Remnant/Scrap—What’s The Difference?
From time to time we get calls from customers asking for information, or pricing on “scrap” material to fabricate a small bathroom vanity, granite furniture top, etc. I always correct them by saying, “you mean ‘remnant’ material right?” I don’t know why, but this bugs me. I know that a consumer probably doesn’t know the difference, so I always feel the need to explain it, so here goes…
- Scrap Material–Is waste material that we throw in a dumpster to be eventually recycled for roads, etc. It is usually smaller pieces, that would have no further value to us.
- Remnant Material—Is left over material from a full a slab. When we price a project, the consumer is only paying for the square footage used for their job, so we often have left over material, (remnants).Remnants are larger pieces that can hopefully be used for other upcoming jobs, or for smaller projects such as bathroom vanities, granite fireplace surrounds, granite bar tops, etc. They can also be used/matched in conjunction with another full slab to complete a granite countertop for a kitchen project, or used as a matching granite island, etc.
Hope this is helpful.
Thanks for reading!
Barb
Posted in Company, Granite on July 26th, 2007 by Barb | | 0 Comments
