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Presidents’ Day Sale – EXTENDED!

Monday, February 15, 2010

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Our Presidents’ Day Weekend Sale has been extended through 5pm today! We’ll have several great offers and specials running, so please drop by to look! Heidi Breton Schumacher Tile & Stone

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Definition: 1cm, 2cm, 3cm

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

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Slabs of granite, marble, travertine, or quartz come in several thicknesses. We shorten the names from terms like ‘one centimeter’ to 1cm, 2cm, 3cm, 4cm, and 6cm, because it just gets too hard to say ‘centimeter’ over and over. These thicknesses each work best in different situations. Here are a few basic guidelines; but [...]

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Definition: Lamination

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

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Definition: Lamination, lam, lammed edges. When you hear a designer here in at our granite showroom talk about ‘lammed edges,’ they are not referring to sheep of any sort. Instead, this is fabrication slang for lamination, the process of placing two materials immediately against each other in a sheet. For granite, this refers to the process of [...]

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