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| - If you are looking for 3cm granite in the Pittsburgh area, there is a good chance you'll be directed to go to Monte Granite by your granite fabricator. If so, here are a few tips. 1). Bring a sample of your kitchen cabinets preferably a cabinet door. They have some cabinet doors available but you'll want to have your own there to make sure the colors look good together. 2). Check their hours before you make the trip. They are only opened after 5pm one night a week (Wednesday if I remember correctly) and they are fairly strict about these hours. If it's very close to 5pm, they won't pull out the slab for you to look at. This can be very frustrating if you left work early and drove 40 minutes to get there. Which brings me to number three. 3). They do not pull slabs out on the weekends. So, although you can go and browse on the weekends, there is no way to look at the full slab which I HIGHLY recommend you do as each slab has different inclusions and variants. Even if they tell you it's like a loaf of bread and granite slabs piled together are all the same, make sure you look at the pulled slabs. I changed my mind twice after looking at the full slab. 4). Get a babysitter. No children younger than 12 are permitted in the warehouse. This regulation in addition to their hours and not pulling slabs on the weekends makes it difficult for young families to choose their slabs. This is the reason for 4 instead of 5 stars. It can easily be remedied by extending hours or pulling slabs on weekends. 5). Don't expect to know how much your granite will cost. Only your granite fabricator can tell you that. You will get some sense of cost by looking at the letter on the granite but no actual prices. Mont marks each color with a letter from A to Z where A is the least expensive. The reason for the price difference is due to the availability of the color. More common and widely available colors are priced lower. Otherwise, youre getting the same product no matter the letter. The slabs are all 3cm. Although they have a wide variety (100+ colors), don't expect to see many A-C choices. Most choices seem to range from D-S. So, how much of a price difference is that? I can't say but for a basis of comparison, I chose a color that was marked K and it ended up being $71 a square foot including installation. Last, Mont does also have a smaller selection of marble, soapstone and lathered granite.
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