Grace Marbles & Granites Pvt Limited

You can find us out on the highway, NH-8, in the Amberi area. It’s a long stretch of road where many stone yards are located. Our place is quite large because we have to store massive slabs of marble and granite. It’s a very dusty environment and the sun beats down on the yard all day. We spend a lot of time outside moving stones with the crane or showing people the different patterns in the rock. The office is just a small room with a couple of chairs and a lot of stone samples scattered on the floor. Everything is covered in a thin layer of white dust from the cutting and polishing. You can hear the sound of the trucks zooming by on the highway constantly. It’s not a quiet or clean job. We wear heavy boots because the ground is uneven and often wet from the water used on the saws. We don't have a fancy showroom; the slabs are just leaning against metal frames out in the open. Sometimes the rain makes the yard a bit of a muddy mess. We just work through it and keep the stones organized by color and type. It’s a lot of physical labor and dealing with the weather. People drive out here specifically to look at the blocks before they get loaded onto the big trailers. The fence around the yard is getting a bit rusty from the rain, but it still does the job of keeping things secure.