Thirumala Granite

We have been here at 1/542, Candhichowk for a good while now. Khammam is where we do all our daily work with granite at Thirumala Granite. People usually come by the yard when they are building a new house or fixing up an old kitchen. It gets pretty dusty around this part of the street with all the cutting and polishing going on throughout the day. We have different slabs of stone sitting out in the open. Some of them are dark and plain, while others have more patterns. It is heavy stuff to move around. My brother and I mostly handle the heavy lifting ourselves. Sometimes the weather makes things slow down, especially when it rains hard and the yard gets all muddy. We try to keep things organized but with so much stone, it is a bit of a struggle. A lot of folks from around the neighborhood know where we are. We do not have a fancy office or anything like that. It is just the workshop and the stone stacks. We spend most of our mornings unloading trucks that come in. It takes a lot of time to get everything placed right so people can actually see what they are buying. Usually, someone walks in looking for a specific color they saw in a magazine. We just check what we have in the current stock. If it is not there, we tell them straight. There is no point in making things sound better than they are. We just deal with granite every day. It is hard work on the hands and back, but it is what we do here in Khammam. The traffic at Candhichowk can be a bit much in the evenings, so we usually try to get the big deliveries out as early as we can.