’s faced a major dilemma in Sunday night’s episode when they discovered that an item they planned on using in their backyard was ‘illegal’. While the sisters and professional house flippers thought they had lucked out by purchasing engineered stone benchtops within their budget for their outdoor kitchen, they were quickly told that the material is . and site manager Simmo were the ones to deliver the bad news, explaining that the benchtop is made of a banned product that's no longer produced or sold in Australia.
Maddy and Charlotte asked if they could keep the benchtop installed for the next day’s room reveal and replace it later on, however, they were instructed to “get rid of it” right away. “Any product with a high percentage of silica in it has been banned, and this benchtop has like 70% of it in there,” Dan explained in his piece-to-camera interview. “It’s no longer produced, manufactured or shipped into Australia, so I don’t even know how the girls got it here, surprisingly.
” Silica, also known as silicon dioxide, is one of the most abundant minerals found in the earth’s crust. Glass, sand, silicone and granite are all silica materials, and the most common type of crystalline silica is quartz. When products containing silica like stone, rock and manufactured materials are crushed, cut, drilled, sawed or polished, they can generate crystalline silica dust which .
Silicosis is an irreversible and often fatal lung disease causing inflammation a.