{"product_id":"12mm-moonshine-solid-surface-sheet","title":"12mm Moonshine Solid Surface Sheet","description":"\u003ch2\u003e12mm Moonshine Solid Surface Sheet\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSheet size: 3660mm x 760mm x 12mm. Supplied as a full sheet.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSolid surface is a cast composite sheet, not a laminate or a coated board. It is made by blending pure acrylic (PMMA) resin with aluminium trihydrate, a mineral filler refined from bauxite, then curing the two together into a single homogeneous slab. Because the sheet is the same material all the way through, the colour and pattern do not stop at the surface. That is the difference from every decorative board: there is no thin printed layer to wear off, no substrate to swell when water reaches it, and no visible line where two pieces meet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree practical consequences follow. Scratches, scuffs and burns are abraded out and the surface refinished in place rather than replaced. The cured composite is non-porous, so liquids cannot soak in, nothing needs sealing and bacteria have no pore structure to colonise. And because the body of the sheet matches its face, two pieces bonded with colour matched adhesive and sanded flat read as one continuous surface with no shadow line and no gap to trap dirt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe decor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoonshine (DM5075) is the warm one. The field is a soft off-white with a cream cast rather than a cool blue-white, and drawn across it are fine gold-toned veins, delicate and linear, with faint tonal drifts moving beneath them. It has the warmth and the gold thread that people are usually looking for when they ask for a marble effect, but at a scale that stays elegant rather than assertive.\u003cbr\u003eThe cream base is what sets it apart from everything else in the range. A cool white surface can look stark against timber, brass or warm-painted cabinetry, whereas a cream field sits with those materials naturally. If your scheme has oak or walnut joinery, brushed brass ironmongery, warm stone flooring or a warm neutral palette on the walls, this is the decor in the range designed to meet it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGold veining without the edge constraint\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the practical reason to choose Moonshine over the other gold-veined option, and it is worth understanding because it affects fabrication cost. Fire Cloud, the range's bolder amber-veined decor, carries the manufacturer's pearl designation: the pearl material sits in the top surface only, so every visible edge has to be mitred or heavily rebated to avoid exposing a section without pearl in it. That is a legitimate detail, but it takes longer to fabricate and it rules out coved upstands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoonshine carries no such designation. The pattern runs through the full thickness in the ordinary way, so a square edge, a simple rebate, a built-up edge or a coved upstand are all straightforward. You get warm gold veining with none of the edge restrictions, which on a job with a lot of edge detail or a run of upstands is a real saving in labour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWorking with a fine vein\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe veining here is delicate rather than dominant, which makes it forgiving to fabricate but introduces a different consideration. Because the vein is fine and linear, joints are relatively easy: there is no large-scale feature that has to meet precisely across a seam, and the tonal drifts help disguise the line. But over much of its area the sheet reads close to a plain cream, so an uneven sheen at a joint has nowhere to hide, exactly as it would not on a plain colour. Take the sanding sequence right through to 400 grit and work the finish out across a wide area rather than stopping at\u003cbr\u003ethe seam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe vein position and density also vary between sheets, as they do on any veined decor. If a job needs more than one sheet and the pieces will sit in the same sightline, order them together from the same batch rather than returning for a second sheet later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA pale decor is the low maintenance choice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorth saying plainly, because most people assume the opposite of a pale worktop. The heavily pigmented dark decors in this range show dust, haziness and fine scratching so readily that the manufacturer advises against them for the heaviest horizontal use and excludes ordinary wear from the warranty. A warm off-white like Moonshine carries no such restriction, the light scratch pattern that any worktop picks up barely registers against it, and the veining gives the eye enough to look at that it disguises marking better than a flat unfilled cream would. When it does eventually need attention, the surface is abraded back and refinished rather than replaced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Group E price\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoonshine sits in Group E, the top price band covering the pattern-led decors. Carrying a defined vein consistently through a cast sheet is more involved than casting a flat colour. Technical performance, jointing method and the ten year warranty are identical to every other decor in the range.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWorking with the sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoonshine is jointed with ColorSeam Simply White, the methyl methacrylate adhesive matched to this decor. Glue the joint, remove the surplus, then sand through a progressive grit sequence from 120 up to 400 to bring both pieces to one plane and one finish. The adhesive is low-VOC and GREENGUARD Gold certified, which is worth knowing on projects chasing indoor air quality credits.\u003cbr\u003eThe sheet is 12mm, the standard worktop thickness for the material. A heavier edge is built up by bonding a second strip of the same sheet beneath the front edge and jointing it invisibly, so a 12mm sheet presents as a 40mm or 60mm edge at a fraction of the weight and cost of solid material throughout. The material also thermoforms: heated evenly to forming temperature and worked over a jig it takes curves, coved upstands and waterfall island ends, then holds the shape as it cools on the jig under restraint. A formed waterfall end with the gold veining carrying uninterrupted over the curve is an effect no stone slab can produce, because a stone waterfall is always two pieces mitred together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCoverage\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne sheet covers 2.78 square metres. A standard 600mm deep run therefore yields just over six linear metres of worktop before allowances for cut-outs and edge build-up, so most single-run kitchens are a one or two sheet job.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProperty: Value | Decor: Moonshine | Decor code: DM5075 | Series: DM5 | Jointing adhesive match: ColorSeam Simply White | Material: Pure acrylic (PMMA) resin with aluminium trihydrate (ATH) mineral filler | Sheet size: 3,660 x 760 | Thickness: 12 | Coverage per sheet: 2.78 | Colour through thickness: Yes, homogeneous | Character: Warm off-white with fine gold-toned veining | Fabrication notes: No manufacturer disclaimer code applied to this decor. No pearl or edge restriction | Thermoformable: Yes | Repairable and refinishable: Yes | Density: 1.729 | Flexural strength: 69.6 (10,100 psi) | Flexural modulus: 9,887 (1,434,000 psi) | Tensile strength: 45.9 | Tensile modulus: 9,890 | Elongation at break: 0.50 | Barcol hardness: 67 | Heat deflection temperature: 111.7 | Coefficient of thermal expansion: 3.49 x 10 -5 | Water absorption: 0.10 | Boiling water resistance: No effect | High temperature resistance: No effect | Thermal shock resistance: Pass, no cracking, crazing, blistering or spalling | Reaction to fire: B-s1, d0 | Surface burning: Class A (FSI 15, SDI 10) | Cigarette test: Pass | Stain resistance: Pass | Chemical resistance: Pass | Colour fastness: Pass | Light resistance (xenon arc): No effect | Fungal resistance: Does not support microbial growth | Bacterial resistance: Does not support bacterial growth | Food contact: Certified | Indoor air quality: GREENGUARD and GREENGUARD Gold certified | Warranty: 10 years against manufacturing defect\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Forge Finishes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67883651236039,"sku":"Moonshine","price":906.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0797\/2752\/6087\/files\/800x800px_1_2.webp?v=1791753611","url":"https:\/\/www.forge-finishes.com\/products\/12mm-moonshine-solid-surface-sheet","provider":"Forge-Finishes","version":"1.0","type":"link"}