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ghostsinthemachine

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Tue Sep 19, 2017, 10:12 AM Sep 2017

I hate the tiles at the UN. [View all]

There's a jackass standing in front of them!

Seriously. I'm a tile man, stone Mason. Not a fan of green marble anyway (it's alive, you know?), but they should have laid it so the patter is continuos (bookmarking in the parlance). Just a horrible job, pisses me off every time I see it. I can figure out the pattern and see that it could be marked. If it couldn't, they shouldn't have used such a heavily veined marble, used a slab or planned to bookmark it by marking it at the quarry. (Smaller jobs like this on usually don't require this to be able to create a more singular piece).

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I hate the tiles at the UN. [View all] ghostsinthemachine Sep 2017 OP
Damnit sharp_stick Sep 2017 #1
Holy shit, TRump don't like em either! ghostsinthemachine Sep 2017 #2
Translate for laymen, please. brush Sep 2017 #3
Bookmarking ghostsinthemachine Sep 2017 #4
I sure wish I knew what you were talking about. Can you... LAS14 Sep 2017 #5
Here ghostsinthemachine Sep 2017 #6
Ah!! Thank you! nt LAS14 Sep 2017 #7
Oh, I see what you mean. mountain grammy Sep 2017 #14
I didn't know you were a stone mason! That is so neat! csziggy Sep 2017 #8
The green and red marbles are alive ghostsinthemachine Sep 2017 #10
Yeah - that is why we kept the green in the half bath csziggy Sep 2017 #12
I thought it was bookmatching TexasBushwhacker Sep 2017 #9
That's it and either way is okay ghostsinthemachine Sep 2017 #11
I'm with you though TexasBushwhacker Sep 2017 #15
Was it perhaps the style at the time? blogslut Sep 2017 #13
Nah ghostsinthemachine Sep 2017 #16
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