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Salt and Pepper

Name: Salt and Pepper Granite CDO: From ₱1,800 per sqm
Price: 1800.00 PHP
Availability: InStock

₱1,800 per sqm

Quarry: China
Surface Finish: Polished
Edges: Natural (Unpolished)
Thickness: 18 mm
Requires Sealing: Yes

Knives land straight on the counter all week, and by Sunday it looks the way it did on Monday. Salt and Pepper resists chips and scratches, the even speckle gives wear nowhere to show, and at ₱1,800 per sqm nothing in our Cagayan de Oro yard costs less.

Quarry	China
Surface Finish	Polished
Edges	Natural (Unpolished)
Thickness	18 mm
Requires Sealing	Yes

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Why Choose Salt and Pepper

The Cheapest Granite in CDO ₱1,800 per sqm is the lowest slab rate on the Cagayan de Oro granite list, which is why it turns up on so many local projects.

Highly Durable Shrugs off chips and scratches, and takes knives, heavy pots and years of daily traffic.

Heat-resistant Set a pan straight off the burner on it. Granite will not scorch or blister the way a resin-bound surface does.

Quarried, Not Manufactured Cut from a single block instead of mixed in a factory, so every slab carries the geology of the ground it came out of.

What Is Salt and Pepper Granite (G603)?

The trade code, the quarry, and why CDO contractors keep defaulting to it.

Salt and Pepper is a light gray granite dusted evenly with black, white and silver specks from one end of the slab to the other. The name describes rather than flatters. Nothing veins, nothing moves, and no part of the surface asks to be looked at first.

That flatness is why specifiers keep coming back to it. The slab reads as background rather than statement, so cabinetry, splashbacks and fixtures sit in front of it without a fight.

What Does G603 Mean?

G603 is the international trade code, the label that follows this stone through quotations, shop drawings and shipping paperwork in every market. The G marks a Chinese quarry designation and the digits identify the particular stone.

The code is worth real money when you are pricing a job. Showroom names drift between suppliers and the code does not, so asking for G603 settles whether two quotes cover the same material.

Where Does Salt and Pepper Granite Come From?

China, from many quarries rather than one. It is pulled at scale across many sites, which is why supply holds steady and lead times rarely slip.

China ranks with India and Brazil among the three biggest granite producers on earth. Blocks are sawn, polished and finished before they leave the country, which is much of the reason the landed cost stays low.

Where Can You Use Salt and Pepper Granite in a CDO Home?

This is the most affordable granite in our Cagayan de Oro range, which is why it appears in commercial fit-outs as readily as in kitchens. These are the jobs we cut it for most often.

Kitchen countertops and islands
Bathroom vanity tops
Lobby and commercial flooring
Wall cladding and window sills
Stair treads and risers

What suits it to work measured in hundreds of square meters is how little one slab argues with the next. Matching becomes a genuine headache with a dramatic granite, and here it seldom does.

What Slab Sizes Are Available?

Slabs land at roughly 0.60 m by 2.40 m to 2.60 m in 18 mm thickness, polished on the face with natural, unpolished edges as delivered. Sizes shift a little from slab to slab, as they do with anything cut out of the ground.

Everything leaves our CDO yard as raw material, cut to your drawings, so nothing arrives ready-made. Tiles exist for flooring, cladding and stair work, though a work surface should always be slab, since grout lines in a counter collect dirt.

How Much Does a Salt and Pepper Granite Countertop Cost in Cagayan de Oro?

Prices are subject to change without prior notice.

Item	Starting Rates
Salt and Pepper slab	₱1,800 per sqm
Fabrication	₱500 per lm
Installation	₱500 per lm
Sink or hob cut-outs	₱500 per set

Cut-out charges apply only where we also handle the installation. Delivery is priced on distance out from our Cagayan de Oro yard, so the figure moves with your address, not the slab. Sites further into Northern Mindanao are quoted the same way, against a longer run.

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How Do You Clean Salt and Pepper Granite?

Three habits that keep a flecked gray counter sharp.

Clean as You Go

Deal with spills when they land, not at the end of the day. The speckle hides crumbs and water marks generously, which is a convenience until something acidic sits there long enough to matter.

Use Only Granite Cleaner

Reach for a pH-balanced granite cleaner, not dishwashing liquid. Soap film builds on a polished face and takes the gloss down by degrees, and it eats the sealer you paid for.

Skip Anything Acidic

Vinegar, calamansi, bleach and scouring pads go after either the polish or the seal beneath it. Once a polished face has been etched, no household remedy brings the shine back.

