It looks beautiful Susie!

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looks good I guess mine need beat up a bit.

It works!! Flagstone & granite are both very expensive, your neighbors will think you are rich!! Jan

I love that! I saw that suggested somewhere else but DH didn't want to hear about hauling 1/2 ton of granite pieces home from our last trip thru the city. Can't blame him, the truck was full of my YS finds anyhow!

Are you planning to plant thyme or some other ground cover between the stones?

lucky, I am open to suggestions on what to plant in the cracks here in Dallas TX area. The area gets some sprinkles from the pond but will dry out when the pond is turned off.

Granite as a full piece is too slippery (when wet) to use. When you bust them up and intermingle them it seems to work well. My little Yorkie dog always finds a piece of the granite to lay on to keep himself cooled off.

Thank you for your encouragements!!!!

Great idea! Love the granite!!

did you really get it out of a dumpster? I would be so afraid of getting caught.

Susie, I am completely unfamiliar with your much warmer zone. Maybe thyme doesn't grow there altho it's a pretty dry plant. I also like ajuga as a ground cover which can be walked on a bit. Might want to ask the people at another forum or do a google. I just thot that while the stone is gorgeous it would be set of by some ground cover.

We got a 3 1/2 ft by 2 ft. piece of granite off of Craigslist. I used it in the kitchen on top of a rolling cart, for over a year to roll pie crust and to keep loaf bread cool. It was really too big for the kitchen though.

Someone posted that when granite installers cut a granite countertop for a sink, they throw that oblong piece away. There was a lady on the web who had her husband bring everyone of those home from his construction sites and they did a patio. They turned theirs over, dull unpolished side up. I like mixing it with the flagstone so you can keep the beautiful polished side up.

I suppose one could ask the store manager about his installation trash but they are usually concerned with liability and wont verbally give you permission to check out their dumpster. It is best if you have family or neighbor who works in the field so they can allert you to come and pick it up. My sister mosaiced her kitchen counters and flower pots by going to the trash area of a local tile manufacturing company. They throw out the 'clinkers'. She and her sons would go and pick up box loads.

SuzzzieeRose....Thanks for this post!!! I went looking for someone who has a big saw to cut my BB's and found by accident a guy who does Granite installs....He couldn't help me but I remembered this post and asked what he did withthe scraps and he said throw them away or give them to someone who stops and asks.....Well of course I said I am asking............You won't believe what he gave me.....Take a look...........It took 5 trips to get it all in my pickup.....I can't wait to start my walk!!!!! Momma took the oval sink cut outs for stepping stones. {{gwi:153748}}Granite ScrapsMore Pics if you click......Close to 6 Tons.......no body had asked for any scraps for months....LOL He wanted me to take all so I did!

Shabby, what a haul you made. You were right, you're booked up with GJ stuff till 2011. At least. LOL.

hugs, Karen

woohoo!! We just did granite countertops a few months ago and have a whole slab of misc. pieces left..Now I have a project!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! What a great recyclers dream!!!! Ya'll just make sure you mix polished-side-up and some of them polished side down. I used flagstone and mixed in granite for reflective beauty! Just dont want the rain to make them slippery so make sure the foot is hitting some dirt, some rough stone, and some granite. We busted ours into the shape of flagstone. If you use the center "sink cut outs" as step stones I would take a saw and cut ridges across them for traction. Enjoy!!!

You are all so lucky to have found this granite! Sad to think it would otherwise be in a landfill. I'd sooo love to get some but there's no stone place near enough. DH would not want to haul this for 150 miles from the city! Altho I might run it past him again! LOL