What Are the Pros and Cons of Porcelain Countertops?
The big win is heat and UV resistance. The catch is chipped edges.
Porcelain won’t stain and won’t fade in a sunny window. You can set a hot pan straight from the burner onto it. It’s non-porous, so there’s no sealing, ever. Slabs come in large formats, which means fewer seams on a big island.
The downside is the edge. Porcelain is thin, so a mitered corner is where chips start. That’s usually something hard striking it rather than daily wear. Repairs are harder than quartz too. Quartz has resin in it and takes a color-matched fill; porcelain’s pattern often sits on the surface, so an invisible fix isn’t always possible.
Cost runs $90 to $160 per square foot installed. Ask your fabricator how many porcelain jobs they’ve actually cut.
Compare the five porcelain countertops lines we cut. Local slab availability is on porcelain countertops in Atlanta.