The Process The journey that your granite countertop takes to get to your kitchen and bath is a very long and labor intensive road. This page will give you an idea of the many steps that are required to transform a deposit of stone in the earth to a stunning countertop in your home. From the Quarry to your Kitchen |
Large blocks of granite are quarried from deep in the ground or from the side of
a mountain. These quarries are located all over the world in countries such
as India, Brazil, China, Norway, Saudi Arabia and Finland. We import our
stone directly from these countries. |
Dynamite and huge diamond saws are used to cut the blocks from the quarry.
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Blocks are transported from the quarry to the factory by truck or rail. Some
blocks weigh as much as 25 tons! |
At the processing factories, blocks are cut into slabs in this huge diamond saw,
much like a giant bread slicer. It can take an entire day to cut one block. |
Here is the block cut into slabs. A Block will yield approximately 45 to 50
- 1-1/4" slabs. |
Each slab is then sanded, polished and resined to bring out its unique color and
pattern. Resining the slab helps to fill small natural pits and fissures
in the slab and helps give the slab a smooth, mirror-like finish. Resining
also helps make the slab less porous. Finished slabs are then packaged
and shipped in shipping containers by ocean, rail and truck to our warehouse in
Nashville. |
Once the slabs arrive in our warehouse in Nashville, we carefully inspect each slab
before putting them on display in our slab warehouse. Customers will
come by our indoor warehouse of granite slabs to pick out their stone.
We have over $1,000,000 of granite slab inventory in stock from all around the
world for you to choose from. |
A Wholesale Granite Warehouse salesperson will help you pick out the perfect stone
for your project and will help to estimate your project. |
A Wholesale Granite Warehouse templater will come to your home to template your countertops.
We template all our countertops using state-of-the-art digital
templating machines that are faster and much more accurate than traditional templating
by hand. |
Templates are then cut on our plotter and the customer is encouraged to come in and
layout the templates on the slabs to let us know their preferences. This
is important to gauge color and vein matching. |
After cutting and shaping your countertop using our state-of-the-art machinery, your
countertop is hand finished and double checked to make sure all parts look
great and fit perfectly. |
Your countertop is then installed in your kitchen or bath by our skilled installers
transforming your countertops into a one-of-a-kind "work of art"! |
The Selection and Fabrication Process |
