Quote Originally Posted by buadhai View Post
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I guess the problem is that even though I've lived here 18 months I have no idea where to "ask around" or who the "local stone merchant" might be. Ms. B has no ideas either.

I suspect that we'll end up going the Home Pro or Home Mart route since otherwise I don't even know where to begin.
you had the cojones to build a house, you should be able to build a counter

it is worth a fair bit of savings to try. i saved about half.