Cost For Slab Of Granite?

daveincincy

I wasn't sure which forum to put this in so let's go with "general."

Does anybody have a "ballpark" figure of what a full slab of 3cm granite costs? I'm actually curious to know wholesale cost, not retail. I realize prices may vary from region to region so I'm just looking for a ballpark estimate. Nothing exotic in color. For this example, let's consider something like Uba Tuba, a popular color that tends to be in the lower end of the price category. I'm not sure what the standard dimensions are for a slab either, but they look to be ~6' x 8' ...if you know for sure, feel free to correct me. It was just my observation when I looked at it.

Feel free to PM me if need be.

Mike Finley

$800.00 give or take.

daveincincy

Thanks, Mike.

kdub1777

Sounds right on to me. The question is, where can we get wholesale granite with no middle man??

bmeyer

You have to own a granite/marble fabrication company to get it wholesale. My step-father's family owns a granite company and it's crazy how little they actually pay for a slab. An $85 / sq. ft. installed price is justifiable though considering all of the tools, machinery, and experience it takes for that industry. Some of the machines run upwards of $200k - $300k each!

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Mike Finley

That's one way to be able to buy it wholesale. Another way is to work with enough fabricators until you find one that will let you purchase it wholesale through them. If you keep looking or find the right one, you might find one that will even store the remnants at their location for you to use on later projects. (read that as meaning - free stone on the second project) When you are doing vanities you can get a lot of free vanities out of a large slab.

bmeyer

Have to love the free vanity tops...that is if you can convince/persuade/steer your customers to use the remnants you have without making it too obvious that it's leftover stone.

Do you do your own fabrication Mike, or do you just pay your sub to do the fabrication/installation and they let you purchase and store the stone through them as a benefit for using them?

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HallisseyDesign

Wow here in Chicago my granite guy has shown me the slips for the granite(bill wholesale). Granite out here for 6'x8' slabs run from 1200 to 60k a slab. Lucky you guys! My granite guy charges me 40 dollars a square foot. But I have done a ton of work at his house tho!

GraniteNJ

I'm a granite installer in new jersey and stone can cost for as little as $5 sqft all the way up to $100 to $1000 sqft for exotic stone and slab range from 48in to 76in tall by 84in to 130in long. but average stone is like 66in X 110in and $10 to $25 on average

buildpinnacle

I just had 85 sf done for a convenience store that I had the fabricators (not a storefront) do for me. I pay $100 over cost on the slab and then they charge me for the fab seperately. My slab cost on this job for ubatuba 2cm (commercial) was around $7/sf. I think I was $22 out the door on the 85 sf polished edge. I paid my granite floor guys extra to set the slabs and cut the necessary holes as they already had the high dollar hole saws, grinders, buffers, etc. All told, I installed this way at about a 50% savings from buying it from a local shop.

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Mike Finley

That's less then 1/2 the market rate out here for acceptable fabrication quality. I've seen some stuff lower than market here, but you can tell as soon as you look at it. - hand polished edges that wave at you when you run your eye down them, slabs that but and one edge thickness is 1/8 inch less then the one it butts too. Horible seams.. etc..

onenia

I buy directly from the yards and get wholesale pricing. In Houston if your licensed they will sell to you for the same cost my fabricators pay.

Manufacturer granite is a good way to save costs when a customer has a regular kitchen with standard 24" base cabinets. The longest counter top they sell is 114"x 26" for $185 to $215 per slab and it comes in the popular colors like Uba Tuba, Absolute Black, Santa Cecilia, etc...

I'm even able to get a stainless double bowl steel sink for $80 ( great throw in to use for Free Sink w/granite special).

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CaseyJones

It all depends on the type of granite and the fabrication involved.
Factors include:
Stone size: Slab is more than tile sized. Generally the larger the granite slab the higher the costs.
Stone Type: Generally the more common types are less expensive
Stone fabrication: Labor and machine time involved.

LetItBeLEED

You probably already know about decorative concrete as an alternative....

SGE&Sons

give or take there are many different variables that come into play but on average for ME it's around $500

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