Collins Tile and Stone

 

Collins Tile and Stone pretty much consists of two massive warehouses completely filled with huge slabs of granite. It was awesome to see because I had never really seen granite at this this state, really only on someones counter top.

 

There are some pictures of the slabs of granite and marble they have in house ready to be cut to size for whatever project. There is pretty much every color you could ever think of including pink and green and this one that had tons of crazy colors, almost like a rainbow. I thought it was really awesome that those colors are actually made in nature.

 

They have so much stone they have to keep some outside too!

 

We got a chance to enter the warehouse where they polish all the granite and cut it to shape and make the edges how the customer wants it. It was extremely loud in here and almost impossible to hear the man talking. There was also about 3 in. of water covering the whole floor because you have to have a wet saw to cut stone and then it has to contine to be wet to  polish it

 

here is some of the projects they have been working on that are already cut

 

this man is polishing the stone. He has to wear a waterproof jumpsuit to make sure he doesnt get soaked

 

these two machines are used for cutting the marble to whatever shape needed

 here is a picture of another man polishing the stone in his waterproof jumpsuit, I don't think he was happy that I was taking pictures, oops!