No. When Main Street Monuments quotes a job for you, it should be a complete price finished and installed. The only exception to this answer would be in the rare case a representative needs to investigate pricing on the cemetery foundation fees. In this case, the rep will tell you he or she will get back to you as soon as they can find this information.

Granite is quarried all over the world. Most of the granite we stock is quarried in North America. However, we have suppliers for virtually any stone you can name that still has an active quarry.

The making of a monument is a long process. Huge 20-ton blocks of granite are cut and blasted from quarries, some over 350 feet deep. Only about 20% of all granite lifted out of these quarries is good enough for memorials. The rest is discarded. The good blocks are then cut into slabs like loaves of bread using huge diamond-tipped saws. The slabs are polished on both sides and then cut or broken down into selected memorial shapes. Using hammer and chisel, skilled craftsmen then perform the final shaping. The blank polished memorials are then shipped to companies like ours who work with the family to determine the final design that will be sandblasted into the surface of the memorial.