How good is marble to cut?

[Simons70]

Hi Thanks for all the replies!

Rather than shovelling a dry concrete mix over underfloor heating pipes and screeding it flat by hand, a liquid screed is runny aggregate and chemical liquid screed which is pumped over the pipes and self levels. Supposedly it's stronger, certainly only a fraction of the time to lay.

I didn't plan on coming here to choose stone, I'm in a place called Rajasthan where a lot of marble is quarried and I gues because it's the source it's cheep. It's used here like we use plaster board. I've been into filthy restaurant toilets but they've had marble on the floor and up all the walls. It's mental.

The shipping is about £300 for part of a container which goes by sea. I think you pay for the space rather than the weight.

The bloke selling it has said that he'll cut it up and if any breaks I can have it all for free, so I gues he's pretty confident about it not having loads of fissures in it.

I think I'm going to take a gamble on it!

I have a client who buy for India slabs for 5 bathrooms,is still in Customs from 3 weeks now!
Make sure is right package,not like this:

 

[J Sid]

Didn't know about the sanding, thanks for that.

I recent bought some insulation off EBay from a bloke who had just built a house, quite a big house, and had fitted underfloor heating on he whole ground floor and then had it all tiled, he said it looked great. He got all giddy the day the tiler left and wacked the heating up to like 50 or something, excited about coming into work the next day to a nice warm house.

He said every single tile was cracked. What a nightmare.

you bet he didn't tell the tiler he turned it up that high when it failed to