Granite has been going strong for the past decade as a counter material and has now become so common that it’s nearly standard in many communities. As with all home finishes, that means it’s surely near the end of its run as a material of choice and thus I can’t understand why people still install it. Sure it’s decent now, but what about in five or ten years? It will have gone the way of travertine and shiny brass fixtures.

Anyway, if remodeling your home with material that is no longer “cool” isn’t reason enough to look elsewhere, how about the new reports of granite containing cancer causing radon? Most granite is probably perfectly safe, but new versions from exotic locales are showing up with exceedingly high levels of the nasty stuff. One woman found her counters to contain 25 times the amount of radon considered safe by the EPA.

Story from the New York Times

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