How to Get Real Stone for Half Price
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February 09, 2007

The look is rich but homeowners who want real stone don’t need to be. A Canadian company makes it affordable.

OAK BAY, BRUNSWICK, CANADA -- It may be one of the best-kept secrets in home building and home makeover: The rich look of real River Rock is within the budget of average homeowners in New England.
River Rock is a heavy naturally rounded stone that adds value to homes. But many consumers and even contractors have no idea it can be affortable.

A Canadian company has developed a way to make River Rock lighter by cutting it in a special way. The process brings out the beauty of the stone, but cuts down on bulk.

The finished product looks as good as River Rock that's uncut. It also drastically reduces the price.

Cut River Rock is not fake or manufactured. It's not an artificial rock. It's real River Rock. Just not as bulky. Yet it's still largely unknown by the public or even contractors.

"Your builder, architect, and carpenter are not going to be very much help finding a stone mason to install Cut River Rock because chances are they have never heard of it," says Tom Mosher of Cutriverock.com, which pioneered the process of cutting River Rock.

The company does the installation and also helps connect homeowners with trained Cut River Rock masons.

Cut River Rock: The Saw
Mosher's company developed a saw that can cut River Rock stone in an economical and efficient way. The company succeeded where others failed.

"What masons often try to do is break the stone with a chisel to get rid of the excessive bulk," Mosher says, "but it is very labor intensive and most of the stone do not break evenly and a good lot of them not at all."

Mosher says Cut River Rock produced by his company maintains all the beauty of expensive whole River Rock and saves time.

"It used to be that to build a full fireplace up through a house with a cathedral ceiling would take a stone mason and his helper most of a summer," says Mosher.

Because it's so much lighter, placing Cut River Rock takes much less time. And that saves homeowners money.

The Cut River Rock Process
The shapes, sizes and colors of Cut River Rock are not come upon easily.

Each stone is hand picked off the belt from a huge sorter. Then skilled stone workers sort them and hand feed them into expensive diamond blades saw where they're angled just right to get the best possible face, producing a perfect stone building rock.

When it's installed you can't tell that it's only the face of a stone.

Homeowner Kim Cunningham from Moncton, New Brunswick went with Cut River Rock for her home. And she's glad she did.

"I must say that I love the outside," says Cunningham. "I dreamed of how it would look and it's all come together."

About Cutriverock.com: Cutriverock.com pioneered the process of cutting River Rock to make the stones less bulky and quicker to place. Cut River Rock is not fake or manufactured. It's not an artificial rock. It's real River Rock.

Web site: http://www.Cutriverrock.com


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The look is rich but homeowners who want real stone don't need to be. A Canadian company makes it affordable.


 
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