Where can I buy a marble slab?

[Kerry Beal]

I use granite all the time - I often get sink cut outs for free from a couple of the counter places around.

[Raoul Duke]

The radiation and/or radon levels won't bother you if you wear your pyramid shaped tin foil hat.

[coz]

http://www.broadwaypanhandler.com/broadway/product.asp?s%5Fid=0&pf%5Fid=marble%5Fpastryboard

[Crouton]

I dont think my fridge's shelf has the structural integrity to support the weight of my granite sink cut out. It weighs at least 65lbs. Carting that thing around the kitchen? Definitely not.

[torso]

So... granite is fine if I can't find marble?

I think so. Once I got granite countertops (which I did not seal or put any sort of chemicals on) I just worked straight on the counter. So easy. I think granite is less porous than marble?

Granite usually isn't porous, but sometimes it is. Not sure if it's just different composition, or if it is the polishing.

[OliverB]

we're doing a remodel and just got a nice piece of marble in the new bathroom and more to come. We bought a whole slab and I'll see that I get the rests finished for kitchen use. Sink cutouts maybe cut round or oval and used as cheese boards etc, and what's left as rectangular I'll have cut to fit my counter in the kitchen.

At the marble place they hat lots of endpieces and broken slabs for cheap and as mentioned above, the cutting places probably have lots they don't need, should be easy to find a nice piece.

[Darienne]

I know very little about marble and have been lucky to have been gifted with two pieces of marble, the second one DH built into a wonderful rolling kitchen table for me. Both pieces are fairly impervious to wear and tear. Oh yes, chocolate in exchange for both.

This past weekend I learned that apparently there is a vast difference in marble from Georgia (good) and Colorado (not good). A friend bought a beautiful marble piece of Colorado marble for a table top and it scratches very easily. I know...I accidentally scratched it myself. She says...make certain if you buy a table top, that it's marble from Georgia.

Anyone know anything more about this?

[andiesenji]

I know very little about marble and have been lucky to have been gifted with two pieces of marble, the second one DH built into a wonderful rolling kitchen table for me. Both pieces are fairly impervious to wear and tear. Oh yes, chocolate in exchange for both.

This past weekend I learned that apparently there is a vast difference in marble from Georgia (good) and Colorado (not good). A friend bought a beautiful marble piece of Colorado marble for a table top and it scratches very easily. I know...I accidentally scratched it myself. She says...make certain if you buy a table top, that it's marble from Georgia.

Anyone know anything more about this?

It's funny you should mention this. A few days ago I came across a Christmas card sent to me by a friend who passed away several years ago.

He was a sculptor and worked mostly in the beautiful Madoc marble that is quarried near Niagara, Canada. He worked for a monument company and carved designs for tombs, vaults and the occasional angel or other religious piece. For his own amusement he carved animals, dogs, horses, sea mammals.

The marble slab in my kitchen came from Vermont. On the unpolished underside there is a stamp that identifies it as a "natural product of Vermont."