You pick the actual slab off a real Austin slab floor with 299 lots. The same crew templates, fabricates, and installs it, one crew start to finish.
You pick the actual slab off a real Austin slab floor, then the ATX Granite King crew templates, fabricates, and installs it. One crew, start to finish. A sample chip cannot show movement, veining, pits, or the way color shifts from one end of a sheet to the other. The floor is a direct importer floor with 299 lots standing. That is where the decision belongs.
Read lot numbers and sequence numbers, not just color names. Sequential slabs from one lot usually continue a vein. Random slabs with the same name often do not. Lighting on the floor is not kitchen lighting. Tilt the sheet, step back, and look down its length. Tag the slab you want. Photos of a sister sheet are not the same thing as the sheet that will be cut.
Materials on the floor include granite, quartzite, engineered quartz, marble, dolomite, soapstone, porcelain slabs, and semi precious. For rental grade and flip grade they work with a slab selection and fabrication partner, so a rental does not have to take a showpiece slab. They serve Austin and the I-35 corridor. Call (512) 297-7493 or email info@atxgraniteking.com. Reachable seven days a week. If you want a number, call for a straight quote.
Movement is the broad flow of color. Veining is the lines inside that flow. Quiet granite generally shows short flecks. Marble and quartzite can throw long rivers across a seam or sink. Stand back, then sight down the face. Tag the slab that matches the room, not the crate name. The crew lays cuts on that actual sheet.
Color names do not bind two sheets together. Lot numbers do. Sequence numbers tell you which slabs were neighbors in the block. Neighbors usually share the vein map. If your run needs a seam, tag consecutive slabs from the same lot while both still stand. Once a sequence mate is gone, that match is gone. Do not mix lots and hope the shop blends them.
Warehouse light is high, cool, and flat. A kitchen is not. Walk the slab toward daylight if the yard allows it. Polished faces glare. Honed and leathered faces hide glare and some depth. A chip under a can light will not show a dark slab going lifeless at night or a white slab shifting cream. Look at the actual sheet in more than one light before you tag it.
A slab floor is rows of full sheets on edge, each with a lot number, a thickness, a finish, and a place in a block sequence. You walk it because a chip is too small to tell the truth. Granite is a natural igneous stone that is generally hard and heat tolerant, but porous enough that it usually wants sealing. Quartz is engineered from ground stone and resin, is non porous, needs no sealing, and can be damaged by direct heat and by long UV exposure outdoors. Marble is calcium based and etches from acids like lemon and vinegar regardless of sealing.
Quartzite is metamorphosed sandstone and is very hard, though some slabs sold as quartzite are softer and behave more like marble. Dolomite, soapstone, porcelain slabs, and semi precious sit in the same aisles. The Austin floor ATX Granite King uses is a direct importer floor with 299 lots on the floor. That count is what is standing, not a catalog that stays put. Lots sell. Sequence mates get split. You are choosing a physical sheet with clouds, pits, and color shift from end to end, not a name on a crate.
Picking that sheet is the first half of the job. After the tag, the same crew templates, fabricates, and installs, one crew start to finish. Sink cutout and sink set are included in the fabrication work. They also work with a slab selection and fabrication partner for rental grade and flip grade stone, so a rental does not have to take a showpiece slab. They serve Austin, Pflugerville, Round Rock, Cedar Park, Leander, Georgetown, Hutto, Jarrell, Salado, Belton, Temple, Killeen, Harker Heights, and the I-35 corridor. Call for a straight quote.
You walk the rows with the crew. You look at the face, and at the ends for thickness and for how veins exit an edge, because those edges become the front of a waterfall or the side of an island. Tight short flecks sit quiet. Long diagonal rivers will run across a seam and either line up or they will not. Book matched pairs exist on some lots. They only stay a pair if both slabs are still on the floor and both get tagged to the same job. If one is gone, you do not invent a match from a different lot.
Tagging means that specific slab is held for your job. A photo of a sister slab is not a substitute. A sample chip can come from another lot entirely. If the job needs two or three sheets, you pull them from the same lot in sequence so seams have a chance to continue the vein. After the tag, the crew templates the cabinets in the house. Fabrication follows the template. Layout happens on the actual slab: where the sink hole lands on a vein, where a seam sits, whether a waterfall takes the end of the sheet.
One crew handles that start to finish so the people who saw the stone on the floor are the people who cut it. Sink cutout and sink set are included in the fabrication work. Dates are given in writing with the quote. There is no same day path and no next day path. Stone work waits on the template, on shop time, and on the slab you tagged still being the right call. If you need a number, call (512) 297-7493 for a straight quote. Email info@atxgraniteking.com. They are reachable seven days a week.
A chip is honest about color in a small way and dishonest about scale. Busy movement that looks rich on a four inch sample can feel loud across a long island. Quiet stone that looks dull in the hand can look even and calm on a big run. That is the trade. You accept the full sheet or you pick a different sheet. You do not get the chip look and the slab size at the same time. People who skip the floor and order by chip name find this out after the saw has already cut.
Seams are the next trade. Wide islands and long runs usually need more than one slab. Even sequential lots do not erase the joint. A book match can make a butterfly. It can also make a hard line if polish or thickness differs. Some quartzite sold as quartzite is softer and behaves more like marble, which means etching and wear people did not plan for. Marble etches from lemon and vinegar no matter the sealer. Quartz needs no sealer, then direct heat and long UV outdoors can still mark it. Porcelain slabs are a different body altogether.
