If you look for "A" grade Calacatta Mrable - You'll find it - regardless if it's at WZ or other places. Here's the thing about WZ - They have been around for a long time, and they have a reputation among designers as being a source for top quality product. They have the reputation among us Fabricators as taking a normal stone like Giallo Veneziano as an example - and CHANGING the name to something else and then - JACKING UP the PRICE by up to DOUBLE the going rate.... THIS is why WZ does not always hand out samples willy nilly, and they're not so willing to show Fabricators what the stone looks like - because those of us that have learned our lesson (Mine was on a PF Chang's that I did- that was using "Paladio" around 15 years ago)... We'll find the same stone at the "regular" rate and use THAT.... So the moral of this little story is - DO YOUR RESEARCH - Find a really good guy that's been in the business MORE than 5 years, and view the ACTUAL SLABS that will be used for YOUR project - FORGET the "Builder's Depot" and those big box stores that want you to "Just shut the "F" up and pay" !!! You deserve better....!!! YOU are the one that's going to LIVE with the stone - so make sure that you LOVE what's going in your home - DON'T JUST "SETTLE" !!!! my .02 cents worth from 32 years "in the business".... hth kevin

I had pretty much the exact same experience as designnov. The samples were beautiful. The marble in the order, supposedly from the exact same set of marble, wasn't quite as nice. Not so bad I quite felt like I could complain, since after all, marble is a natural product and you can't expect every tile to be exactly the same, but still. Let's put it this way, if, in fact the samples really are from the same batch or run or whatever it's called as the stuff they send, then I think they go through pretty carefully and pull the prettiest to use as samples. I agree that ordering, shipping and any other dealings with the company went just fine. So I have 2 bathroom floors that are ok and very reasonably priced, just not quite as nice as I was hoping. I will say that the quality difference is much more noticeable in the bathroom where I did big 12x12 tiles than in the bathroom where I have much smaller tiles in a herringbone pattern.

My experience: The Builder Depot can work out great if you're willing to put in a lot of time and buy a lot of extra tile (knowing it's still a good price compared to other options). There WERE significant variations in size of the 3x6 venato tiles we got (1/8" difference), and there were a lot of tiles that were yellow/brownish or otherwise not great. However, I would do it again, with a plan to 1. measure every single tile, or at the very least measure several tiles from each box and stack them to make sure there are no big/small ones, and 2. lay out the tile from all of the boxes, pick out the ones you don't like, and MIX them so the installer isn't using tile from one box at a time. It will take many hours, but the end result is worth it.

I got honed marble subway, 6x6's and pencil tile from them. Very easy to deal with, packaged well(1 broke tile in 400sq ft)and the quality seemed very nice. Had no problems with it on installation and I'm a year into with no problems. hth