How to Make Granite Counter Tops

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Hey everyone, have you ever wondered how granite counter tops are made? Well i can show you! If you didn't already know, I am a Granite Fabricator at Carpet One Floor and Home. I work on stone and other counter top materials every day! I do love my job , I get to be creative and hands on, this can be a challenge but can also very satisfying.

There are 3 common materials i work on, Quartz (man made) , Granite , and Marble. There is also natural Quartzite but it is much less common. They all Fabricate about the same, I use basically the same tools on all 3 with the exception of the polishing pads. Everything i use for cutting and polishing has bits of diamonds in them, the more aggressive pads have larger amounts in order to remove more material. In this video i will be working on a piece of Granite for a customer and showing you all the tools i use to go from a scrap piece to a finished product. Due to the length of each step i broke the video down to small snippets of what goes into each one. I recorded this on my phone and it might be a little blurry. I wasn't planning on making a video when i went to work that day but this was the perfect job to record for the blog.

 I have tried to learn everything i can about counter tops and the different ways people make them. I have seen shops that use CNC machines to do all the work, this is good for mass production but a person is still needed to finish the polish and do any small detail or repair work. I take a lot of pride in my work and am always looking to be the best.  I could talk about Granite and Counter Tops all day and I try to educate customers on the difference of poor and high end fabrication. Take these next to Clips as an example.

 The one on top was done by another Granite Shop in town, it is a bevel edge on Santa Cecelia Granite . The one on the bottom is a bevel edge on Santa Cecelia Granite that I worked on. They are both the same profile on the same stone but the quality of work is very different, which one would you want to be paying for?

You can really see the difference in how the edge looks. The left one is wavy and dull while the one on the right is flat and shiny. This is the most obvious way to tell what kind of fabricator you are getting. It isn't always that they don't know how to make it look better but that it isn't cost effective for them to put the time to make it the right way. That is a huge reason i like working where i do, they put the quality of their product above quantity. 

If you have any questions about counter tops let me know, I can most likely answer whatever you need and if i cant i will find an answer and get it for you. If you need any work done message me and i will get in touch, I can do repair work or small jobs if you are Interested.