Granite cleaners formulated for the job sit on the shelf at our CDO yard, so pick one up when you collect the slab, or browse the full stone care range first.

How Do You Care for Salt and Pepper Granite?

Sealing is the one job this stone genuinely asks.

Seal It When It Needs It

Let the counter tell you, not the calendar. Once or twice a year is the usual rhythm and no more than a guide, and the work is quick and cheap enough to count as routine rather than a fault in the stone.

Always Use a Cutting Board

The stone will not scratch easily, but it takes the edge off a knife faster than timber does. A board saves your blades and keeps the polish even in the spot where you always work.

Never Sit or Stand on It

Granite is hard without being flexible, and an unsupported overhang can split under a person’s weight. Concentrated load is the most common damage we are called out to across CDO.

What Finishes Does Salt and Pepper Granite Come In?

Three surfaces, each earning its keep on a different part of a CDO project.

Polished

A reflective gloss that lifts the gray ground and sharpens every speck. This is what kitchen counters and vanity tops are ordinarily supplied in, and it is the finish the rate above covers.

Honed

A matte face with the shine taken off, reading softer and a shade deeper than polished. Water spots disappear on it, though it drinks a little more readily, so keep up with the water test.

Flamed

A coarse, textured face created by running extreme heat across the stone. Flamed G603 is the world standard for paving, cobbles and stair treads, because the roughness keeps its grip when the surface is wet. It is what we specify for outdoor steps.

Is Salt and Pepper Granite Good for Kitchen Countertops?

A strong performer, with one honest caveat.

Yes. Granite handles the working conditions of a kitchen better than nearly anything else you can lay across a base cabinet, and this stone is no exception. Five things decide how it behaves day to day in a kitchen.

A pan lifted straight off the burner will not scorch or discolour the surface, though a trivet is still worth using, because any stone can crack if the temperature change is sudden and extreme.
Blades and daily traffic seldom leave anything visible, because the stone is hard enough that routine kitchen work barely registers.
Crumbs, dust and water spots vanish into the speckle in a way they never do on a solid dark polish.
No two slabs are alike, so the counter in your kitchen is nobody else’s.
Sealing is part of the deal here, unlike the dense blacks, because the mineral structure is more open.

That final point is the honest difference between this stone and Absolute Black or Black Galaxy. Oil, soy sauce, turmeric and red wine can work into an unsealed light granite and leave marks that take effort to lift.

For a household that would rather wipe once a day than three times, the forgiving pattern outweighs the occasional hour spent sealing.

Does Salt and Pepper Granite Need Sealing?

Yes, and fifteen minutes will tell you when.

Yes. Reseal it when it asks, which in most kitchens means once or twice a year, and sooner wherever standing liquid has darkened the surface.

The reason is structural. This granite has a more open mineral arrangement than a dense black such as Absolute Black, so sealer soaks in and does something useful. Left bare, oil and strongly coloured liquids sink instead of sitting on top.

Test it yourself the moment you are unsure. Put a few drops of water on an inconspicuous part of the counter, leave them fifteen minutes, then wipe. If the stone underneath has darkened, the seal has worn through and it is time to reapply.

The job costs little and takes minutes per run of counter. Budget it as ordinary upkeep rather than reading it as a defect, and the stone will work for decades in a CDO kitchen.

Salt and Pepper Granite vs Marble and Quartz

Each material wins somewhere. Here is where.

Choose Salt and Pepper if budget and durability decide it

Nothing on our Cagayan de Oro granite list costs less per square meter, and it still takes heat, shrugs off scratching and survives outdoors. On a large job, or a kitchen where the counter works rather than performs, nothing else gives the same durability for the money.

Choose marble if you want the counter to be the feature

Marble has a depth of figure that granite cannot imitate, and the naturally cool surface is a gift to anyone who bakes. It also etches on contact with calamansi or vinegar, marks more readily and wants sealing more often, so it asks for a more careful owner. Marble is an indent item brought in per order rather than stock held at the CDO yard, and it is quoted per project.

Choose engineered quartz if you never want to seal anything

Engineered quartz is roughly 93% crushed natural stone bound with about 7% resin. It resists staining and never needs sealing, which is the whole appeal. Heat is its weak point, because that resin can scorch under a hot pan, and it yellows under UV, so it is not a material for a lanai.

On outdoor work granite wins outright

Granite is UV-stable and will not yellow or fade in full sun, which is why G603 turns up as paving, cobbles and curbs the world over. Quartz should not go outside at all, and marble weathers unevenly.

What Are the Drawbacks of Salt and Pepper Granite?

