Specification
Choosing a Finish: Polished, Honed, Leathered, Flamed
Finish changes colour, slip resistance, maintenance and how visible a scratch will be. It is a functional decision that happens to look like a style one.
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Insights
Technical notes, not marketing
What we would tell you on a call: how stone actually behaves, what to ask before ordering, and the decisions that are expensive to get wrong.
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More from the workshop
Projects
Specifying Cut-to-Size Without Surprises
Cut-to-size removes site cutting and waste — but only if the drawing, the tolerance and the setting-out plan are agreed before a single block is sawn.
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Materials
Marble, Granite or Quartzite for a Worktop
Three stones that look interchangeable in a showroom and behave completely differently in a working kitchen.
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Aftercare
Sealing and Aftercare, Explained Properly
What a sealer does, what it cannot do, and the short list of products that quietly destroy stone surfaces.
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Global Supply
Importing Stone: What Buyers Should Ask Before Ordering
The questions that separate a shipment which arrives intact and documented from one that becomes a claim.
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