Marble & Natural Stone Tile Installation

Marble and quartzite turn a shower, an entry or a feature wall into the part of the house people remember. They also behave differently from porcelain: natural stone is heavier, it can be stained by the wrong setting material, and it needs a stiffer floor to avoid cracking.

We install marble and natural stone tile on shower walls, floors, entries and feature walls across Greater Atlanta, with the vein layout planned before the first piece is set.

What natural stone needs that porcelain does not

Floors under natural stone have to be about twice as stiff as floors under porcelain: tile industry guidelines call for a deflection limit of L/720 instead of L/360. On a wood-framed floor that often means reinforcing the subfloor, and skipping it is a common reason marble floors crack.

Light marble can also stain from grey thin-set or absorb moisture from below, so it is set with stone-specific mortar and sealed once installed. And because no two pieces are alike, we lay out the veining in advance, book-matching where the design calls for it, so a wall or floor reads as one continuous piece of stone.