Better known before you buy than afterwards.

No stone is without a catch, and this one carries four worth weighing before you order. None is a reason to walk away, but all four are easier to accept in advance.

Sealing is an occasional chore and a small recurring cost that the dense black granites do not saddle you with.
The stone was built to disappear into the background, so anyone hoping the counter will draw the eye will be let down.
Being the default pick for CDO contractors and developers, it reads as builder-grade to some buyers.
The gray ground shifts a little between batches, because G603 comes out of several quarries rather than one.

Only the last one bites on a big job. Flecking stays consistent from shipment to shipment, but pick all your slabs together if the project runs past one delivery from our CDO yard.

What Colours Go With Salt and Pepper Granite?

A true neutral, which makes the rest of a kitchen easy.

There is no warm or cool bias in this stone, so it does not fight whatever you put beside it. That is the practical dividend of a slab with no veining and no dominant tone.

White and light gray cabinetry gives a clean, cohesive result that suits a compact kitchen and keeps it feeling open. The counter steps back and the room reads bigger than its floor area.

Contrast works too: navy, charcoal or black doors turn the gray ground into a bright band between the upper and lower runs, which is what rescues a neutral counter from looking plain.

Timber is the other reliable partner. Oak, walnut and the darker tropical hardwoods sit easily against the gray, with neither element elbowing the other aside.

Fixtures are just as forgiving. Chrome, brushed nickel, stainless and matte black all work, because there is no undertone to accommodate.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is Salt and Pepper granite so cheap?

Three structural reasons, and quality is not one of them. Supply is abundant and quarried at scale, the sailing distance from China is far shorter than the run from India or Brazil, and the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area strips out the tariffs that inflate stone from further afield.

Price in the stone trade follows rarity and logistics, not performance. A rare Brazilian granite costs many times what G603 does in CDO without being one bit better under a hot pan.

Is G603 the same as Salt and Pepper granite?

Yes. G603 is the international trade code and Salt and Pepper is the descriptive name used on the CDO showroom floor. The same material also trades as Padang Light, Crystal Gray and Sesame White depending on the market.

Quote on the code rather than the name. Names vary between suppliers while G603 does not, so it is the only dependable way to confirm two quotations cover identical material.

Does Salt and Pepper granite scratch easily?

No. Granite sits near the top of the hardness range for countertop materials, and an ordinary kitchen knife rarely marks it. The practical risk runs the other way: the stone blunts your blades faster than a timber board.

Use a board to protect the knives, not the counter. Grit dragged across any polished stone will haze it eventually, so wipe rather than scrub when the surface is dusty.

Can you use baking soda on Salt and Pepper granite?

Yes, as a poultice on a stain that has already set. Work baking soda and water into a paste, spread it over the mark, cover it, leave it overnight and wipe it away in the morning.

Do not make it your daily cleaner. Baking soda is mildly abrasive, so repeated scrubbing wears the polish and strips the seal. Routine cleaning wants a pH-balanced stone cleaner.

How do you know when it needs resealing?

Run the water test. A few drops on an inconspicuous patch, fifteen minutes, then wipe. A darker shadow where the water sat means the seal has worn through.

Check the areas that work hardest, which are usually beside the sink and around the hob. Sealer wears unevenly, so one patch failing does not condemn the whole counter.

Can Salt and Pepper granite be used outdoors and on stair treads?

Yes, and it is one of the stone’s strongest applications. Granite is UV-stable, so it holds its colour rather than yellowing or fading, which is why G603 is used internationally for paving, cobbles, curbs and monuments.

Specify a flamed finish for anything underfoot or exposed. The texture keeps its grip when wet, where a polished face turns hazardous.

Compare the three finishes

Is Salt and Pepper granite outdated?

No. It was never a trend material, so it cannot fall out of fashion the way a statement stone can. Neutral gray is about as durable a design decision as a countertop offers, and a kitchen reworked in fifteen years will still be built around it.

What dates a kitchen is the cabinetry and the hardware, not the slab on top of it.

Where can you buy Salt and Pepper granite in Cagayan de Oro?

Stone Depot, at our Cagayan de Oro yard. The slabs are stocked here rather than ordered in, so you can walk the racks, pick the material and see the flecking at arm’s length before anything is cut.

Because this stone gets specified in volume, we can talk through batch consistency and quantity pricing on a bigger job. Our CDO yard is open Monday to Saturday, 8 AM to 5 PM, and you are welcome to message us on Facebook or email email@stonedepot.com to check what is on the floor. It is also worth seeing the rest of the granite range in CDO while you are here.

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