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HELP! Found granite slab

14 years ago

Hello all,

My husband and I were driving around our new neighborhood (we just bought our house a month ago) and noticed a whole bunch of granite and marble slabs behind the barn of an old farm house. We asked our neighbor about it and he said that the gentleman who owns the place passed away a few years ago and his kids that live in Florida have yet to do anything about it. Our neighbor said that he's a family friend of theirs and figures they would just let us take our pick.

So, here's my question... after we pick our slabs, then what? How do we get someone to do a template for us, pick up the slabs, cut them, deliver them and install them? Any idea what the cost would be?

Thanks much gang!

Comments (6)

morgne
14 years ago
Wow. We totally need pictures and measurements of the slabs! Do they have enough of any one kind to do your whole kitchen?
live_wire_oak
14 years ago
The of the money in granite countertops is mostly in the fabrication. Fabricators generally don't like to work with slabs that they don't have some input into picking. There can be issues of quality that they have to deal with that they wouldn't have had if they had a hand in sending you to a specific slab yard. Which is to say that if you can find someone to fabricate these slabs for you, it may turn out that they were on the scrap heap for a reason. Or, it could turn out that you've struck gold! The only way to know is to find a local stone fabricator. STart with the Yellow Pages and look under Granite or Stone. Don't be surprised to learn that even with the slabs there free that it will still cost thousands to have them fabricated. Stone itself can run $10 a square foot and the other $60 is for the labor of transporting/fabricating.
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On a positivie note, the fabricator did learn from my experience and said they would show the customer the layout (either by photo or in person) before cutting in the future. Lucky them! Thanks again everyone for your input. Nice to have this board for third party opinions. Friends aren't always honest. I will try come on here more often now to reciprocate. Lucky us, now we are having another issue that will make me forget about the granite issue, with our busy crown molding, it isn't working due to different ceiling heights throughout kitchen, like 3/4 to 1.5" in some areas! The worst area due to a lower board sistering joist holding toilet pipe between floors (opened the ceiling). Never noticed before because cabinets didn't go all the way up... And now will have to try a simpler crown molding that won't look like accordion in some areas due to height differences, or no crown molding on the high cabinets, ooh.... So looks like we won't be getting kitchen back for a while longer, as we have to raise the sheet rock about 3/4" (that's all we got) in that one area. Now I know more questions to ask if I do another reno job before hiring a contractor. Like, will they measure the room from floor to ceiling for oddities to plan for surprises? Shouldn't that be a norm?
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azwildcats70
Original Author
14 years ago
If the weather holds out, I will go over this weekend and take some pictures. The slabs seem relatively large. We want to do a dark honed granite on the perimeter and a white/grey marble look alike in granite.

Live_Wire: that's what I suspected. Something that's too good to be true... usually is.
steff_1
14 years ago
You can also try Craigslist and find a fabricator willing to take a risk. You wouldn't have the recommendation of the supplier, but if you're really not out any money for the granite it might be worth a try.
firstmmo
14 years ago
Yeah, I'd say give it a try, call a few fabricators, see if they can go out and load them onto their trucks and take them back to their fabrication plants....could be worth it!
graniteguy
14 years ago
sounds like a great find. Our shop wouldn't touch it! The quality of the stone is unknown and can't always be determined by a visual inspecton. There are alot of variables here. I would proceed with caution in this endevor, chances are you can find a fabricator to take this on but I can't imagine any fabricator issuing any type of warranty or being able to match up with anything else. Or shop rate for piece work is 125.00 per hour and that is with stone we know. I'll be following this one!

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