Choice Marble & Granite

You can find us over at Byrathi Jubilee Baug, not too far from Egada Nagar. If you come by, you’ll probably hear us before you see us. Cutting stone is a noisy business. Choice Marble & Granite is basically a big yard full of heavy slabs. There’s white marble, dark granite, and heaps of stone dust everywhere. We wear boots and old clothes because everything gets dirty pretty fast here. It’s heavy work, moving these pieces around, and you have to be careful not to chip the edges. We don't have a shiny gallery with spotlights. We just show people the actual slabs leaning against the walls. Some of them are really beautiful when you get the dust off with a bit of water. The guys are usually busy with the saws, so it can be hard to hear yourself talk sometimes. We’ve been in the Byrathi area for a while now. It’s a bit out of the way, but people find us when they’re building something new. We don't give people a big sales pitch. We just show them what we have in stock and tell them the price. The weather affects us a lot; when it rains, the yard gets muddy, but we keep working. It’s an honest way to make a living. We enjoy seeing a rough piece of rock turn into something smooth that someone will put in their home. It's hard work but it’s satisfying.