldn't go in debt but I'd pay the premium again, we're really happy with our countertops, especially considering that it allowed us to make them thinner which my wife wanted seemed to be a big no-no with other materials.

I can see how thinness is a benefit for induction heating, but how does it benefit a regular countertop?

Not really, we did consider one of those fancy new induction systems that goes through the countertop but there were too many limitations (ie. there had to be a cut in the countertop which was a deal breaker for my wife).

The reason for the thinner countertop was merely preference, she wanted it that way and I wanted her to be happy.

Fortunately when I had to have my kitchen redone after a fire my brother already had it in his kitchen(s?). Which gave both me and my designer confidence that I would like it at scale that she was a bit nervous about.

investor?

No. Genuinely happy customer. Not everything is a psyop.

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