Lots sell. The slab you liked on one visit can be gone on the next if you did not tag it. Rental grade and flip grade stone exists through their partner so a rental does not have to take a showpiece. The hard part is honest: rental grade looks like rental grade. Showpiece movement takes more care in layout and will not hide seams. Neither path is wrong. Pretending they are the same path is wrong. If the room is a working kitchen that sees lemon and oil, marble is a poor match no matter how pretty the vein. Call for a straight quote when you know which path you are on.
Stand back first. Movement you only see with your nose on the stone will disappear in a room. Veins you only see from across the aisle will dominate an island. Decide if you want the stone to sit quiet or to be the thing people look at. Then check the edges. A thick vein that dies in the middle of the sheet can leave one side of a seam empty. Ask the crew to mark the cut list in chalk on the face before anyone cuts. That mark is the last honest look you get.
Lighting is next. Look at the slab under the warehouse lamps, then near daylight. White quartz can shift cream. Dark granite can go green or brown when the light warms. Honed marble will show etch marks later. Polished porcelain will show fingerprints. Soapstone will darken with oil and use. Dolomite sits between marble and quartzite in how it lives. None of that is a surprise defect. It is the material. Pick the behavior you can live with, not a photo. Granite generally wants sealing. Quartz generally does not. Marble etches either way.
If two sequential slabs remain, take both when the run needs a seam. If only one slab remains, plan the seams around a different lot or change the layout. Do not force a mismatch and hope fabrication hides it. Fabrication follows the stone. It does not rewrite it. When you are ready, tag the actual slab on the Austin floor. Then call (512) 297-7493 for a straight quote. That call is how a number happens. The crew gives dates in writing with the quote. They do not work from a chip mailed in a box.
Call (512) 297-7493 or email info@atxgraniteking.com. They are reachable seven days a week. Say the city, the rooms, the material family you are considering, and whether this is a house you live in or a rental or a flip. If it is rental grade or flip grade, they point you to the partner path so you are not walking showpiece rows for a job that does not need them. ATX Granite King is in Austin, Texas, and serves Austin and the I-35 corridor. That is the list they post. They do not pretend to cover towns they do not run.
Then you walk the floor. You pick from granite, quartzite, engineered quartz, marble, dolomite, soapstone, porcelain slabs, or semi precious. You read movement and veining, you check lot numbers and sequencing, you look at the sheet in more than one light, and you tag the actual slab. The crew templates, fabricates, and installs, one crew start to finish. Sink cutout and sink set stay inside that fabrication work. Service runs through Pflugerville, Round Rock, Cedar Park, Leander, Georgetown, Hutto, Jarrell, Salado, Belton, Temple, Killeen, and Harker Heights along with Austin.
They give dates in writing with the quote. They do not quote from a chip in an email and they do not quote from a photo of a slab that is no longer on the floor. They quote from the slab you tagged and the template of the cabinets. If you want a number, call for a straight quote. That is how you start. Walk the floor, tag the sheet, get the quote, let the same crew cut and set it. No extra story around it.
$38 per square foot, cut, measure, and install included. Jobs over 1,000 square feet: $30 per square foot.
Sink cutout and sink set are included in the fabrication work. Non standard work is still quoted before work begins. Send the rough square footage and the rooms involved, or call (512) 297-7493 for a straight quote.
A chip tells you a color family. It does not tell you movement, pits, or how a vein runs through a sink cutout. Chips can come from a different lot than the sheets standing today. In most cases you should walk the slab floor and tag the actual sheet. If you cannot get to Austin, the crew can work from photos of specific lot numbered slabs, but that is a weaker read than standing in front of the stone. Once a slab is identified, call for a straight quote.
A color name is a label. A lot number is the block the sheets were cut from. Sequence numbers are the order those sheets came off the block. Sequential slabs from one lot usually share the vein map and give seams a chance to continue. Two slabs with the same name from different lots can miss each other completely. If you need more than one sheet, tag consecutive slabs from the same lot while they are still on the floor. Once a sequence mate sells, that match is gone.
Usually not. Warehouse lamps are high, cool, and even. Kitchens have warm cans, windows, and shadows. White stone can shift cream. Dark stone can go green or brown. Polished faces glare under shop lights and then go quieter at home. That mismatch is a real limitation of buying on a floor. Walk the slab toward daylight if the yard allows it. Bring a warm bulb if you can. Look at the actual sheet in more than one light before you tag it. A chip under a can light will not solve this.
Yes. Sink cutout and sink set are included in the fabrication work. Layout of that cutout still belongs on the actual slab, because a vein that looks fine on the floor can land in a bad place once the hole is cut. Tell the crew the sink model when you template so the hole matches the bowl. The same crew that walked the floor does the cut. If you want a number on the whole job, call (512) 297-7493 for a straight quote.
Marble is calcium based and etches from acids like lemon and vinegar regardless of sealing. That is not a rare case. It is the stone. Sealer does not stop etching. Honed finishes hide some marks and still etch. If that trade is acceptable, tag a marble slab and live with the patina. If it is not, look at granite, quartzite, engineered quartz, or porcelain instead. Some slabs sold as quartzite are softer and behave more like marble, so read the actual sheet, not the name. Call for a straight quote when you know the material.
Tell us the rooms, the rough square footage and what you have in mind for how to choose a slab. You get a number for the whole job, in writing, before anyone cuts anything.