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Looking to get more out of your stone, gravel, or landscape materials? Whether you're a contractor laying flagstone patios or a homeowner building a fire pit for the first time, the Big Tex Stone Knowledge Base is here to help.

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How Much Crushed Granite to Order for Your Fort Worth, TX Project

The most common question at our counter starts the same way: how much crushed granite do I need? Homeowners in Fort Worth, TX arrive with a length, a width and a clear picture of the finished look, and the material gets quoted by the ton. Turning that footprint into a number a loader operator can fill takes two steps, and both are easy to get wrong.

For over 20 years Big Tex Stone has supplied contractors and homeowners with stone, and our yard on Old Hemphill Road in Fort Worth loads orders Monday through Saturday.

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Lueders Stone in Fort Worth, TX: How to Spec Grade, Cut and Thickness Before You Order

Lueders stone reaches our Fort Worth, TX yard in more than one grade, more than one cut and more than one thickness, and those three lines on an order decide most of what happens on site. A buyer at the pallets picks a color range, a piece height and a slab thickness at once, and each choice moves the tonnage. 

Big Tex Stone stocks material sourced from across the U.S. and Mexico, and Lueders limestone sits in our yard in three chopped grades and four slab colors. Settling that spec at the order desk keeps a load of the wrong height off the job.

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