Carrara Bianco 6×18" Italian Marble Tile $9.95SF.

Carrara Bianco 6x18 TileCarrara Bianco 6×18″ $9.95 a Square Foot available in Honed and Polished.

This is a new format size for 2015 added to our Carrara Bianco Collection of over 150 Mosaics, Tiles and Trims stocked in Georgia and shipped all over the USA. This size is our first large format multiple of three. We have 1×3″ Herringbone on a Mosaic in Honed and Polished for ...

Carrara from The Builder Depot = 100% Return on Investment

It is official – well HGTV seems to think so, remodeling with Cararra Venato or Carrara Bianco from The Builder Depot customers get a 100% return on the bathroom renovation.  Buying Carrara marble through us pays you!  For 70% off the retail cost plus the enjoyment of having a beautiful bathroom the return is well beyond 100%.  Want to add $20,000 to your net worth?  Read ...

Glass Subway Tiles – Gray Glass Tiles

Brilliant Glass Tile Collection

Charcoal Gray and Ocean Gray Glass 3x6

Brilliant glass tiles Charcoal Gray 3×6″ Subway Tile on the left and Ocean Gray 3×6″ on the right (both $9.95 square foot and Free Shipping

It has been since 2011 but this month The Builder Depot ...

Why the minimum order on Porcelain Tile?

There are only two ways to ship the product:

#1. Freight LTL. This is product placed on a pallet, collected at our loading dock and loaded with a pallet truck onto the UPS freight truck. It takes that truck to the local Atlanta Terminal and then splits up shipments sending them on another truck to a local terminal near you.  Then that local terminal will call to make an appointment for delivery on another truck with a lift-gate.

#2. UPS or FedEx Ground

#1. The rationale for the 40 Square Feet (SF) minimum order:  In short we need weight to stop the drivers picking up your order by hand and damaging it, shippers will pick up lighter shipments (the drivers) and squeeze them between other shipments, if there is a gap, if there is not a gap, they will still try and stand it up on an edge and then just let it fall back down ...

Free Samples or Not to be Free Samples? That is the Question.

Samples, samples, samples…  Free or not to be Free? That is indeed a great question!  There is no such thing as Free (lets just get that taken care of right away).  If a company is offering free samples then the people who actually purchase, the regular customers are paying for the free samples.  As the company simply has to add the cost of the samples back into the product sell price.

Everything is built into the product cost.  If a small company buys a private jet then they will need to charge $200.00SF for the tile.  Yes, that will not work.  Huge companies with lots of product can spread these costs over many SKU’s (individual products) so it is not noticeable, it becomes a smaller ...

Making contact with the shipper

Some of the advice here can help save a day in shipping:

You are probably here as you have questions about the ETA of your shipment and that is completely understandable, after all this is not a book that is being delivered. It is heavy and will require co-ordination.  See more here on what to expect with a freight delivery here.

In shipping terms we are the Consignor (The consignor is the person or business that originates the shipment. Also, known as the shipper) and you are the Consignee (The consignee is the individual or business that receives the freight being shipped.)

You may not know it but as the Consignee you have the power of authority over the shipment and only you (I think this is back from many decades ago, when people would call expensive shipments and say things like “oh by the way, we have changed he delivery address please send the million dollars worth of whisky here of course that was ...