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Dean's Story:
I have been installing and doing outdoor design for many years, specializing in Stone Masonry/ Outdoor Design. I was the co-host of two DIY/HGTV Network shows "Rock Solid" and "Indoors Out" for seven seasons along with doing outdoor design for the PBS Television show "Victory Garden". I along with my cousin Derek Stearns have done many Trade Show appearances and develop content for web-sites and promotions including "The World Of Concrete". I'm very passionate about teaching my trade to the next generation along with helping homeowners and de-signers make the right choices in design, products, and instillation. My home base is Plymouth Ouarries located in Hingham, MA. My cousin and I run the marketing, sales, and new product development. PO is still a working quarry that quarries Weymouth Granite. The stone that has built and continues to build Yale, Boston College,
University Of Michigan Law, and countless projects around the country. We are also one of the top suppliers in Southern New England with exclusives on products no one else has .
hat is the one
material that has Welcome to the world of Thin Stone Veneer. Are you stone masons out there
been consistent for excited yet? Well you should be.
thousands of years
Thin stone veneer has become the
Derek and I have been doing this in buildings around the globe? major player in the masonry world,
work for many years, and though we The answer is stone. If you said and its here to stay. For those of
don't like to admit it, it does take a sand then I think we are definitely you who aren't familiar with this toll on our bodies. The most time�product, it is real stone cut to an
not on the same page. consuming projects for us are those approximately one inch thickness,
full bed jobs where we have to shape
Stone has been quarried for
and most have full-size corner pieces.
and split each stone with our stonemillennia and shaped by stone
Thin stone veneer, also known as an
hammer, carbide chisels, and a pintmasons who have passed down their
Adhered Veneer, may be used in any
of blood. The blood comes into playtrade from generation to generation.
application full bed veneer would
when your fingers always seem toThe process of how we quarry, the
be used. Unlike full bed though, thin
find a way to catch a corner of thetools we use, and the machines that
stone veneer weighs no more than 15
stone you are cutting. I know what
move the stone have changed over
pounds per square foot, as opposed
you are saying our there "just wear
time, but the stone hasn't changed
to full bed veneer, which could weigh
gloves." We hate wearing gloves; itmuch until now.
over 50 pounds per square foot.
just doesn't feel right.
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