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Behind the scenes, stainless steel is popular in commercial food preparation areas, but what do you do when your kitchen or bar is on display? Whether you’re designing a hotel bar, a dessert counter in a restaurant or food preparation areas in a small lunch place, if the customer can see your worktops they need to look good. Advantages of stone worktops Marble and granite worktops are popular in the domestic market because they are beautiful and durable – traits which also make them suitable for commercial use. There are […]

Lacking the historic glamour of marble, the high fashion buzz of granite and the high tech vibe of engineered stone, limestone isn’t on a lot of peoples’ radars when it comes to choosing stone. At Surrey Marble and Granite, we think this is a real shame as limestone is a great choice for many situations, from kitchen worktops to bathroom tiles. Below you’ll find a few of the reasons we love it for another unsung area of the home – flooring. Yes, limestone flooring is a great choice and here’s […]

This week I have been mostly looking at Roman Aqueducts. The first, the Aqua Appia was built in 312 BC to provide the populace of Rome up to 75,537 cubic meters of water per day. The amazing thing about this structure is that the majority of it’s length was subterranean and dropped only 10m throughout it’s entirety. Aqueducts move water through gravity alone and the Aqua Appia, built from stone, brick and the special volcanic element pozzuolona also afforded itself protection by it’s underground construction. During the Samnite wars, the […]